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Great Big A DISTANT SOIL Update
It’s been awhile since I update anything on this page, not because I’ve abandoned the project, but because I often update elsewhere. Most of you are wondering when I’m going to get back to A Distant Soil. Naturally, I thought I’d have it finished by now, but I’d have been stupid not to accept a series of important projects that have been successful and fulfilling on every level, and are helping me to finance the year it is going to take to bring the book home. Currently, I am working on the graphic novel adaptation of Good Omens, the bestselling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It ended up…
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Neil Gaiman’s CHIVALRY Makes Washington Post Best Graphic Novels of 2022 Top Ten list, Shortlisted for Excelsior Award
We’re so happy to be included on this amazing list of Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2022 at the Washington Post! Story by Neil Gaiman, adaptation and art by Colleen Doran, published in the USA by Dark Horse Comics and by Headline Books in the UK. We’re also incredibly thrilled and honored that Chivalry is shortlisted for the Excelsior Award, to be decided by the children of hundreds of schools in the UK. What an honor to be included with so many other wonderful books. We hope you’ll check them out!
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Neil Gaiman Writes. Colleen Doran Adapts.
Written by Neil Gaiman. Art and Adaptation by Colleen Doran. Letters by Todd Klein (with Colleen Doran on Chivalry). Published by Dark Horse Comics in the USA and Headline Books in the UK. Distributed by Penguin/Random House. Available at all major comic book shops and all major bookstores. Target, Walmart, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, BooksAMillion, Hudson, IndieBound. Snow, Glass, Apples, and Troll Bridge: intended for adult readers. Chivalry: for all ages. Find a store at the Penguin/Random House website.
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Guardian Live Online with Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
From the Guardian UK Website: “Award-winning writer and illustrator duo Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran will introduce their new graphic novel, Chivalry. Chivalry is an adaptation of a short story by Neil Gaiman, in which an elderly widow, Mrs Whitaker, unknowingly buys the Holy Grail in a charity shop – an event that launches her into an epic world of adventure with a handsome young knight who goes by the name of Galaad. In a collaboration that brings to life illustrative styles from the Golden Age, and taking influence from the Illuminated Manuscripts, Chivalry is a charming and witty tale about taking risks, and finding friendship in unlikely places.” Gaiman…
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Snow Glass Apples Wins Bram Stoker Award, Nominated for Two Ringo Awards, and Society of Illustrators Exhibit.
I do most of my posting at my Patreon these days, so I completely forgot to add some cool news here. I am very happy to announce that in addition to the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium, Neil Gaiman’s Snow Glass Apples has received the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel from the Horror Writers Association. I grant this the Coolest Looking Award Ever Award. And here’s the Eisner. Nice Bookends! It’s surprisingly heavy. I was nominated for Best Penciler/Inker at the Eisners as well, and also received a nomination from the National Cartoonist Society for the Silver Reuben for Best Graphic…
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Neil Gaiman’s SNOW, GLASS, APPLES Wins 2020 Eisner Award
I’m very happy to announce that the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples which I was honored to do for our publisher Dark Horse Comics has won the 2020 Eisner for Best Adaptation from Another Medium. I was also nominated for the Eisner for Best Penciler/Inker, but I’m extremely grateful for our Adaptation category win. So many great books and creators received nominations, and we are honored to be among them. You can read more about them here. I’m afraid I’ve had to cut back on my mail order operation due to my workload, but you can buy the book at all major bookstores, or ask for it at…
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Read Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran’s THE CLOCK #1 for FREE from TOP COW.
Follow the link and have a free read of our dystopian, pandemic sci-fi thriller. When we created it we really didn’t expect to be living in the middle of one. Who knew. Please feel free to share.
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Travel with Tezuka Productions
The hardcover edition of the graphic novel adaptation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast which I drew for the long-defunct Disney Comics. I bought this at the Books Kinokuniya store in Tokyo, and Takayuki Matsutani, president of Tezuka Productions, bought one for his daughter as well, since she was a Disney fan. In this picture, Jeff Smith, creator of BONE and RASL, and his wife/manager Vijaya Iyer and me (in the hat) pose in front of the Tezuka Productions entrance. Here is Takayuki Matsutani of Tezuka Productions, Fred Schodt, author of MANGA! MANGA! The world of Japanese Comics, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist Denys Cowan, and…
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Hokusai Manga Lecture
Some years back, I lectured at the Smithsonian Institution on Hokusai and manga. Fred Schodt, author of Manga! Manga! kindly recommended me as Artist In Residence. My parents saved the poster and had it framed for me for Christmas. Imagine my surprise! Apparently, they saved other props from the event, but the framer lost them. Bad framer.
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Hal Foster: It’s never too late to be great.
Whipped this up. Hope it is inspiration for you.