Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Nerd Sure to Make Nerds Feel Old
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Neil Gaiman recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first publication of his Sandman comic book. I think I just heard my knuckles creak as I typed that last sentence.
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huh. I'd never realized that I was born the year Sandman came out.
probably not helping you feel less old, huh Paul?
probably not helping you feel less old, huh Paul?
2
Well that's a relief. When I first saw that picture, I though you were going to say Al Lewis had died. Everything is fine in the world as long as we have Grandpa. What's that you say?
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I met Gaiman the day that Sandman #1 came out, at my local comic shop in MA. That same day, his first issue of Miracleman came out, taking over writing for Alan Moore. But I asked him instead to sign my much-read and loved copy of "Violent Cases" (with Dave McKean) and he agreed with me then that it was his best work. Sandman was a lot of fun, but I still think Violent Cases was his best.
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I;m 32 now, I went into my local cocal coimcs store to pick up a copy of the watchmen. I'm old. I still like the art from the original TMNT.
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Know what's been making me feel old lately? I was an adult during the entirety of the Clinton administration. When I think of the eight years of Bush, and then the eight years of Clinton before that, and when I think about how long ago Ronald Reagan was president, and when I see what gravity has been doing to my body when I wasn't looking, I feel old.
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I still love how Gaiman won the Best Short Fiction World Fantasy Award for an issue of Sandman and then they changed the rules the following year so "a comic book" could never win again.
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