Notices by Neil Gaiman (neilhimself@mastodon.social)

I wrote a blog entry about my return to the role of Charles Dickens, for the first time in a decade, at https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2023/10/for-two-nights-only-christmas-carol.html
NYC's TOWN HALL, Dec 18th and 19th. Tickets go on sale this Friday.

Come and see me in Newark on the 3rd of December. It's going to be fun. I will read things and answer questions too. Sun, 12/03/23 @ 3:00PM

https://www.njpac.org/event/neil-gaiman/

From Tumblr. I might as well post it myself...

I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

Back when I was working on the board of the CBLDF I got very used to the idea of material for adults being challenged by people who thought comics were for children. The idea of books aimed at children being challenged just because they had positive black characters was unimaginable. The world's changed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/08/jerry-craft-new-kid-school-trip-book-ban/

May you, whoever you are, have a life like Rachel's, one that changes things for people, a life where you follow your star and leave a more interesting world behind you. And may you, like Rachel, never lose your sense of humour.

Here's the Guardian Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/08/rachel-pollack-trans-activist-and-comic-book-writer-dies-aged-77?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

It's a podcast to fall asleep to. John Moe interviews people on subjects they can be dull about and witter on endlessly. Will me droning on about bagel-making, beekeeping and water kefir grains put you to sleep? Are Mastodon folk the kind who will listen to the end?

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sleeping-with-celebrities/neil-gaiman-will-not-name-his-sourdough-starter/

My friend the brilliant author Rachel Pollack is coming to the end of her life. She won the Nebula, World Fantasy and Arthur C Clarke awards. She is a world renowned expert on Tarot, and her books on Tarot are still regarded as the good standard. She created the first trans superhero, in Doom Patrol in '93. I will miss her very much when she goes. I am writing this at the request of her wife Zoe, to let her friends know that the end is soon, and to let the obituarists know too.

Night and the stars.

I've been photographing the night sky with my Pixel 6 Pro trying to find an eerie space where the ground and the sky meet...
Here are a few from last night.

Finally a starry night here on Waiheke. I took a few photographs, using a Pixel 6 and a tissue box as a makeshift tripod.

There were three men came out of the West
Three kings both great and high
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon must die.

They took a tank and ran him down
With bullets in his head
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon was dead

But when the Spring came kindly on
And showers began to fall
John Mastodon got up again
And did surprise them all...

Forgot to do alt text. Three photographs of men in their late fifties wearing black. The one with a beard is holding a puppet of Geppetto.

I had the honour of interviewing Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson about their beautiful and brilliant Pinocchio last night. It's on Netflix. If you get the chance to see it on the big screen, you must.

Staged series 3 is happening and I for one welcome the return of our Welsh and Scottish overlords and their English and Swedish overladies.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/7086/staged-series-3-to-launch-on-britbox/

@Gargron if it was me, sorry.

I'm here. It's me. Magic!

The (green-ticked) Neil Gaiman

Hullo. So this is Mastodon, eh? Well, I'm here. And to celebrate, here's a photo I took yesterday in Kingston NY of Good Omens director Douglas directing An Unnamed Actor (on the other side of the glass) in Episode 2 of Good Omens Season 2 (Coming Next Summer).