92nd St Y
1395 Lexington Ave
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Neil Gaiman, Photo: Kimberly Butler
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Sunday Nov 9, 2008 (7:30pm)
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$27
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Time flies when you're being prolific as hell. Best-selling author Neil Gaiman has been consistently delivering mind-bending novels, screenplays, comics, and children's books at such a regular pace, fans might not even realize two decades have passed since the debut of his game-changing Sandman. Following in the footsteps of his hero Alan Moore, Gaiman re-invented comic books in a dark literary vein with the series, opening up an entirely new mythology in the process. While his work tends other mediums these days — his long-awaited Graveyard Book was with us just in time for Halloween — it was Sandman that elevated Gaiman to a level where he could pick and choose his projects as he pleases. Tonight, he looks back on that groundbreaking work in conversation with Chip Kidd.
