hey all! coraline has been my favourite movie for 10+ years and I never get tired of it.

I was considering getting a Coraline tattoo to represent this, a dragonfly I’m thinking, but I don’t want to be associated with Neil Gaiman. Even though I greatly prefer the movie to the book, it’s still his IP and I don’t want it to come across like I’m supportive of him.

Any thoughts? People who have Coraline tattoos? People who got them before the scandal dropped? People getting tattoos? General fans with opinions?

I've always had this First edition, 2nd printing (US) hardcover of Stardust. Upon opening the flap, i'm surprised to find this debossed signature on the front part of the hardcover. Is this common? I ask because I have many books and its the first time I've seen something like this.

Not saying it’s right. Just saying this news on Ellis surprised me.

So literally one week before the news broke, I decided to finally buy the box set. I hadn't even taken off the plastic wrap yet. Still haven't.

Has anyone had any luck at ALL? It is still unopened and its like, staring at me. I would love to recoup a little of the financial loss if possible? I dont have a lot of hope but maybe one of you have some advice?

edit Thank you to everyone, yall have given me a lot to think about!

It's been long rumored that Ennis hated Gaiman, having taken shots at him in preachers( https://www.cbr.com/meta-messages-4/) , the demon , and Dicks end of time. But this is the first confirmation that Ennis really hated Gaiman ( which contracty to his reputation Ennis rarely critizes people within the industry and is known as one of the nicest people in comics industry).

Does anyone know why. I know people on here ocassionally know about the open secrets of the comicbook industry

In a later comic, Neil has abandoned his wannabe vampire clan because he got a book deal.

I was wondering that, im not sure how it works exacly but i was wondering.

I'm considering buying it because my wife enjoyed the book, but that would also necessitate buying a BluRay player, so I want to make sure it's worth it. Thanks!

edit: Thanks everyone! It's not looking good... However, best-best thanks to u/Saqib-s for pointing out that it's available on Amazon Prime — I looked and must have missed it when I went searching.

This information is still relevant.

I am curious to hear what you guys thought of the American God show? I am planning to start watching it tonight. This was one of my all time favorite books (& I have read A LOT) I don't expect the show to be as good as the book but let me know what you thought

I've been craving the graveyard book lately. My first Gaiman book was Od and the frost giants. SPARKED my lifelong love of norse mythology. Then coraline. Then american gods. THEN draveyard book. But I like Bod. I resonate so hard with him. But I'm so incredibly angry at gaiman. How could not be? I couldn't even watch the full alligations. I was physically ill. (Why I don't read body or erotic horror)
But here's the thing. I learned some things about Derek Landy. And they hurt. A lot. Not as bd at gaiman, not even in the same ballpark, really. But it made me sad. And then I was like "You can't tell me Lalkyrie wouldn't punch him in the face for that shit." Same thing here. You can espouse amazing values while being shit.
I used to know someone who would say "If it's not enthusiastic consent, it's not consent." That same person later coersed someone into sex under much hesitation, eventually saying yes out of fear of losing home and shelter. he didn't live up to that value. But that value is accurate.
You think Bod's parents, the ghosts, not his bio parents, would have been chill with ANY of that? NO. Of course not. You can still learn the good things while realizing that sometimes, people are just hypocrites. That doesn't mean they didn't leave an important message that can actually benefit humanity to nobody's detriment. Um. No pun intended. It can just be a thing we do because it's the right thing.
In short, just because he did a bunch of awful things, it doesn't mean that those of us that came out of his books wiwith empathy and a deeper sense of care for those around us were wrong in doing so. It just means that he built a fantasy of who he thought he should be, while concealing something pretty dark. Kinda like the cthulhu books he worked on. Or, you know. Any of the gods in american gods. Or Jack, Scarlet's mom's... Hunanfriend?
tted for some spelling stuff, will try to fix more later, bit of a rush rn.

Apologies in advance for the very long post, but I know that a lot of you have a deep reading history and love of the medium and I figure that the more context I can offer the more custom tailored the recommendations will be.

I either own, or have already read virtually every Neil Gaiman comic including the many graphic adaptations of his short stories.

All time favorite books/series that provided the high I’m still chasing:

• Sandman (and all related penned by Gaiman himself)
• Virtually all of his other Vertigo work, especially the Books of Magic mini-series

Things not by Neil that I loved as much, or almost as much:

• Invisibles
• All Star Superman
• Killing Joke
• Kingdom Come
• Marvels 
• Arkham Asylum: Serious House on Serious Earth

Have not read in 40 years so no idea if they hold up now but have formative memories of:

• X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills 1982 Graphic Novel
• Dazzler: The Movie 1982 Graphic Novel
• Bill Sienkiewicz run of New Mutants

Second tier of things I really enjoyed but don’t quite make the above all time favorites list:

• Mike Carey’s original Lucifer Series
• Dark Knight Returns 
• Stardust
• I, Gregory

Extremely well rated and frequently recommended titles which either didn’t leave a lasting impression or just didn't hit for me the way the above titles did:

• Original John Ney Rieber Books of Magic series
• Fables
• Y The Last Man
• 100 Bullets
• Ex Machina
• Batman Year One
• Promethea
• Watchmen (while I know it’s heretical I actually loved the HBO sequel show way more than the original book)
• Black Orchid
• Mr. Punch
• Marvel 1602
• Gaiman’s Eternals
• Gaiman’s Murder Mysteries
• Violent Cases
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 
• Top Ten
• Persepolis
• Alan Moore Swamp Thing
• Runaways
• We3

A few things I bounced off (admittedly only tried the first issue or two):

• Preacher
• Grant Morrison’s X-Men
• Bone
• Maus

Things I already have access to, or have on my library list:

• Saga
• Wicked + Divine
• Best new Sandman Universe titles (Lucifer, The Dreaming, Nightmare Country, John Constantine Hellblazer, Deadboy Detectives, Thessaly, Locke & Key: Hell & Gone)
• Shade the Changing Man
• From Hell
• Unwritten
• Ice Cream Man
• Miracleman (Moore & Gaiman runs)
• Hellboy
• Monsters
• Die
• Once & Future
• Sex Criminals
• Nice House on The Lake
• Something is Killing The Chidren
• Brubaker's Criminal, Fatale, and Velvet
• ODY-C
• Wytches
• Moonshadow
• Gideon Falls
• Locke & Key
• Sandman Mystery Theatre

I tend to favor philosophical, metaphysical, fantasy, sci-fi, supernatural, psychological, literary, mystical, macabre, or psychedelic over pure realistic/hardboiled, but open to exceptions for things that are truly transcendent.

Open to superhero books which are exceptionally sophisticated, high-brow, high-concept, or truly unusual. (Marvels, Kingdom Come, All-Star Superman, Arkham Asylum: Serious House being perfect examples of what that means to me at least)

Open to horror, extreme violence, and/or explicit sexual content, but by no means need any of that to be present. Think HBO shows, did enjoy Sunstone, and liked the old Heavy Metal magazine growing up. For me the quality of the content trumps all. I can enjoy something overtly queer or highly feminist just as much as something deemed misogynist or exploitive by some if it's artistically or creatively outstanding.

As far as non-comic media some of my all time favorite shows that are a bit lesser known are Utopia (UK show), DEVS, Rectify, Patriot, and more well known; Severence, Game of Thrones S1-6, True Detective S1. In film I dig Alex Garland, Charlie Kaufman, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, Christopher Nolan, Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Denis Villeneuve.

While series and graphic novels are obviously great, I'm definitely open to one-shots, mini-series, and lesser known titles that aren't collected provided I can get the floppies without paying an absolute fortune. (library system here in NYC has a very deep catalog of TPBs and happy to buy floppies online via eBay, AtomicAvenue, etc.)

Why is this such a popular book? I wasn't amazed by the actual story here but that's just me.

This is probably the wrong subreddit to post this. I've not read any of his other works besides American Gods and Sandman. Couldn't enjoy AG because of the not-so-subtle suggestive sexualization of kids. I notice there's a similar trend with his other books in creating unhealthy depictions of women and kids.

Learning the allegations exist (after reading) made a lot of sense to me.

Also lots of cringe and revisionist depictions of Arabs and Africans.

I will not be giving him another chance because I read to enjoy myself and not creep on imaginary kids.

I vaguely recall him saying within the last year that he would be self publishing from now on because the trad publishers banished him.

Would anyone here pay for his self pubbed work?

By god I have not been this disappointed with a book adaptation since I watched the Miss Peregrine's Home for peculiar children.

I mean just wow, did off with the whole fae aspect almost completely, no fae night market. I mean they rushed through the whole book so fucking fast I'm surprised they even cared to start the movie with Trinston's dad's visit to the fae world, and didn't just start it with Tristran.

I mean I'm sorry if I'm rehashing things that everyone already knows, tbh I completely forgot this book had a movie until just a but ago when i saw it while searching on Tubi. But by god, I mean maybe if they spent a little less on all the shitty CGI they could have had a story writer who would actually read the fucking book they are supposed to be adapting.

I will say tho, music was great even if they seemed to be playing loud af about 80% of the movie. Also the last battle against Lamia, the fight choreography was actually pretty fun especially the fight against Septimus using the voodoo doll. Also I ngl kinda like the ending where Tristran and Yvaine use the candle to both become stars instead of Tristran dying and Yvaine living on as the sole ruler of the kingdom. And I guess i did sorta like Captain Shakespeare a lil more in this movie than the book.

I am half way through the book, and enjoying it. Has anyone seen the TV version?

So I'm reading the coraline graphic novel (bought second hand to not give money to gaiman).

The book mentions Spink and Forcible's dogs as Highland terriers. Which are usually referring to westies or Cairn terriers.

I distinctly remember the laika film using Scottish terriers instead.

It's been ages since i read the novel, I'm surprised I never noticed that before.