Last night I participated in a lecture by the legendary Neil Gaiman, in the annual Sci-Fi conference of Israel, Icon 2006. To tell you the truth, this conference is a real Geek-Land show, but this is a subject for a separate post... anyway I came in to see and hear Gaiman, and I was not disappointed.
If you had a chance to take a look at my Library you would understand how important this creator is to me. If you don't know who Neil Gaiman is, you should get to know him right away - a writer of prose novels, graphic novels (comics), screenplays and audio-books, and the creator of the monumental Sandman series.
I have been reading Gaiman for years and when I heard he will be the guest of honor in this conference I phoned in and got tickets to some of his lectures.
Last night the theme was "transferring the narative among different media types" - basically, what are the processes and pressures that a creation goes through when it is being translated from a prose book to a movie or a radio play, how a series transforms into a book and vice versa, and how a creator decides which work will be created as a graphic novel, which as a full scape book etc.
Since gaiman has been creating in so many different media, he had some intelligible yet funny stories to tell, and this guy can sure hold an audience. Some cool jokes about the big Holiwood Studio Sharks really got me laughing my socks off.
I am planning to go on thursday to a reading event, in which Neil Gaiman will be reading select chapters from some of his books, and he also promised a first exposure of a completely new short story.
Stay tuned...
