Neil Gaiman

SNOOCHIE BOOCHIES

Jay and Silent Bob 
are now cartoons

Celebrate Ray Bradbury's Birthday on Wednesday, August 22

Editors Sam Weller and Mort Castle read from Shadow Show, a new short story anthology inspired by the author's life.

Neil Gaiman, 7, Interviewed About Scientology by the BBC in 1968

Former Scientologist Patty Moher was going through her collection of old church magazines and other materials when she spotted something pretty remarkable. I visited her this weekend at a gathering of other ex-Scientologists and Scientology researchers, and several of us marveled at her find. It w ... More >>

Scientology Plays Denver's Police Chief Like a Violin

We recently brought you footage of Sacramento's mayor, former NBA player Kevin Johnson, gushing about Scientology at the opening of an "Ideal Org" in that city. Since that fancy new building opened in California's capital, additional celebrations have occurred in places like Orange County and Denve ... More >>

Amanda Palmer Dramatically Answers Questions About Her Connection to Scientology

A few weeks ago, we noted that Amanda Palmer -- the musician who performs as a solo act and as one half of the Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn -- made a rather dramatic appearance at Kate Bornstein's book party, held at Dixon Place. Right about that same time, Palmer was also making news for taking ... More >>

Amanda Palmer Loved Kate Bornstein's Memoir So Much, She Crashed the Book Party

Tuesday night, we were invited to play a small part in Kate Bornstein's book party at the experimental theater Dixon Place, to celebrate the release of her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger. Earlier that day, our cover story about Kate had popped up on the website, and the print version of this ... More >>

An Impromptu Interview With Courtney Love On The Occasion Of Her Debut Art Show

Curiosity led us early Tuesday evening toward Fred Torres Gallery in Chelsea. Courtney Love, visual artist? That sort of makes sense. Given Love's unpredictable reputation, we were not expecting to see her at the press preview for her debut art show, "And She's Not Even Pretty," let alone have a sit ... More >>

COMICS UNBOUND

MOCCA Fest turns 10

Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Inspires Us

​Doug Quint handing out a Big Gay cone, way back in 2009 As you might have suspected, Fork in the Road owes a debt to the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck when it comes to selecting the name for this week's pop-up food blog, the Big Gay Food Blog. (In turn, we can't help suspecting that the BGICT's D ... More >>

GEEK MYTHOLOGY

Neil Gaiman celebrates the 10th anniversary of American Gods

Download: Tombs' Skin-Crawlingly Psychedelic "Vermillion"

​Brooklyn's blackened mushmakers Tombs make expansive, transcendent, sun-scorched heavy metal that sounds like a jet engine blast of glorious, heart-warming misery. Equal parts the icegaze churn of classic Ulver, the skydiving sludge of Godflesh and the hypnotic cycles of Neurosi, the exact sp ... More >>

Whining Fans Take to the Stand in The People vs. George Lucas

The Ten Best Musician/Comic Artist Friendships

Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>

Connie Willis Invades Wartime Britain

Blackout and All Clear create some wrinkles in time

Posts of the Week

And here we are on yet another Friday afternoon, pausing briefly before the onset of the weekend to look back on the week that was ... We ranked Our 10 Best Cookies. At Whole Foods' fish counter, adventures in unsustainable seafood. The 10 easy rules of the Sietsema Weight Loss System.

Chatting With The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck's Doug Quint: Keeping Cool, Neil Gaiman, and a New Golden Girls-Inspired Flavor

Donny TsangDoug Quint plies his wares.​Yesterday, we spoke with Doug Quint, the endlessly amiable co-proprietor of the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. Today, our conversation continues, as Quint enlightens us about staying cool, Neil Gaiman's ice cream cone, and his newest Golden Girls-inspired creat ... More >>

Vampires, Fairies, and Succubi: Inside the Shapeshifting Mind of Laurell K. Hamilton

Free Will Astrology: March 24-30, 2010

Kevin Smith Is Too Fat To Fly Southwest Air

Hey @SouthwestAir! Look how fat I am on your plane! Quick! Throw me off!​Here in New York, the hot weight news is Kelly Osborne, who is not fat. In the rest of the country, it's director Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob), who is. Smith boarded a Southwest Airlines flight in Oakland yesterday evenin ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​Award-winning author Neil Gaiman narrating Peter and the Wolf for The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, in his first appearance as an engaged person. Saturday at 7, at the World Financial Center, for free.

One Ring Zero Makes Ingredients Sing. Literally.

​Like any good chef, One Ring Zero partners well-honed technique with unconventional inspiration. The brainchild of Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, the band entered the cultural consciousness in 2004 with As Smart As We Are, an album featuring lyrics written by the likes of Margaret Atwood, Ri ... More >>

Other Mother's Day

Greenspan and Merritt's Coraline Does Gaiman Proud

This Week's Voice: Dirty Projectors, Sonic Youth's The Eternal, Coppola's Tetro, Sigmar Polke, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

Vincent Gallo in Tetro In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla testifies to the alternating agony and ecstasy of Brooklyn's own art-rock lobsters, the Dirty Projectors. Cristina Black talks with downtown ingenue Regina Spektor. Dan Weiss on Sonic Youth's newest, The Eternal. Don ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Afrobeat, Modernist Jazz, and the Steadily Improving Amanda Palmer

The Daily News reports that tonight's Femi Kuti gig has been cancelled. But if you can't delay your fix, the Knitting Factory's New York AfroBeat Festival will otherwise continue as planned. Catch clarinetist Oran Etkin's free-form jazz at the early show, or Wunmigirl's African breakbeats late. D ... More >>

MURDER HE WROTE

Neil Gaiman explains how Amanda Palmer died

Stephin Merritt and David Greenspan Conjure an Unusual Tuner for Coraline

Cue the crazy piano!

This Week's Voice: Ciara and Chrisette Michelle, Bob Dylan, Outrage, Ben Greenman's Please Step Back, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla takes a trip to the r&b salt mines with Ciara and Chrisette Michelle. Edd Hurt on Bob Dylan's Together Through Life, during most of which Dylan apparently carries a gun. Justin Farrar laments the end of USA Is a Monster. Brad Cohan anticipa ... More >>

STRIP SHOW

International stars of the graphic novel tell all

THE MIGHTY PEN

The annual fest for lit lovers returns

Coraline in Wonderland

Things are not as they seem in Henry Selick's stunning stop-motion fairy tale

ENTER SANDMAN

Neil Gaiman gives you a nerd-gasm

Interview: Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt

Welcome to New York Comic Con

S-F truants, Guillermo del Toro, and ReBoot's dirty secret

Friday

CARTOON CENTRAL

So many comic books, only three days

Move Along, Kids

Stardust

America's Next Top Supernovel

Granta once again takes bets on the nation's young literary talent

Hope Floats

Wet hot American bummer: Chris Adrian's post-flood Magic Mountain

Letters

Cracked Mirror

Shallow subgenre's latest has a knack for cubist creatures, but favors flash over thought

Letters

Do You Believe in Magic?

Clarke's debut is a magnum opus full of faeries, phantom fleets, footnotes, and friendship

Friends in Smart Places

It's a steady job but they want to hire a paperback writer

Re-enter Sandman

Fantasist Neil Gaiman Returns to the Graphic-Novel Series That Made Him Famous

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Evil

Horror Lit Finds Its Voice After 9-11

Down-and-Out Deities

Occult Classic

The Gothic Revival