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Neil Gaiman is best known for the comic series The Sandman, which ran from January 1989 to March 1996, and for novels including American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), and The Graveyard Book (2008). The Graveyard Book won both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal, making Gaiman the first author to receive both prizes for the same work.
Gaiman has won Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery Medal and Carnegie Medal. The Graveyard Book won both the 2009 Newbery Medal and the 2010 Carnegie Medal, making him the first author to win both for a single work. The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year at the British National Book Awards in 2013.
Beginning in July 2024, five women accused Gaiman of sexual assault and abuse, all interviewed on the Tortoise Media podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. Allegations included those from Scarlett Pavlovich, a former nanny; Caroline Wallner, a former tenant; and writer Julia Hobsbawm, who described an incident in 1986. Gaiman has denied engaging in non-consensual sexual activity.
Yes. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling in February 2004, granting Gaiman joint ownership of the Spawn characters Angela, Cogliostro, and Medieval Spawn, which he had created in issue No. 9 of Spawn in 1993. Judge John C. Shabaz ruled that the contributions of Gaiman and Todd McFarlane were "quite equal" and that the characters were joint works.
Gaiman's first professional short story publication was "Featherquest", a fantasy story published in Imagine magazine in May 1984. That same year he wrote a biography of the band Duran Duran and co-edited the quotation anthology Ghastly Beyond Belief with Kim Newman, whose first edition sold out quickly.
The Sandman became one of DC Comics' top-selling titles, outselling even Batman and Superman. Executive Paul Levitz noted it was the first extraordinary success as a series of graphic novel collections, drawing new readers to comics, particularly young women on college campuses. The series ran 75 issues from January 1989 to March 1996 and has been collected into 12 volumes that remain in print.