Just over a week ago I attended 'Graphic', a convention run by the Sydney Opera House. Neil Gaiman was present.
For those of you who weren't lucky enough to attend,
here's a video of the reading Neil did on the Saturday night. His reading voice is just divine, but don't take my word for it. Check out the video.
I attended a panel discussion with Neil, Shaun Tan and Eddie Campbell the following day, and got to ask Neil a question I've been pondering a while. It was a wonderful weekend. =D
Now I'm back to study, and have found myself quite motivated to write by
this rather old TIME interview of Neil and Joss Whedon (by none other than Lev Grossman).
In some unrelated thoughts, I've been thinking about how having an ereader changes my reading experience. Just this morning, a friend mentioned that he'd found an underlined sentence in a book I've loaned him. I've always been very aware of books as physical objects. I don't just read them, I use them. I love the portability of ebooks, but I do occasionally miss the ability to mark a page with a ticket stub or write my thoughts in the margins. And
voila, I logged onto one of my favourite blogs today and found
this link, in which Sam Jordison discusses books-as-archives.
