Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (the 'MacKinnon' part was adopted as it was the middle name of his second wife, songwriter Amanda Palmer) is an award winning British comics author, novelist and screenwriter from East Grinstead who first broke into comics writing four installments of Tharg's Future Shocks for 2000AD. He later succeeded his friend Alan Moore as writer of Moore's revamped Marvelman series, Miracleman, by then being published by America's Eclipse Comics, and has gone on to a successful career in American comics working for various publishers including DC Comics and Marvel Comics, writing series' and graphic novels such as Black Orchid, The Books of Magic, Violent Cases, Signal to Noise, The Tragical Comedy of Mr Punch, the Eternals, Marvel: 1602, Angela and, most notably, the epic fantasy saga Sandman (in which he created the fan favourite character of Death, who went on to feature in her own limited series'). His novels include Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Stardust and American Gods, he wrote the TV series Neverwhere and its novelisation, and he has also written for the 21st Century version of Doctor Who. He has also written audio plays, and several of his novels and comics have been optioned for film treatment. He writes poetry, gives public readings of his work, and is a close friend of singer Tori Amos, a self confessed Sandman fan who has repeatedly included references to Gaiman in her songs. He no longer lives in East Grinstead.