The narrator of this piece speaks through a mobile white mask with very abstracted features, strikingly reminiscent of a Guy Fawkes mask. But the images behind him suggest something a little darker. For the story's masked narrator, it's a perfect world. No art, no plays, no books, no cultural referents to anything gay, lesbian, transsexual or remotely queer. This story uses scathing sarcasm to present a future without homosexual influences. the story is a response to a piece British legislation that had a decidedly anti-homosexual flavor. H., edited by Alan Moore, and was recently reprinted in the GLBT anthology, The Future is Queer edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel. It originally appeared in 1988, in the comic anthology A. Our next piece isn't just words on a page - it's a sequential art story, the short fiction love child of a comic strip and a graphic novel. Other writing credits include the graphic novels Alice in Sunderland and Grandville. He is the creator of the comic The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, and he's worked as an artist on books such as Hellblazer, Sandman, Fables, and Batman. His latest book is a hardcover edition of his poem, Instructions, illustrated by Charles Vess.īryan Talbot is a comics writer and artist. Most of Gaiman's short work has been collected in the volumes Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things, and M is for Magic.
In addition to his novel-writing, Gaiman is also the writer of the popular Sandman comic book series. Other novels include American Gods, Coraline, Neverwhere, and Anansi Boys, among many others. Neil Gaiman's most recent novel, the international bestseller The Graveyard Book, won the prestigious Newbery Medal, given to great works of children's literature.
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