Gaiman writes both children and adult books. It is the comic book he is most famous for and the series has won every major industry award, including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch and The Observer. Gaiman worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her 'other mother' and her 'other father'-people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin. people who pronounce her name correctly (not 'Caroline'), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown 'recipes'), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.

Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. And it is the 14th door that-sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks-opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. But with a little rain she becomes bored-so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ('We trod the boards, luvvy') and the mustachioed old man under the roof (''The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'') Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house-a house so huge that other people live in it, too.

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