Can you name the works of Neil Gaiman?

Year	Title	Medium
1987		Comic
1988		Non-fiction book
1988		Comic
1989-1996		Comic
1990		Novel (w/Terry Pratchett)
1992		Comic
1993		Short story collection
1994		Comic
1994		Comic
1994		Comic
1994-1995		Comic
1996		Novel/TV series
1997		Comic
1997		Picture book
1997-1998		Illustrated novel
1998		Short story collection
1999		Illustrated novel
1999		Comic
2000		Comic
2001		Novel

Year	Title	Medium
2001		Comic
2002		Novel
2002		Novel (w/Gene Wolfe)
2002		Miscellany
2003		Picture book
2003		Comic
2003		Comic
2003		Short film
2005		Novel
2005		Film
2006		Short story collection
2006		Comic
2007		Short story collection
2007		Novel (w/Michael Reaves)
2007		Film (w/Roger Avary)
2008		Novel
2008		Novel
2009		Film
2009		Comic
2010		Film

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Works of Neil Gaiman Quiz

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	MRL:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 06:50 GMT		9 points
	It appears that "The Books of Magic" is missing; it's one of his comic book miniseries.

	jessek:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 06:52 GMT		7 points
	As is his run on Miracleman.

	rahv:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 09:13 GMT		6 points
	also missing are "the dangerous alphabet" (picture book with gris grimly) and "odd and the frost giants" (maybe just in the UK).

	micah:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 GMT		2 points
	Also the film of "Stardust" and the Babylon 5 episode "the day of the dead", assuming that counts...

	rahv:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 13:04 GMT		1 point
	gaiman was just executive producer on the "stardust"-movie. "day of the dead" might count, though. if "mirrormask" counts, to b5 episode should, too.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 13:34 GMT		-1 points
	Day of the Dead, Books of Magic, and Miracleman all do not count for the same reason - they were instances of Gaiman writing a portion of a series, as opposed to works he authored the whole of. (Technically Books of Magic restarted under its second author, but given that it's collected in trades with Gaiman's four issues as volume 1, then Reiber's first issues as volume 2, I erred on the side of exclusion). Odd and the Frost Giants was UK only, though I should have specified US if I was going to exclude it. Dangerous Alphabet I just didn't find when I scoured for a list of works, and forgot myself.

	DrGrizzly:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 14:26 GMT		4 points
	Actually, wrote the original 4 issues miniseries of Books of Magic. He never wrote the ongoing series, so it should be in there.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 14:31 GMT		1 point
	DrDoomDDS - Yeah, I know. I treated the two as one series, which is also how Vertigo treats it in their trades. I could have justified going the other direction, but I felt like if I did I had to include his Spawn issue, Miracleman, his Batman Black & White backup story, his Babylon 5 episode, etc. And I felt like that was unreasonable. So I decided to err on the side of exclusion.

	DrGrizzly:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 14:39 GMT		4 points
	I get that theory, but he created Books of Magic, and when he did so he intended it to be just a 4 issue miniseries. Vertigo didn't expand it until later. It's your call, but I think it should be on there.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 15:07 GMT		-1 points
	DrDoomDDS - I see your point. And it's, ironically, probably easier to guess than some of the things I did include. Honestly, when I wrote up the quiz I hadn't realized that there was a several year gap and restart of the series - my impression had always been that the Reiber run just started with issue #5. I could have justified including it, I agree. But I think it does fall into the realm of debatable. :)

	magister:	Oct 22nd, 2008 at 17:25 GMT		0 points
	Phil, I imagine I'm beating a dead wombat on this one, but I'll have to agree with DrDoomDDS on this one. The Books of Magic is a stand alone book even with the continuation of the series. Especially considering DC allowed the Sandman franchise to be continued (albeit in different forms) without him. In fact, I'm a little bummed to see it missing...

	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 01:28 GMT		0 points
	I thought about this while I was on the highway, but hasn't Marvel continued the 1602 concept without him? Wouldn't that need to be taken off the list?

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 01:44 GMT		-1 points
	magister - Not under the same title. It's all been 1602: Some Subtitle or Another.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 01:54 GMT		-1 points
	The better one to raise would have been The Eternals, which has apparently acquired a new series by someone other than Gaiman taking off from his concepts. Which does make the Books of Magic exclusion more problematic. Ah well. It was a tough quiz to split, since comics writers tend to do odd jobs here and there that make pinning down their "works" tricky. I may have made the wrong call on Books of Magic. Or on Eternals. I hope the quiz is fun anyway.

	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 01:57 GMT		-1 points
	You're right Phil. Books Of Magic: Bindings; Books of Magic: Summonings; Books of Magic: Reckonings are the same title as Books of Magic. And again Phil, you're right. "#1" and "First Issue" are not prominently featured on the front cover of the Books of Magic continuing series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TheBooksOfMagic_ongoingseries_1.jpg

	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 01:58 GMT		-1 points
	Or with The Eternals, there's always the problem of it being a restart of a previous series.

	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 02:08 GMT		0 points
	Jack Kirby made them in 1976.

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 02:33 GMT		5 points
	magister - I'm not sure what you want me to say here. I was under the mistaken impression that Reiber's series started with issue #5. I don't own the original issue. I was going based on my memory of the Vertigo trades, which I haven't touched in a book store in five years, and which, in my memory, treated Reiber's issues as a continuation of Gaiman's. I thought about adding Books of Magic when I wrote the quiz, and thought "Oh, wait, he didn't write all of that series," so I didn't add it. With The Eternals, I figured that since it had been 20 years since a series under that title had come out, it wasn't an issue. I didn't remember the Knauf-penned title coming out now because I don't buy the comic. I checked the quiz against a published list of Gaiman's works, and it did me no good because I knew Books of Magic existed, and the list of Gaiman's works doesn't extensively annotate who has or hasn't picked up the title since he left. I've explained what happened with the quiz. If the inconsistency of a single title being excluded ruins the quiz for you, I'm very sorry.

	magister:	Oct 23rd, 2008 at 02:48 GMT		-2 points
	It's not the inconsistency of a single title that is the problem. Phil, I greatly respect you and I've enjoyed many of your quizzes, but there are several inconsistencies that show up here. "The Books Of Magic" are like that little bit of dirt on a light brown lawn chair, and when you clean it off, you notice that the chair is white. And there are further inconsistencies that haven't been pointed out, which I will spare you. Furthermore, I've felt that many of your comments to other comments have been dismissive. Apologetic, yes, but dismissive. Please take advice from Sporcle Admin. If there's a problem, apologize, fix it if you can, and move on. Someone will probably comment on your behalf. Notice ared defending you. You've spent nearly a third of this thread responding to issues, and we've spent two thirds bickering.

	Tom_Three:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 02:11 GMT		2 points
	Not to further muddy the waters, but a two part Batman story written by Neil Gaiman entitled "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" has been solicited for January or February 2009 (I believe) which will run in an issue of "Batman" and an issue of "Detective Comics." Will this count as answer in a future update?

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 15:03 GMT		5 points
	Tom - I would not count it, given that it's a case of Gaiman doing part of a larger work he is not the creator or primary author of. It is, for me, analagous to Day of the Dead or his Spawn issue.

	magister:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 16:11 GMT		-3 points
	I agree with Phil, this is very similar (on multiple levels) to Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow." However, if it made its way into a collection, also like Moore's issues (in "DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore" - 2006/ 2008 editions) it may end up here, since "Midnight Days" is on the list.

	sdh:	Oct 27th, 2008 at 20:08 GMT		5 points
	All this hubbub about the Books of Magic, and nobody's mentioned "Duran Duran: The First Four Years of the Fab Five" (1984).

	ntnon:	Oct 27th, 2008 at 22:25 GMT		2 points
	I would tend to agree that "Books of Magic" should be on, possibly "Duran Duran" and also "Now We Are Sick". More importantly - where's the Alan Moore quiz..?!

	magister:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 02:47 GMT		1 point
	It's not here. I was simply using it as an example because "Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow" was so similar to what I imagine "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader" will be. Also, I knew "Midnight Days" (a collection of DC Comics by Gaiman) was on the list and "WHTTMOT" was included in the Alan Moore collection (just not the 2003 edition). I purchased both at the New York Comic Con last April. There isn't an Alan Moore list yet, and although it would be fun, Moore does even more weird stuff than Gaiman, and a lot of his stuff is British. We'd have to include his CDs and crazy books, and ::shudder:: "Lost Girls"

	PhilSandifer:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 16:54 GMT		1 point
	Yeah - I've considered an Alan Moore quiz. I'd enjoy it. But he has done a lot more short runs on comics than Gaiman has, making the quiz hard. And, more importantly, this quiz is actually one of the ten least popular on Sporcle, with barely 500 takers. Given that, I don't think moving to a more obscure comics writer is a very good idea. Apparently Sporcle users don't overlap terribly well with that particular aspect of geek fandom. C'est la vie.

	ntnon:	Nov 9th, 2008 at 20:44 GMT		1 point
	Oh, I meant "Where is the Moore quiz?" in the sense of "Why isn't there already a Moore quiz?" so that's fine. Considering that a) Batman villains is one of the more popular quizes, and there are other high-placed comics-related quizes (particularly with film-links); b) Moore is not an "obscure comics writer" (unless there's a pause between the two - "Obscure" and "comics writer" is fair enough, if mildly debatable; but not "obscure comics writer") and will be certainly in the public eye more come the Watchmen film; c) His works are, I would suggest, more widely known. Gaiman (in comics) is Sandman. Moore is Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and more.. Plus, many of Moore's shorter runs have been collected and are inherently notable in and of themselves: his primary GLC story underpins a current big event, for example. As for the overlap, even taking into account that some "geek" games are reasonably popular, at the other end you have Tolstoy, Chaplain and the Popes at the lower end, too, so I don't think that "least popular" really applies as a criticism.

	magister:	Nov 14th, 2008 at 03:30 GMT		1 point
	@ntnon: In response: a) I wonder how much of the popularity of the Batman/ Superman/ X-Men Quizzes are due to these being 1) mainstream comics; and 2) as you said, with film links. I think that if you suggested those and then said Jeph Loeb/ Darwyn Cooke/ Chris Claremont (only using these authors as suggestions, mind you), most people (even Sporclers) would say "Who?" b) I believe that Phil had said "more obscure comics writer" which I agree is debatable, but who could possibly win that argument? c) From a comics perspective, while both are immensely popular, Moore probably is more widely known. Outside that perspective, Moore can't hold up a novel and say "Here's my New York Times Bestseller." Gaiman can. Furthermore, while many people know the films of the movies you listed, I still get hit with "That was based on a comic?!?!?!" And finally, I think it is important to see what the "least popular" list shows us, because regardless of how cool something may seem, if no one (except Phil, you and me) is going to play it, why bother?

	ntnon:	Nov 17th, 2008 at 21:11 GMT		1 point
	Magister, a) Quite. And Moore is, I'm fairly sure (even with the "didn't know that" caveat) the most-filmed comics writer. Which is horrendously ironic..! And, even without his name on them, "V" and "Watchmen" (already) are pretty big films; Depp and Connery made "From Hell" and "LXG" curate's eggs. You may well be right that Loeb, Cooke and Claremont (et al.) would be largely unknown, but Gaiman is not much wider known to the "normal public"; Whedon is still niche - but known; Russell T Davies is very niche - but known. Millar and Bendis are known in comics circles; Stan Lee is moderately well known even outside of comics (A "what did Stan co-create [with Kirby/Ditko/Pamela Anderson/etc.]?" quiz could work very well, by the way.) Gaiman is Moore's protege. Moore taught Gaiman everything he knows (about comics), so to even suggest that Moore is a more obscure comics writer than Gaiman is ludicrous. Gaiman gave his name to Teckno Comics; Moore had America's Best, and multiple Avatar titles. Moore's NYT Best-seller is Watchmen. Gaiman can't boast a novel OR comic on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list - Moore can. Also, a quiz about Roman Emperors is surely infinitely more obscure than Moore's works..! :o)

	magister:	Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:01 GMT		1 point
	@ntnon: As you should see, I admitted that the contest of "Who's obscurity is bigger" is up for grabs. Fanboys around the world can continue to argue that. I'm merely taking the stance that there's ultimately no way to quantify obscurity. Although I will add, do you have any record of Watchmen being on he bestseller list before the movie? (Not an attack, I was just curious) Gaiman's "Anansi Boys" was on it from release. Anyways, my point, in defending Phil, is that a Moore quiz would be next to impossible to construct. Phil did a great job on this quiz and he still pissed people off (me, especially, for about 16 hours.) If you'd like to take on the list, I'm sure that Sporcle Admin would love to see it. And for the record, let it be known that I have never advocated a Roman emperors quiz. If you look back at my comments on the Works of Shakespeare, I've actually always been against its inclusion as being too niche. Incidentally, however, it is running now at almost quintuple the play rate of this quiz. No one knows the true ins and outs of Sporclers' interests, but this quiz is still in the bottom 10.

	PhilSandifer:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 04:12 GMT		1 point
	Yeah. I mean, I'm surprised that an author who can debut a book at the top of the NYT charts, and who's blog is one of the most followed on the Internet only got this many plays. But the facts are what they are. This quiz was not a hit. Others have been. I should do quizzes more like the others. :)

	magister:	Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:23 GMT		1 point
	Phil, all issues aside, I do still really like this quiz.

	ntnon:	Nov 24th, 2008 at 20:22 GMT		1 point
	I like this quiz too. (Incidentally, has Mr Gaiman been told of its existence..? If it hasn't been linked to from his blog before, perhaps it ought to be drawn to his attention.) And it's a cheap shot, but I still think that a Moore one is several steps more interesting/useful that a "Tour de France (pre-World War II)" one, etc. (and I'm not suggesting that you, Magister, think otherwise).. ...but yes, the ins and outs are impossible to fathom. I don't think it would be too hard to put together. Probably always be debated, but still. I've suggested it "properly" (without a follow-up response), and began to compile one 'just in case' I heard back, so I could make a suggestion, if it were required. [N.B. Watchmen is the highest-selling "graphic novel" of all time, and was on the TIME list pre-film, but it may or may not have been on a bestseller list before the last year. I think it may have done, but I can't point to a source at the moment.]

	magister:	Nov 25th, 2008 at 00:07 GMT		1 point
	Oh, I agree that it would be more interesting than the Tour de France quiz. No offense to davidr, but most of those I just skip over, just like most of the sports ones. I am happy that you have made the list for Moore, I just wouldn't have wanted to put my name on it. Furthermore, I would be careful about using that Time list. It is only from 1923 on, it is only English language, and more importantly, it is based on quality, not popularity. I agree that Watchmen is possibly the best graphic novel ever, (although I'm personally more attached to Blankets by Craig Thompson. I'm a little emo that way.) but Stephen King, for example, doesn't make it on the Time list. Is Moore less obscure than King?

	ntnon:	Dec 2nd, 2008 at 23:08 GMT		1 point
	Moore is more obscure than King, of course. Neil Gaiman is also considerably more obscure than King. More than likely Terry Pratchett is also more obscure than King, but all of that's a side-argument. The Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners are are (supposedly) based on quality not popularity - and those are widely recognised and cited awards: quizzed on here, and mostly full of utterly obscure (and, perhaps, in part, somewhat pointless, forgotten or mediocre authors). So trying to dismiss the Time list is a bit of a non-argument, I'd say, even if it is limited to the last hundred-ish years of output. In fact, I think a quiz based on the TIME 100 list would be an excellent addition to the literature section. (Also I don't personally understand the allure of Blankets, but maybe that's just me...!)

	magister:	Dec 3rd, 2008 at 01:54 GMT		1 point
	I was just addressing your use of the list to gauge obscurity. In any case, I don't expect anyone to react the same way as me to Blankets. The allure of Blankets for me only exists because of the many similarities to my own life. It's very similar to the fact that I don't understand why American Pie is popular outside of my hometown. That movie's based on a high school I taught at for a while, and my favorite parts are the references to the town. It's a very personal relationship between me and Blankets.

	Arthur:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 00:26 GMT		-3 points
	Okay. Never heard of him.

	smileysmoothie04:	Jun 8th, 2009 at 00:12 GMT		3 points
	i love the movie mirrormask...deffinitely an all-time favorite :)

	magister:	Jul 15th, 2009 at 03:38 GMT		1 point
	@smileysmoothie04: Really? I mean, I liked it, but it was far too Dave McKean for me.