Neil Gaiman Gives Advice To Aspiring Artists In Connecticut (VIDEO)

[Rich Johnston]

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Neil Gaiman gives some incredibly sage and sincere advice to a young aspiring artist at The CT YOUTH Forum's Student-Roundtable Discussion. Before every Forum event, high school students are given the opportunity to sit with the evening's panelists to ask questions and discuss important topics. Gaiman sat with Neil deGrasse Tyson, MIT's Neri Oxman, WNPR's John Dankosky, and a collection of high school students from around Connecticut for a question and answer session prior to The Connecticut Forum's "Vision & Brilliance" Forum on December 1, 2012.

[Blackfist]

[Lou]

So true.

So very true.

I wish I had heard Neil's words 30 years ago.

[Assemble!]

Neil is an incredibly engaging and warm individual. I believe he also has a bright future in writing. At a reading for American Gods, I asked him if he had any advice for an aspiring writer. He said, "Yes. Start writing something. Finish it. Start writing something else." While a bit tongue-in-cheek, it is spot on. It illustrated to me that, despite his many awards and accolades, he still gets it. He's still very much grounded, which I can appreciate even more than his work.

[Devil Dinosaur]

Not only excellent advice, but impeccable grammar. Hair, not so much, but still.

Also, to the girl in the audience - get cosmetic dentistry, as soon as possible, and a new wardrobe and haircut. No one is going to take you seriously like that. People with money to make films are very shallow.

[Jason A. Quest]

Not only excellent advice, but impeccable grammar. Hair, not so much, but still.

Also, to the girl in the audience - get cosmetic dentistry, as soon as possible, and a new wardrobe and haircut. No one is going to take you seriously like that. People with money to make films are very shallow.

That would be why that Gaiman fella never got anywhere.

That sad bit of business aside...


This is why I make comics. The comics-creator "surplus" is just as bad as film directors, but apparently there was no one else out there who was going to make Fetus Christ or Captain Miracle. Certainly no one who could tell my life story through sex scenes (my current project). No one who'll write the kind of sequel to Peter Pan that I have (looking for an artist: the one who brings the unique perversity and humor needed). No one who's going to retell the life of Jesus like I will. And so on.