As you may know, on July 23, 2008 Tori Amos and Image Comics release COMIC BOOK TATTOO, a 480-page, full color anthology adapting the themes and ideas behind her songs into a lush volume of sequential art. Editor Rantz Hoseley said, “While the connections between comics and music have been long established by generations of creators, Comic Book Tattoo is the pure distillation of how these two art forms inspire and feed off of each other across all the classifications, genres and styles of comic storytelling. Like Tori’s music, these
stories run the gamut of human experience, emotion and imagination brought to life by some of the most compelling and innovative creators in the field of comics.”

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Comic Book Tattoo Limited Edition Hardcover
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See more photos of Comic Book Tattoo in the Gallery and on Rantz’s Flickr page

The Graveyard Book is an upcoming novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave Mckean. It’s about a boy whose parents are killed is adopted and raised by the occupants of a graveyard. The Graveyard Book releases September 30, 2008. You can PRE-ORDER The Graveyard Book now at Amazon.com.

On September 26, Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders will release!

FRAGILE THINGS, Gaiman’s second collection of short fiction, contains approximately twenty previously published pieces of short fiction — stories, verse, and an American Gods novella — plus one new piece written especially for this volume.

In the introduction to Neil Gaiman’s short story collection — a wildly diverse assortment of horror, sci-fi, dark fantasy, poetry, and speculative fiction — he explains the book’s title: “Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are…fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks.”

Noteworthy selections in this undeniably exceptional collection include the Hugo Award winning “A Study in Emerald,” which deftly blends Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s late-19th-century England with gruesome Lovecraftian horror; the Locus Award winning “October in the Chair”; an homage to Ray Bradbury that features the months of the year personified; and “How to Talk to Girls at Parties,” a tale featuring two oversexed teenagers from an all-boys school in South London who stumble into a party full of what they take to be hot chicks but are in reality alien tourists! Also included are a brilliant American Gods novella (“Monarch of the Glen”) and “Strange Little Girls,” a series of, well, strange very short stories that first appeared in a Tori Amos tour book.

You can PRE-ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

There are several current and upcoming publications and releases by Tori Amos and Neil Gaiman of note!

Amazon.com is now distributing THE BEEKEEPER SONGBOOK! Totalling 139 pages, this soft-cover full-size (8″x11″) book contains piano notation for the songs from The Beekeeper album, published by Amsco Music. It also features a bonus of 20 all-exclusive, only to-be-seen-here photos. You can ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

On September 20, 2005, Neil Gaiman’s upcoming novel ANANSI BOYS will release! Exciting, scary, and deeply funny, Anansi Boys is a kaleidoscope journey deep into myth, a wild adventure, and a fierce and unstoppable farce, as Neil Gaiman shows us where gods come from, and how to survive your family. You can read a short excerpt at Neil’s official website. You can PRE-ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

From the incomparable imagination and lucid visions of Sandman creator Neil Gaiman and acclaimed artist and director Dave McKean — and the innovative minds at The Jim Henson Company — comes MirrorMask, a breathtaking journey through a strange and magical looking-glass world where anything can happen … and frequently does. The story of young Helena, daughter of the circus, comes vividly alive as we accompany her on her remarkable mission to a place far beyond wonder; a phantasmagorical quest to rescue a realm from the devouring forces of chaos and shadow in order to win back her stolen “real” life from a runaway interloper from the other side. MIRRORMASK: THE ILLUSTRATED FILM SCRIPT OF THE MOTION PICTURE FROM THE JIM HENSON COMPANY is the complete film book of the new high-water mark in family fantasy entertainment. Containing the full screenplay and more than 1,700 illustrated storyboards of the major motion picture — as well as movie stills, comments, appreciations, and memories from the authors and filmmakers — this one-of-a-kind volume is destined to become a classic, a keepsake to be cherished by fans of all ages. You can ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

Also check out The Alchemy of MirrorMask and MirrorMask (children’s edition)!

Starting on August 30, 2005, two official Tori Amos live bootlegs will be released! These albums are the first 2 out of a series of 6 official Bootlegs that Tori plans to release. After years of paying top dollar for low quality bootlegs, Tori Amos diehards now have an alternative. Six live bootleg recordings are set to be released this fall. The first two releases are scheduled for an August 30th release, with four more due this fall. All six discs will be available exclusively at www.toriamosbootlegs.com. Each bootleg is a double-disc package brimming with live rarities, fan favorites and stunning cover versions. Each set was recorded live during her “Original Sinsuality Tour”. The first album features songs captured during Amos’ April 15th, 2005 concert at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. The second album was recorded on April 25th, 2005 at Royce Hall Auditorium in Los Angeles.

For those of you who have not heard and may be interested: Fiona Apple Completes Long Awaited New Album Extraordinary Machine! Acclaimed artist Fiona Apple has completed her highly anticipated third album Extraordinary Machine and it will be released by Epic Records on October 4, 2005. Extraordinary Machine, produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem and 50 Cent) and co-produced by Brian Kehew, contains twelve new tracks from this groundbreaking artist.

Finally added new, full-page scans of the Scarlet’s Walk Tourbook (2002). It contains full page color and black & white photos of Tori, as well as a few pics of her crew on the last page. Once again, Neil Gaiman contributes to the book in the form of diary entries titled, Pages from a Journal found in a shoebox left in a Grayhound Bus somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Louisville, Kentucky which follow the path in search of “Scarlet”. You can read the diaries either on the scanned pages or in plain text.

I am surprised and honored that Neil Gaiman plugged this website in his online journal yesterday! This inspired me to update a few bits to the Hi Neil section including Scarlet’s Walk lyric references and tourbook diaries, as well as some book credits. Thank you, Neil!

On August 26, 2003, the much-anticipated (Region 1 US) DVD Box Set for Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel Neverwhere will be released! Directed by Dewi Humphreys, it was originally a six-part BBC television series. The DVD box set includes audio commentary by Gaiman as well as a vintage interview with him. You can PRE-ORDER this 2-disc set now at Amazon.com.

For those of you who are avid Neil Gaiman fans like me, there are several new publications and projects that I have to share which are most exciting!

In August, Gaiman’s new young adult graphic novel, The Wolves in the Walls, will release, which includes illustrations by Dave McKean. You can PRE-ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

In September, Gaiman plans to release a brand new graphic novel addition to his Sandman series called Sandman: Endless Nights. You can PRE-ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

A Sandman-related book by Stephen Rauch titled, Neil Gaiman’s the Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth has already been released. This book is an examination of Gaiman’s work including detailed analysis of the “Sandman” and “Death” series, a look at his work’s relationship to Joseph Campbell, as well as a variety of philosophical studies. You can ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

Another book titled, The Sandman Presents: The Furies, written by Mike Carey, is one of the follow-up books that DC Comics has been producing related to Gaiman’s The Sandman. This book contains photo-realistic paintings by John Bolton (The Books of Magic) and is a story concerning Lyta Hall and the Furies. You can ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

And finally, this summer, Jill Thompson (illustrator of The Sandman: Brief Lives) will be releasing a Manga (japanese style comic art) project called At Death’s Door, about Death of the Endless. Visit Thompson’s website to view some pages from the book. You can PRE-ORDER this book now at Amazon.com.

And just to add a bit of Tori-ness, Neil posted this information in a recent journal entry (2003-06-16):
Spoke to Tori, who is in Cornwall remixing and soon-to-be recording for the Atlantic greatest hits CD, and she wanted me to mention that her wonderchef, Duncan Pickford, will soon have his own website up, with recipes and food magic and suchlike on it. I’ll put the link up here when it happens. Duncan’s amazing ginger throat-soothing drink got me through the Coraline reading in San Francisco… (I also put in my vote for a song I’d like to hear on the CD, and am now keeping my fingers crossed.)

More information may be found at neilgaiman.com and The Dent’s Neil Gaiman Page.