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[raspberrysweettea]

A new Neil Gaiman article just dropped. I wouldn't recommend reading it if you're not in a good headspace, because it gives explicit details of some of the incidents.

Edit: the article is long.

Edit 2: I posted this before finishing the article because I'm a slow reader. "explicit details" is too kind of a description. Some of this stuff is absolutely horrific.

Comments

[shadowbliss]

Yeah...I'm thinking of throwing out some of his books after reading that...

[raspberrysweettea]

Yeah, I wish there had been some content warnings up front on that article.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my Sandman omnibuses yet. They were expensive enough that I cringe at just throwing out that much money.

[shadowbliss]

I still have books of his in my collection (including the final Sandman omnibus) that I simply haven't read. I'm going to at least TRY to read them and if I can't, donate them. I'd LIKE to put on "who cares about who the artist is if the art moves you?" hat (and if I were working in a library, I'd take that road because they're not paying anything to the author directly) but...things are more complicated in today's world

I also think it's weird that he is one of three writers credited with revitalizing comics to being "serious art" - the other two being Frank Miller and Alan Moore. I kind of can't believe Moore is actually the one who comes out of that trinity the most unscathed by controversy (Miller is a rather outspoken bigot).

[raspberrysweettea]

Now that you point it out about the three creators, that's. . .wow.

[matsushima]

If your books are still in good condition, a library might accept them as a donation. He's such a famous author that they'll likely still be purchasing his books to fill patron requests - it's considered the ethical thing. (See: this article.) At least they wouldn't be giving him and more money?

[raspberrysweettea]

Oh, that option hadn't even crossed my mind. Thank you!

They all have the black sprayed page edges. 1 & 2 are fine but I am reminded that the black stuff on 3 was coming off and I need to check on it. I remember the insides being fine, so I wonder if I should just go outside and riffle the pages until it all of it that wants to comes off.

[matsushima]

I'm not even halfway through the article and I'm already feeling like I want to crawl out of my skin in disgust. What a fucking monster.