"You find yourself wishing a holiday on the man"
A nice story-cum-interview featuring Neil Gaiman in today’s Independent:
The truth according to Sandman
…this is a smallish turnout for Gaiman: in Brazil, he explains, 1,250 people once rolled up to a similar engagement. “After 700 of them, the shop cut the line,” he relates drily, “and the remaining 500 people explained in an enthusiastic Brazilian way that if they weren’t allowed to see me they would of course have to riot and destroy the shop. And the manager enthusiastically said – Join the line! So I signed until two o’clock that morning.” Read on here…