Jeffrey Berman: Neil Gaiman: Literary Rock Star and Me

Neil Gaiman Interview

Jeffrey Berman interviews Neil Gaiman for The Huffington Post:

The first time I met Gaiman was in a little comic shop I used to frequent in Sherman Oaks, California, called Forbidden Planet. "The Sandman" had been in print less than a year and Gaiman was several years off from becoming the superstar he is today. I found him seated alone at the back of the store, making the rounds, promoting the comic from store to store, city to city and God knows where else. There he sat as the rush of comic collectors wound their way around the store pawing through that week's new comics deciding which issues to buy and which they were just going to just read off the rack...