The couple were granted a “distinguished talent visa” by the Australian government for five years, in 2016, basing themselves in Melbourne. They live, appropriately enough, in Woodstock, in New York state. Was he, or is he, a little bit rock'n'roll ? He is, after all, married to an actual American rock'n'roll queen or “cult cabaret artist”, formerly with the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer his second wife, with whom he has a three-year-old son, Ash. “True,” Gaiman admits, with a mild sense of indulgent affection for his young self.
Since the Sandman writer was rather ‘'nocturnal'’ in their collaboration days, Pratchett would apparently leave voice messages saying “Get up, you bastard!”. I take that as ‘a knobbly face with character’.” When I say Gaiman's own looks remind me of another Polish Jew, the actor Adrien Brody, he says: “I normally get Alan Rickman, who seems just as unlikely, or the irritating one in Friends. These two manifestations of good and evil have taken a liking to life on Earth, as well as to one another, and collude to postpone its end. It is a comedy about the birth of Satan (with a Shakespearean farcical element of mistaken parents), the countdown to the Apocalypse and at its heart: the delicious creations of the angel Aziraphale (the former guardian of the Eastern Gate of Eden) and the demon Crowley. The first draft of the book they worked on together was called William the Anti-Christ, the second was the book they sold in 1990, Good Omens – the full title has an additional line: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.
Or as Gaiman is fond of repeating: “It was an awful lot like Michelangelo calling you up and saying, ‘If you’re not doing anything this weekend, do you want to do a ceiling?’” This was like an surprise dream apprenticeship to a master craftsman.
The younger writer said he was consumed with “trying to ride the Sandman wave” to which Pratchett replied: “Well, I know what happens next – so either you can sell me what you’ve done and the idea or we can write it together.” Three years on, Gaiman’s Sandman comics “took off and became this mad thing of early success” – which is when, somewhere early in 1989, Pratchett called to find out what progress Gaiman had made on his book. When Gaiman started a novel of his own, with the amusing conceit that children's book character Just William is the spawn of Lucifer, it was a given that he would send the first 25 pages to his friend to have a look.
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