I read everything by Gaiman (especially look forward to his work with Dave McKean). Short, suprisingly deep story ("The world is always ending for someone."), but it's really a showcase for McKean's art. ( )

Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean present their masterpiece in a completely remastered and redesigned edition overflowing with bonus material! Serialized in "The Face" in 1989, expanded and revised into a graphic novel in 1992, and adapted for radio in 2000, "Signal to Noise" has never stopped evolving.

Somewhere in London, a film director is dying of cancer.

His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of 999 A.D. approached - the midnight that the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon.

Now that story will never be told. But he's still working it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. No one but us. As the film director tried to convey, the end of the world is not a communal event, it does not encompass everyone--it is different for all of us. We all experience our own individual "apocalypse." I wholeheartedly agree.

Also included in this edition are three separate short stories that led to "Signal to Noise"'s publishing and creation, while a few were made during its process. All three stories deal with the themes of language and communication in terms of barriers, and breaking those barriers down. I especially loved "Vier Mauern." McKean's artwork for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is superb.

Book Details:

Title Signal to Noise
Author Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Reviewed By Purplycookie ( )

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A must read if you're interested in communications theory or film (or just read the original version in The Face), but also if the words and pictures of a graphic novel mezmerizes you and makes you want to draw and write and mess with your own mind. Gaiman is a genious writer, and his words in this novel, coupled with McKean's haunting drawings, will make you seriously think about the small Armageddons of your life, of everyone's life. It's a very Neil Gaiman-trip this, with one world ending while others go on, possibly forever.

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