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September 27, 2005

Time Interviews Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman

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Time magazine interviews Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon and comic book creator Neil Gaiman. Both have movies coming out this Friday, Whedon's Serenity and Gaiman's Mirrormask.

Gaiman talks about his blog, his Sandman comic book, and his fantasy novel Anansi Boys. Whedon talks about Wonder Woman. They both talk about the rise of the nerds.

And they also talk about the need to end something when it's over. For Whedon that seems to be Buffy and for Gaiman it was Sandman, a comic that ended while it was out-selling everything else. (And Whedon says Serenity is different because he never had a chance to tell the story in Firefly.)

Gaiman chimes in comparing writers to otters:

I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

Posted by kevin at September 27, 2005 2:13 PM

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