Comments on: On Nice Versus Nasty http://www.philippalmer.net/2007/08/27/on-nice-versus-nasty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-nice-versus-nasty Philip Palmer on writing for print, radio and screen Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:26:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Philip Palmer http://www.philippalmer.net/2007/08/27/on-nice-versus-nasty/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Philip Palmer Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:08:13 +0000 http://www.philippalmer.net/2007/08/27/on-nice-versus-nasty/#comment-20 It seems scarcely credible that any person could be THAT nice...could it be that at some point all the evil was sucked out of Gaiman's soul, and absorbed by the Palmer-head? It seems scarcely credible that any person could be THAT nice…could it be that at some point all the evil was sucked out of Gaiman’s soul, and absorbed by the Palmer-head?

]]> By: Angell McGregor. http://www.philippalmer.net/2007/08/27/on-nice-versus-nasty/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Angell McGregor. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:42:49 +0000 http://www.philippalmer.net/2007/08/27/on-nice-versus-nasty/#comment-16 Gaiman is indeed the most nice, most charming person to have ever wandered the earth in a lovely black leather jacket. I have met Gaiman, I have had his hairy locks brush against my own, and I have had my books signed and personalised, and doodled in by the man. I went to one of his Coraline-era readings and signings in a small Blackwell's bookshop hidden in a Sheffield backstreet, and when I mentioned that one of the books he was signing was for my lovely lady's birthday he went to great lengths to write a personal dedication, and draw some lovely bits and pieces in there for her. Yep, one of the nicest men in fiction, but he writes some wonderful bastards. The aforementioned Messers Croup and Vendemar are wonderfully grotesque, with their ill fitting suits and oil slick smiles. Oh, but what of the Angel Islington, and the dark and dangerous new Gods of TV and highway and mobile phone etc. in American Gods? By far the grandest of all his bastards though has to be the savage Mr. Alice, from his novella The Monarch of the Glen (found in the most recent short story collection Fragile Things). A sly old man with a penchant for very special young boys. Millar is great too, a Scot both tack sharp and effortlessly lovely. Make your way through any early noughties copy of comics magazine Wizard and you'll see a pic of Millar, with a 'tache like Terry Thomas and a saucy black bra covering his nipples of Scottish justice. And, you know, I wouldn't mind being Superman. If only to make some morally dubious choices with my X-Ray vision a certain Miss Lane. Gaiman is indeed the most nice, most charming person to have ever wandered the earth in a lovely black leather jacket.

I have met Gaiman, I have had his hairy locks brush against my own, and I have had my books signed and personalised, and doodled in by the man.

I went to one of his Coraline-era readings and signings in a small Blackwell’s bookshop hidden in a Sheffield backstreet, and when I mentioned that one of the books he was signing was for my lovely lady’s birthday he went to great lengths to write a personal dedication, and draw some lovely bits and pieces in there for her.

Yep, one of the nicest men in fiction, but he writes some wonderful bastards.

The aforementioned Messers Croup and Vendemar are wonderfully grotesque, with their ill fitting suits and oil slick smiles.

Oh, but what of the Angel Islington, and the dark and dangerous new Gods of TV and highway and mobile phone etc. in American Gods?

By far the grandest of all his bastards though has to be the savage Mr. Alice, from his novella The Monarch of the Glen (found in the most recent short story collection Fragile Things). A sly old man with a penchant for very special young boys.

Millar is great too, a Scot both tack sharp and effortlessly lovely. Make your way through any early noughties copy of comics magazine Wizard and you’ll see a pic of Millar, with a ‘tache like Terry Thomas and a saucy black bra covering his nipples of Scottish justice.

And, you know, I wouldn’t mind being Superman. If only to make some morally dubious choices with my X-Ray vision a certain Miss Lane.

]]> By: Ariel http://www.philippalmer.net/2007/08/27/on-nice-versus-nasty/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Ariel Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:53:48 +0000 http://www.philippalmer.net/2007/08/27/on-nice-versus-nasty/#comment-14 Still haven't read <i>Anansi Boys</i> myself. Might be one for the holiday reading list... although at the rate I'm adding titles I might have to extend the holiday by a month or so. Still haven’t read Anansi Boys myself. Might be one for the holiday reading list… although at the rate I’m adding titles I might have to extend the holiday by a month or so.

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