The 20th Century Danny Boy blog shares a little piece of comic history with the publication of Larry Marder’s testimony at the Neil Gaiman/Todd McFarlane trial over the rights to Angela and Miracleman:
Q: Did you ever speak with him in person since then?A: Yes.Q: When was that?A: San Diego comic book convention, 1999.Q: And just tell me as best you can recall about that conversation?A: I was — I ran into Neil on the escalator in the mezzanine area on the way to a panel and I said hello to Neil and we stopped and we talked.Q: Did you talk about issues relating to Mr. McFarlane?A: Yes.Q: Tell me as best you can recall the conversation that you had?A: I was saying hello to Neil and he was very angry.Q: And -A: And he said that — he had a large group of people with him, none of whom I knew, and they sort of formed a circle around us.Q: Who is “us”?A: Neil and I. And Neil was saying that this needs to be solved.Q: Did he say what “this” was?A: No.Q: Did you know what this was?A: I could figure it out, yes.
It’s a weirdly anal, wonderfully compelling look at how granular the case got (Who knew how important Gaiman’s Sandman contract was, for the whole thing?) and how Image works – or, at least, worked, back in the day.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:04 pm
To author, you did a nice job writing this!