Neil Gaiman - NOT a smut writer
April 27, 2006I borrowed a copy of Neil Gaiman’s Endless Nights from my local library last week. Unfortunately, it was at that exact moment that my mother was visiting, and she happened to flip through the book.
American Gods. Sandman. Death: The High Cost of Living. Of all the Neil Gaiman books why did she have to flip through that one?
Mom: Are you reading pornographic novels now?
Me (patiently): No Mum, Neil Gaiman’s novels aren’t pornographic.
Mom: But there’s a picture of a man sucking a woman’s breast! That’s pornography!
Me: I don’t read Neil Gaiman’s stories for the naughty pictures. And that image is perfectly in keeping with the story.
Mom (panicking, not listening): My eldest son is buying pornography!
Granted, that particular story illustrated by Milo Manara is rather risque, but it is perfectly appropriate for the story Neil wanted to tell. He has such a vivid and fertile imagination, and now my mother thinks he’s a smut writer.
Why me?
