In Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a new collection of twelve nonfiction pieces ranging from 1968 to 2000 and gathered together for the first time, Didion tackles the press, art, her college years, writing, and her own self-doubt, which has been constant throughout her career and is to blame for the small number of short stories she has written.

It could well be that as McKean launches into the second decade of his professional life, and into richer, increasingly artistically daring territory, he may soon be in a class all his own.Any discussion about the giants of contemporary American letters must include Joan Didion. “Dave McKean is in the first rank of comics artists. “Neil Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any medium.” – Stephen King “ brilliant book that should not be passed up.” – IGN It’s classic Gaiman!Ĭollecting the entire three-issue miniseries with an introduction from writer and journalist Mikal Gilmore, and an extensive behind-the-scenes gallery of sketches and preliminary texts from Gaiman. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in the Amazon rainforest, this book takes the reader on a journey through secrets, suffering and self-rediscovery. So begins Black Orchid, one of comics’ most remarkable and transformative creations. Her body is consumed by flames, and her killer walks free. In an anonymous corporate boardroom, a superhero is shot through the head. She shall avenge her own death while she tries to reconcile human memory and these new botanical origins, untangling the webs of deception and secrets that led to her death. After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn as the Black Orchid, a ghostly, ethereal hybrid of plant and human.

Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman’s frequent collaborator, Dave McKean. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or olderīefore introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman wrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in the Vertigo mold.

Black orchid by neil gaiman