Black Orchid (1988-1989 graph 1991), also with McKean, revised and provided an origin story for the titular DC Comics superheroine (see Superheroes). Gaiman's first Graphic Novel was Violent Cases (graph 1987) with Dave McKean, a dark urban fantasy. Gaiman did, however, very early begin to publish work of genre interest with 'Featherquest' for Imagine #14 in May 1984, and his second book, Ghastly Beyond Belief (anth 1985) with Kim Newman, assembles various kinds of bad (and/or obsessional) writing to be found in sf and fantasy. His prominence – he has become a respected author, and a media star – is therefore only remotely connected to his sf work. He then specialized in the scripting of fantasy and sf comics and Graphic Novels for a decade from the late 1980s onward, and more recently focused on novels of the fantastic (not including sf) he has also become involved in films as screenwriter and producer. (1960- ) UK journalist, screenwriter and author, in the US from 1992, whose first publications were nonfiction along with later essays, some of this earlier work has been assembled as The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (coll 2016).

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