update!

Yes, this is what used to be the "Neil Gaiman in Manila" Event Website. But I'll be reformatting that site into a local Gaiman fansite, so while I work on that, I switched to Blogger to be able to continually post links and other updates. Thanks for your continued support of the site. :)

For your reference, the original site can be found here

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28 JULY 2005
Donna wrote in to share a link to David Mack's rendition of Death. Click here to view it. Apparently, the print is for sale! You can check out how to purchase that through this link. Thanks for sharing that with us, Donna! :)

The Moderator of the gaiman_fullybooked mailing list announced some time ago that she won't be checking messages as regularly as before the event, so if anyone still has links or articles or artwork or anything else they want to share with fellow Neil Gaiman fans, you may eMail me (acrossthestars@gmail.com), and I'll just post them here for everyone. :)

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26 JULY 2005
Another article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
The Final Word from "The Man" by Tals Diaz.

More pictures are up at Azrael's Event Website. Click here. Photos by Azrael Coladilla and Ariel Atienza.

Chiqui went to The Gathering in a Death costume. Read about her experience at the event here.

Megabyte made a Gaiman-inspired artpad. Click here.

Charles Tan also has a partial transcript of the NU 107 interview, which can be found here. He's been doing a good job transcribing Neil's interviews for us. You guys might want to drop by his blog to check out his transcripts for the Jam interview and the Writers' Forum also. :) Thanks, Charles.

I also got a request from Winnie to post the winners of the Raffle and Art Contest. Here they are:

NEIL GAIMAN ART COMPETITION WINNERS
1st Prize: ROM VILLASERAN (Untitled)
2nd Prize: APOL STA.MARIA (Coraline and the Other Mother)
3rd Prize: JILDA MINERVA MACASPAC III (Lady Una From Stardust)

Runner-Ups:
GIOVANNI ROLDAN (Lucifer)
JONATHAN LAU (Untitled)
LIONEL EDWARD YUMUL (Sandman and Death)
HEUBERT KHAN MICHAEL (Untitled)
HIYASMIN DE GUZMAN (Yvaine, The Lady of Stormhold)

NEIL GAIMAN RAFFLE WINNERS
1st Prize: DAWN BRITANICO (Stub #0838)
2nd Prize: CARINA SANTOS (Stub #2276)
3rd Prize: ISA CARANCHO (Stub #1787)

WOLVES IN THE WALLS POSTER WINNERS
NOELLE GRACE PICO (Stub #0860)
KATHLEEN JOYCE RODRIGUEZ (Stub #2100)
VICENTE DY (Stub #1211)
IZA CARUNCHO (Stub #1787)
JESSICA COCABO (Stub #0357)
VOLTAIRE SAN JUAN (Stub #1515)
EMILY BOMASANG (Stub #1662)
AURORA CREEH (Stub #2376)
JEREMY ONGONGCO (Stub #0929)
JAMIE ALARCON (Stub #0984)

I'm not sure if anyone has a complete compilation of photos of all the art contest entries. Winnie asked about that too. But photos of the winning entries are up at the Gaiman-FB Mailing List and there are some photos at Azrael's event website.

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22 JULY 2005
Fully Booked wants everyone to know that requests for refunds of Gaiman books will be entertained until July 31, 2005 only.

More blog and photo album links:
- Arthur
- Carmen
- Maila

An article on The Gathering posted at Globalpinoy.com. Click here. Thanks to Chey at Nocturne for the alert.

Charles Tan also posted his transcript of the Jam 88.3 review by Erin Chupeco. Click here. Thanks, Charles! :)

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21 JULY 2005
This just in. Donna wrote to share her online album of the event with everyone. Click here to view it.

Uploaded the complete Gaiman series of Beerkada strips here. Or at least all the ones that were previously published. Click here to view them. Thanks, Lyndon and Lei! :)

Anansi Girl updated her blog with Day 2 of what she calls "GaimanDays". According to her, there are pics and crazy fan stories, so... click click click here to read!

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20 JULY 2005
The Neil Gaiman book signing is the topic of this week's Beerkada comic strips by Lyndon Gregorio, published in The Philippine Star. Here are the links for:
the July 19 strip and
the July 20 strip
For the life of me, I've never been able to trace the older strips. The Philippine Star's website's archive feature doesn't seem to be working. More links when I find them. :)

Some photos taken during the event may be found here. Thanks to Chico of Nocturne.

"More dreamtime with Neil Gaiman" by Ruel de Vera

Links to audio files from "The Gathering", 9 July, courtesy of Neil Risos of Nocturne:
Link 1
Link 2

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19 JULY 2005
Here are links to a couple more articles about Neil's visit. They were published in Business World:
"Waiting for Gaiman" by Arnold Belleza
"You like me, you really, really like me." by Josefa Labay Cagoco

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18 JULY 2005
2:58pm
Thanks to Astrid Tobias for pointing me to the blog butasnachucks.blogspot.com. The blog owner uploaded a link to the complete version of the NU 107 interview. I'm in the process of downloading it and hopefully I can put up a transcript soon.

TV Personality RJ Ledesma wrote an article about Neil for The Manila Times. Click here to read the online version. Thanks to Azrael for the tip.

11:30am
Thanks to Neil Risos of Nocturne, and with the blessings of Erin Chupeco, who won the Jam 88.3 contest, here's the transcript of that interview. :)

8:15am
More links to people blogging about their Gaiman experience:
- Erin (who won the Jam 88.3 contest to interview Neil!)
- Ayn
- Ariel Atienza
- more accounts about the Gateway signing from Quel, a fellow volunteer
- Ceejay (another fellow volunteer)
- Eula
- Iya

Mr. Budjette Tan also informed us through the Fully Booked mailing list that there are some recordings of the Writers' Forum available here through the kindness of Mr. Andre Quintos.

NU 107 also replayed their interview last Saturday. Unfortunately, I was at the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Book Launch at Fully Booked. If anyone was able to record the whole thing or if anyone has a transcript, please do email me at: acrossthestars@gmail.com. Thanks! :)

Iya also sent me a message through YM and gave me a link to a page where she uploaded some video snippets of Neil talking about Filipino mythology. She apologizes that the video is... uh... tilted. :D

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15 JULY 2005
Received word through Fully Booked that the MTV Hanging Out segment with Neil will be shown on August 5, and not today, as previously announced. Please take note of that. :)

More fans have been giving links to their blogs, detailing their experiences. Here's another set of links:
Mark
Ava_Irune
Megabyte
and my own! :)

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14 JULY 2005
An updated version of the Writers' Forum transcript courtesy of Charles Tan may be accessed through this link.

Fellow fans have started to calm down enough to blog about their experiences during Neil's visit here. Here are some links:
Kage Gozun
Azrael
Karen Kristie
Anansi Girl

Azrael's Photo Coverage Site has also been updated, so head on there to see more event photos. He's allowing people to use his photos, just be sure to credit him properly. :)

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13 JULY 2005
Schedules of airings of Neil's interviews:

JAM 88.3
Date: July 13, 2005
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM
Topic: an interview with the winner of the "Neil Gaiman Book Review"
contest
Host: DJ Lana
Show: "Shelve It"

MTV
Date: July 15, 2005
Time: 5:00 PM
Show: MTV's "Hanging Out"

The Manila Bulletin also published a special section about Neil today. If anyone can make scans that we can upload here, kindly send them to:
acrossthestars@gmail.com
Thanks to Tania for the tip. :)

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13 JULY 2005
An article by Ruel de Vera appeared on the Inquirer today. Click on the link below to read the inq7.net version:
Daring to dream with Neil Gaiman

Mr. Charles Tan also kindly posted a transcript of the Writers' Forum last July 11 on his blog:
Writers' Forum Transcript, part 1
Also, here are links to relevant journal entries on Neil's blog:
Mr. Punch and the Fountain Pen
I go, farewell. Farewell, I go.
Ten happy little fingers and they're mine all mine... (Where he notes that he is now addicted to calamansi juice. :p )
"My friends are gone and my hair is grey..."
In the Tent
Open Secrets
Welcome to Manila

Here's a pic from Anansi Girl's blog of Neil and his first bottle of calamansi juice. :p

And finally, Fully Booked gave out instructions for those who want refunds through the Mailing List, but I'm reposting the instructions below for those who aren't subscribed there:

For those who wish to get refunds on their Neil Gaiman Items, you may
claim this from the specific branch/ store that you purchased the said
item/ s from. All you need to do is:
1) Present your receipt
2) In the absence of a receipt, your book signing pass (regardless of
whether they were punched or not) or show that your item/s possesses
the Fully Booked, Bibliarch or Sketch Books price tag.

And if you guys know of any other links to articles, photo albums, blogs, or transcripts, please do email them to me so I can share them with the rest of the fans:
acrossthestars@gmail.com

Thanks so much! :)

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12 JULY 2005
Some fans have shared their photos from the event!
Azrael's Event Site
Karen Kristie's Photo Album