Magian Line

The Newsletters | Images and artwork

Welcome to the new installment of Sadie McFarlane's fanzine, Magian Line, on the web. This fanzine contains interviews and artwork (amongsth other things).

Choose an issue --------------- Magian Line 1.1 (April, 1993) Magian Line 1.2 (July, 1993) Magian Line 1.3 (September, 1993) Magian Line 1.4 (February, 1994) Magian Line 2.1 (July, 1994) Magian Line 2.2 (October, 1994) Magian Line 2.3 (April, 1995) Magian Line 2.4 (December, 1995) Magian Line 3.1 (August, 1996) Magian Line 3.2 (July, 1997) Magian Line 3.3 (Spring, 1998) --------------- Neil Gaiman Bibliography (August, 1996)

In the box below you can choose between all the 11 issues of Magian Line. The newsletters each contain an exclusive interview with Neil, and lots of other interesting stuff such as poetry and fan-reviews. You can also read Lance "Squiddie" Smith´s Neil Bibliography.

All of the spiffy artwork and images from the newsletters are gathered here. Each text-link leads to the chosen image.

Magian Line 1.1

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A "droodle" of Neil's, done on Parc Oakland Hotel stationary while he was staying there for the '93 WonderCon.

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A Bryan Talbot "Morpheus", originally drawn for the April '93 Glasgow Comic Art Convention booklet, to be raffled/auctioned off for charity.

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Jill Thompson's "Li'l Neil", by special request.

Magian Line 1.2

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Kathy Marschall drew this "Neil Caiman", based on a misspelling she saw in an article.

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Mark Buckingham's "Death"

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The pencils for the first page of Shea Anton Pensa's art in Sandman #55, a portion of which appeared in Magian Line 1.2.

Magian Line 1.3

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Sergio Aragones obliged me at the '93 San Diego Comic Con, with this portrait of himself drawing his Cain and Abel trading card.

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Bryan Talbot's inks of Death (the final version was in the Death Gallery collection).

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Matt Wagner did this Morph sketch in a couple of minutes for me, at a Grendel signing he did at Comics Experience in San Francisco.

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Matt Wagner did this Rob Davis, who draws most of the Star Trek books, did this ink of his favorite of Neil's characters.

Magian Line 1.4

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Phil Foglio did a sketch of how to spot Neil when he's trying to be incognito at Cons. (He's saying "Blimey! How 'bout that Lobo, huh? What pathos!", and carrying a bag that says "I rode in the awesome SPAWN MOBILE!")

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Craig Hamilton did this Dream, originally for a blow-in for a book buyer's catalog.

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P. Craig Russell did this portrait of Neil, which adorned the Dreamhaven Books ad for "Angels and Visititations", which ran in Magian Line 1.3 and 1.4

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Matt Wagner did this Rob Davis, who draws most of the Star Trek books, did this ink of his favorite of Neil's characters.

Misc images

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Neil on the set of Neverwhere. Photo by Kelli Bickman

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And another - gazing intently at something in the stygian gloom. As above, photo by Kelli Bickman.

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From Charles Vess's "Book of Ballads and Sagas" San Diego ComicCon Preview. Neil scripted Vess's depiction of "False Knight on the Road" - apparently in the ashcan, he hadn't gotten all of the script in just yet.

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A reader of this here home page sent this - double sketch of Mr. Punch by Neil and Dave McKean, from a signing in New York. Thanks, Jason!

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Cool fan art by Magian Line stalwart Fred Cleveland. A lovely form of thank you note, and I'm glad Fred enjoyed the "Don't Ask Jack" poster!

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Promo photo of Neil, used for the Magian Line flyer.

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The cover of Heliogobalus, Neil's "24 hour comic" ashcan, signed by Neil. 300 of these were given away to the first 300 Magian Line members. This is all that's left...

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Neil tossed off this sketch of his best-known character for a friend of mine (by beseechment), Den Pepa of The Organization.