With unprecedented access to Gaiman's personal archives, author Hayley Campbell with full cooperation from Neil , tells the story of Neil's life and his art in gorgeous color. With characters like Coraline and the Sandman to his name, Neil Gaiman is one of the best-loved authors in the world today, a creative force in comics, fiction, and the movies and TV, a serial award-winner, and a social media phenomenon whose every work is a guaranteed number-one bestseller. His passionate following of fans numbers millions, but few know the story of how he became the worldwide star he is today, or the private side of the many creative collaborations that have consistently inspired others to produce some of their best work. The Art of Neil Gaiman changes all this--told in Neil's own words and enriched with visuals from his own archive. Author Hayley Campbell brilliantly evokes the literary and comics scene of 1980s London and places pop culture milestones in the context of a busy, multistranded creative life--making sense of Gaiman's diverse career, relating it to his storytelling gifts, his talent for being in the right place at the right time, and his passionate drive to--as he himself has put it--"Make Good Art." His millions of fans will learn how a jobbing book reviewer became a cultural phenomen. They will get the inside track on Gaiman's successful collaborations with artists, musicians, and film makers. They will discover surprising visuals from Neil's personal archive, including first drafts, poems, sketches, and previously unseen art form his collaborators.

This gorgeous book will be much coveted by the millions of fans worldwide who eagerly await Gaiman's next creative endeavor.