Did you know that when you signed my girlfriend's lower back (at Vromans Book Store in Pasadena, 1999) that she went to a tattoo parlor right afterward to have the moment made permanent?
How do you deal with this kind of (admittedly deserved) fan appreciation?
I was at a Gaiman signing for The Wolves in the Walls a number of weeks ago in lower Manhattan. One of the questions from the audience was something along the lines of "What's the strangest thing you've ever had to sign?"
Gaiman's response was that a few years ago, a woman asked him to sign her breast. After doing so, she turned around and exclaimed with glee "NOW, you'll ALWAYS remember me!" He said that he didn't have the heart to tell her how many people had already pulled the same stunt with him...
He also admitted that he was a little freaked out by the people who tattooed his signature into their skin./EJS
I believe his full description of one of the people who'd had his name tattooed into them was that there were still little droplets of blood everywhere.. Ewww. He's a great speaker though. I was at that Borders signing and the "NY Is Book Country" talk on Saturday - He read the Despair story out of endless nights, and what's going to be a new McKean/Gaiman children's book "Crazy Hair" (Which had apparantly started just as a sort of joke poem.) Gaiman signings are very worth it. He's a very personable author
Tattoos and other forms of fan appreciation (Score:4, Interesting)
Did you know that when you signed my girlfriend's lower back (at Vromans Book Store in Pasadena, 1999) that she went to a tattoo parlor right afterward to have the moment made permanent?
How do you deal with this kind of (admittedly deserved) fan appreciation?
Kind regards,
Michael Judge
SurveyComplete
P.S. American Gods and Coraline are fantastic!
Re:Tattoos and other forms of fan appreciation (Score:5, Interesting)
Gaiman's response was that a few years ago, a woman asked him to sign her breast. After doing so, she turned around and exclaimed with glee "NOW, you'll ALWAYS remember me!" He said that he didn't have the heart to tell her how many people had already pulled the same stunt with him...
He also admitted that he was a little freaked out by the people who tattooed his signature into their skin.
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He's a great speaker though. I was at that Borders signing and the "NY Is Book Country" talk on Saturday - He read the Despair story out of endless nights, and what's going to be a new McKean/Gaiman children's book "Crazy Hair" (Which had apparantly started just as a sort of joke poem.)
Gaiman signings are very worth it. He's a very personable author
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