Paging Laura Miller.
Someone want (kindly but firmly) to explain to Ms. Miller and Salon’s crack team of copyeditors that Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore are not one and the same? —Though props nonetheless for attempting to recognize Dave Gibbons’ and David Lloyd’s respective work on Watchmen and V for Vendetta by crediting the (incorrect, but) scripter as a “co-author.” (Of course, I’m just assuming that’s what she meant by “co-author.” It could be that somehow the idea’d been gotten that Moore and Gaiman worked together on those books… “Stephen Sondheim, co-author of Jesus Christ Superstar—”
(Anyway.)
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Okay, they fixed it. But did they have to yank the references to comics entirely? “By the co-author of graphic novels Violent Cases and Mister Punch and the author of last year’s bestseller American Gods...”
originally revised 3 June, 08.02