

Since he wasn't having much luck fighting crime, Alfred hired some of his actor friends to be Batman's rogue's gallery, with Alfred himself portraying the Joker! In the second, Alfred tells about Bruce going off the deep end and becoming Batman after his parents died. In the first story, Catwoman gives her tale of her relationship with Batman and how he died, bleeding to death on her couch after a freak gunshot wound. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader is a good example.

The thing I've always liked about Neil Gaiman's comics are that they're about something. His friends and foes are assembled to give their respects and tell how Batman died. So there's a funeral in a church in crime alley. He also co-wrote Good Omens with Terry Pratchett.So I'm caving in and getting the individual issues for this. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards The Wolves in the Walls and The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009. His other adult books include: Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999 American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards and Anansi Boys. His most recent adult title, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, has won numerous awards, most notably: the British National Book Awards, Book of the Year for 2013, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014. Gaiman writes both children and adult books. It is the comic book he is most famous for and the series has won every major industry award, including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman.

Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch and The Observer. Gaiman worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960.
