ComicCon: Neil Gaiman Receives 2007 ComicCon Icon Award

(The Spike TV display on the convention floor.)

Spike TV just announced that prolific genre writer Neil Gaiman - the British author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films - is the recipient of the 2007 ComicCon Icon Award.

(Gaiman speaking.)

Said Gaiman to the crowd immediately after the award was announced: "It's a wonderful thing to learn that you're an icon. I've never been an icon before. Maybe they will make little models of me now. And put me on car dash boards and that will help you get parking spaces. I'm honored, I'm flattered, I'm thrilled."

Gaiman will be honored before a national audience during Spike's 2007 Scream Awards which tape on Friday, Oct. 19 at the Greek Theatre in LA. The show airs Tues, Oct. 23 on Spike. Spike TV started the Scream award to honor the genre of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic books, long over-looked by mainstream Hollywood.

Comments

[mary mcnamara]

Thanks, David, for the additional info re, the Comic-Con Icon Award. Actually, tho - I didn't say that Spike initiated or owned the Icon Award. But, given the lack of detail on the Icons and the juxtaposition, I can see how the reader could confuse the two. and thanks for posting! mm

[David]

The Icon Award is actually a Comic-Con Award that was created by Comic-Con to be given, specifically, to someone who has helped to promote comic books and art to a wider audience.

The Scream Awards is a production of Spike TV that was created to honor the genre of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic books, long over-looked by mainstream Hollywood.

The Icon Award belongs to Comic-Con but is given out at the national awards show in partnership with Spike TV