in the morning, the British-born Gaiman will climb on a plane — where he'll finish writing an article on Superman — for the Addams Family–style house near Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has lived since 1992. There he will knuckle down to his screen adaptation of Charles Burns' teen-horror, graphic-novel series Black Hole. Then, Gaiman must deliver the first of six issues of The Eternals, a resurrected Marvel Comics creation from the '70s. Oh, and he also needs to finish a book of short stories, as well as The Graveyard Book, a tale of an orphan child being raised by dead people. In his spare time, he may swing by Los Angeles to see how Roger Zemeckis' animated version of Beowulf, for which Gaiman rewrote the oldest epic in the English language, is coming along.

O que que eu tenho que fazer agora para, daqui a uns 15 anos (o tempo que o Gaiman levou), virar um free-lancer assim?

Falando nisso, Anansi Boys sai aqui mês que vem. O título em português, Filhos de Anansi parece ser de uma publicação de algum terreiro bahiano. O Gaiman provavelmente gostaria de saber disso.