{"id":54,"date":"2005-10-02T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:41:04","slug":"mirrormask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/mirrormask\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirrormask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mirrormask<\/em> is an utterly gorgeous collaboration between Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman<\/a>, who are so good together that I admit to a little disappointment on the occasions when they work apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I especially recommend reading the screenplay<\/a>; one of the few scripts I’ve ever read that stands on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mirrormask is an utterly gorgeous collaboration between Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, who are so good together that I admit to a little disappointment on the occasions when they work apart. I especially recommend reading the screenplay; one of the few scripts I’ve ever read that stands on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1354,31],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-stars","category-movies","tag-dave-mckean","tag-neil-gaiman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/10\/mirrormask-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":567,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-january-2-2007\/","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for January 2, 2007","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"January 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"33 new drawings by Dave McKean (no longer online: subterraneanpress.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=gaiman&amp;Category_Code=B&Product_Count=36) for the Mirrormask script book (spotted on Neil Gaiman's Journal)","rel":"","context":"In "The Dork Report"","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1475,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/coraline\/","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":1},"title":"The Only Child: Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick’s Coraline","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"February 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw Henry Selick and Neil Gaiman's Coraline on its opening day in my favorite movie theater, the best possible venue to see any remotely visually ambitious movie: the Clearview Ziegfeld in New York City. 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