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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Interestingly, on Gaiman and attribution, he came out with a graphic novel, The Books of Magic, with a main character very similar to Harry Potter. This was 7 years prior to Rowlings publishing the first book. His response to that similarity was equally charitable, chalking it to creators tapping into the same unconscious material. Dude seems to have integrity. I could see another person grousing at the parallels between the two.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Neil Gaiman was close friends with the legendary Terry Pratchett. There's no doubt he's a better human being than Joanne.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wait, if Terry Pratchett is just a legend, who wrote all those Discworld novels??

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

They probably just manifested in the library one day. That, or they are taken from L-space.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Wizard did it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Interestingly, on Gaiman and attribution, he came out with a graphic novel, The Books of Magic, with a main character very similar to Harry Potter. This was 7 years prior to Rowlings publishing the first book. His response to that similarity was equally charitable, chalking it to creators tapping into the same unconscious material.

Before either you had Luke Kirby in 2000AD. While it's debatable whether Rowling would have been reading Vertigo comic books, Gaiman wrote for 2000AD.