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MAKEGOOD ART

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FAN-TASTIC MIS-TAKES

Neil Gaiman’s‘Make Good Art’speech.

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In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman stood at a podium at Philadel-phia’s University of the Arts to deliver the commencement address. For the next nineteen minutes he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength; he encouraged the students before him to break rules and think out-side the box. Most of all, he urged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to MAKE GOOD ART. This book, designed by renowned graphic artist Chip Kidd, contains the full text of Gaiman’s inspiring speech. Whether bestowed upon a young artist beginning his or her creative journey, or given as a token of gratitude to an admired mentor, or acquired as a gift to oneself, this volume is a fitting offering for anyone who strives to MAKE GOOD ART.

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and thinking


now what


This speech was originally delivered to the

University of the Arts Class of 2012, and

you can watch me saying it at

http://vimeo.com/42372767

Neil Gaimanand am grateful to her.

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http://vimeo.com/42372767

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Something that worked for me was imagining that where I wanted to be—

an author, primarily of fiction, making good books, mak-ing good comics, and supporting myself through my words

— was a mountain.

A d i s t a n t m o u n t a i n .

M y g o a l .

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The things I’ve done that worked the best were the things I was the least certain about, the stories where I was sure they would either work, or more likely be the kinds of embar-rassing failures people would gather together and talk about until the end of time. They always had that in common: looking back at them, people explain why they were inevitable successes. While I was doing them,

I h a d n o i d e a .

I s t i l l d o n ’ t .

And where would be the fun in making something you knew was going to work?


A n d s o m e t i m e s t h e t h i n g s

I d i d r e a l l y d i d n ’ t w o r k .

There are stories of mine that have never been reprinted. Some of them never even left the house.

But I learned as much from them as I did

from the things that worked.


6ixthly:

I will pass on some secret free-

lancer knowledge. Secret knowl-

edge is always good. And it is use-

ful for anyone who ever plans to

create art for other people, to en-

ter a freelance world of any kind. I

learned it in comics, but it applies

to other fields too. And it ’s this:

People get hired because, somehow, they get hired. In my case I did something which these days would be easy to check, and would get me into trouble, and when I started out, in those pre- Internet days, seemed like a sensible career strategy: when I was asked by editors who I’d worked for, I lied. I listed a handful of magazines that sounded likely, and I sounded confident, and I got jobs. I then made it a point of honour to have written something for each of the magazines I’d listed to get that first job, so that I hadn’t actually lied, I’d just been chronologically challenged . . .

You get work however you get work.


Pe o p l e k e e p w o r k i n g , i n a f r e e l a n c e w o r l d ,

a n d m o r e a n d m o r e o f t o d a y ’s w o r l d i s f r e e l a n c e ,

b e c a u s e


And you don’t have to be as good as the others if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.


When I agreed to give this address,

I started trying to think what

the best advice I’d been given

over the years was.


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Neil Gaiman is the critically acclaimed, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, stories, graphic novels, children’s books, and screenplays. Origi-nally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States. He fears the Fraud Police.

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer in New York City. He tries to make good art, but mostly just makes mistakes. Whether or not any of them are interesting, amazing, glorious, or fantastic is anyone’s guess.


“This is

really great.

You should

enjoy it.”

—S. K.

“This is

really great.

You should

enjoy it.”

—S. K.


MAKEGOOD ART

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On Sale May 14, 2013

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