Neil Gaiman's description of meeting Kevin Smith

[fairyrune]

I LOL'd IRL.

(From here.)

"On the other hand, my appearance on Kevin Smith's list of the five coolest people I've met at the San Diego Comic-Con http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/07/kevin-smith-comic-con.html put me in mind of the time I encountered Kevin Smith. It was round the back of the San Diego Convention Centre, near the loading bay. I was on my way to a panel when a gentleman with a kerchief-mask covering his lower face, holding a brace of pistols and wearing a rakish tricorn hat leapt out and demanded my wallet, and to dance a measure with my female companions. Obviously, I was having none of it, and with a cry of "Never, miscreant!" I stumbled into the fray. During our struggle the kerchief-mask slipped and I was shocked to see that our attacker was in fact director, writer and raconteur Kevin Smith himself. He fled, dropping my wallet and also several of the original Graphitti Buddy Christ and Jay & Silent Bob toys.

I can only presume that Mr Smith's description of me in EW as "a sweetheart" was due to the fact that I did not turn him in that day to the San Diego magistrates that day to be hanged and gibbeted as a common highwayman or footpad."

Comments

[pinball351.livejournal.com]

mwahahaha!

[mynock25.livejournal.com]

Kevin Smith commented about that...

"The 19 year old SANDMAN fan in me just came: @neilhimself wrote my name into a story! Well, kinda... http://tinyurl.com/ll3v5k (near bottom)"

""Never, miscreant!"@neilhimself paints himself as a hapless dandy in his ComiCon scenario but clearly HE was the aggressor. At least Orally."

[gkingsley.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing this - I was wondering what KS's reaction was to NG's description of their first meeting. I know the 19-year-old Sandman in *me* would have had the same reation to being mention in Neils' blog. :)