Knockabout

By downloading a few free Neil Gaiman comics, you could help cure a disease that affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Knockabout Comics and the digital iPad comics app Sequential are collaborating to offer a free digital download of a collection of "lost" Gaiman comics -- including work with artists Bryan Talbot and Dave McKean -- scripts, interviews and more, to help raise m

There's a downside to being a fictional character in heroic literature, aside from being beholden to the whims of an author or the deadly danger a character is so often subjected to. The role requires a certain remove from the rest of humanity, and warm, reciprocal relationships with others...