

This series, which is published in three issues, tells the story of the mystical Black Orchid, who is a strange flower. This is when he wrote a limited series called Black Orchid in collaboration with Dave McKean once again. Make your mistakes, next year and forever. Neil Gaiman’s collaboration with Dave McKean caught the attention of DC comics, who hired him in 1987.


Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.īecause if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphias. So potent was his advice on courage and the creative life that the speech was adapted into Make Good Art- a gem of a book designed by Chip Kidd.Ī wise woman once said, “If you are not making mistakes, you’re not taking enough risks.” Gaiman articulates the same sentiment with his own brand of exquisite eloquence: Buy a cheap copy of Make Good Art book by Neil Gaiman. Among the greatest commencement addresses is an extraordinary speech author Neil Gaiman delivered in 2012 at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.
