WARNING: You may want to grab a box of tissues before you read this post about Neil Gaiman and his dog. I'm dead serious.

Today's links, featuring a Twitter conversation regarding Neil Gaiman's world-changing hat, a cat speaking to the internet, and a dog who catches fish.

Today's links, featuring a cat who didn't choose the rug life and our favorite photoshop in the "Neil Gaiman and a flamingo" meme pantheon.

In 2005, Neil Gaiman pitched a 'Sandman' movie to Warner using Jill Thompson's concept art. Now that art can be viewed and purchased.

For the 25th anniversary of 'Sandman', Neil Gaiman and artist J. H. Williams III are making a new prequel miniseries. We react via gifs.

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Neil Gaiman addressed the graduating class of 2012 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia last Thursday, and the video is now online so we can glean the wisdom all those other suckers had to pay $34,840 per year to hear.

Upon hearing that DC Comics is releasing prequels to Watchmen, members of Twitter were predictably catty.

Back in the early-90s Image Comics, and Todd McFarlane's Spawn in particular, were flying high, but it wasn't enough for ol' Todd that every issue of Spawn was selling well over a million copies, he wanted people to think the comic was actually, you know, good.