This is a very lukewarm defense, but this subject is something of a trope that shows up in various artists’ works. On the top of my head, I can say that it is a subject in a short story by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, as well as in Osamu Tezuka’s “Ayako”, both published way before Gaiman’s “Sandman” story. So I personally do not attribute too much importance to his story. His actions speak for themselves.
Aside from it being kinda tropey, can’t really say that every author is “practicing what they preach” so to speak. Stephen King had a child orgy scene in “It”, and lord knows all the other wacky shit he’s written about in the other 50+ books he’s put out in his career and he’s an entirely normal well adjusted dude from what I’ve seen. Similarly, Junji Ito is a buttercup IRL but reading some of his stuff you’d think he was a serial killer, or at least someone who should be heavily medicated.
Stephen King is most certainly not a normal well adjusted dude. He has seemingly achieved this through great personal hardship. At one point he probably did more drugs in a month than I have in my entire life, and I love drugs.
But yeah that fucked up bastard can write a child orgy scene without ever wanting to harm children.
Edit- King has had to take over production on at least one if not more movies because the drugs were flying so hard. And he was a drug addict himself at the time! He’s amazing.
This is a very lukewarm defense, but this subject is something of a trope that shows up in various artists’ works. On the top of my head, I can say that it is a subject in a short story by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, as well as in Osamu Tezuka’s “Ayako”, both published way before Gaiman’s “Sandman” story. So I personally do not attribute too much importance to his story. His actions speak for themselves.
Aside from it being kinda tropey, can’t really say that every author is “practicing what they preach” so to speak. Stephen King had a child orgy scene in “It”, and lord knows all the other wacky shit he’s written about in the other 50+ books he’s put out in his career and he’s an entirely normal well adjusted dude from what I’ve seen. Similarly, Junji Ito is a buttercup IRL but reading some of his stuff you’d think he was a serial killer, or at least someone who should be heavily medicated.
Stephen King is most certainly not a normal well adjusted dude. He has seemingly achieved this through great personal hardship. At one point he probably did more drugs in a month than I have in my entire life, and I love drugs.
But yeah that fucked up bastard can write a child orgy scene without ever wanting to harm children.
Edit- King has had to take over production on at least one if not more movies because the drugs were flying so hard. And he was a drug addict himself at the time! He’s amazing.
Did you check with their girlfriends?
Steven King has been married to his wife since 1971.