The story, for those who are not familiar with any of the above, concerns a director who, whilst planning for his biggest, best film, learns that he has cancer, and only a short time to live. There is a stage adaptation by Marc Rosenbush and Robert Toombs from 1999, and Dave McKean has been writing about work to turn it into a film, which, to my knowledge, is currently on ice, but which I look forward to, should it ever materialise. Neil then re-wrote it into a Radio play, with music by Dave McKean, in 1996 (and released on CD in 2000). I must have been too young and superficial at the time, I suspect) in 1989, and then collected into a Graphic Novel in 1992. Signal to Noise was originally published in serialised form in The Face, the UK 'style' magazine (I remember some of it from those days, although it passed me by. This is a re-publication of this story written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean, with a long and slightly convoluted history leading to the form you can now (re)purchase for your enjoyment.
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