Neil Gaiman is one of a very small number of people (the only other who springs to mind is Marcel Marceau) who have singlehandedly changed my mind about an entire art form. In 1991 I didn't read comics (except for The Beano between the ages of about 7 and 10) and then in early 1992 a friend lent me Preludes and Nocturnes. Now I have about 2500 issues of assorted comics in boxes in the attic, and am adding to that at a rate of about ten issues a month.