babycakes | Neil Gaiman and Jouni Koponen

A few days Gaiman posted this link to his blog. Someone(this Jouni person) had taken his story and put pictures to it the same way a composer might set a poem to music.

Gaiman was incredibly cool about someone appropriating his work in this way. without permission And it was very nice of him to direct the fifty thousand daily readers of his blog (really) to Jouni’s site. So nice, that we crashed it.

I first read this story (sans illustrations) six or seven years ago, sometime about the time of my son’s first birthday. Gaiman wrote it for an anthology to benefit PETA.

It’s a parable of sorts. A particularly distastful one.

For the record, Gaiman wears leather and eats meat.