A Sense of Doubt blog post #4017 - The Return of Neil Gaiman - Proof of Innocence?
Neil Gaiman is readying a return to the world of publications and projects.
A little over a year ago, the news broke of accusations against him for sexual abuse.
But Gaiman has made a statement and appears to be readying a new project launch.
Here's the story.
Neil Gaiman Resurfaces after a Year of Silence Denying Allegations and Pointing to a Substack Newsletter as Proof of Innocence
It’s been a little over a year since a bombshell article revealed details of abuse by Neil Gaiman towards multiple individuals. Vulture released an article full of graphic allegations including sexual assault painting a picture of a man with no respect for boundaries. Gaiman mostly retreated from everything, taking some fights to court. Now, Gaiman has posted to Instagram claiming his innocence and linking to a Substack newsletter named TechnoPathology, which bills itself as the “Neil Gaiman is Innocent” project. It is all believed to be a lead up to a new project to be released by Gaiman.
In his post, Gaiman states:
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything anywhere, but I didn’t want to let any more time go without thanking everyone for all your kind messages of support over the last year and a half.
I’ve learned firsthand how effective a smear campaign can be, so to be clear:
The allegations against me are completely and simply untrue. There are emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict them.
These allegations, especially the really salacious ones, have been spread and amplified by people who seemed a lot more interested in outrage and getting clicks on headlines rather than whether things had actually happened or not. (They didn’t.)
One thing that’s kept me going through all this madness is the conviction that the truth would, eventually, come out. I expected that when the allegations were first made there would be journalism, and that the journalism would take the (mountains of) evidence into account, and was astonished to see how much of the reporting was simply an echo chamber, and how the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored.
I was a journalist once, and I have enormous respect for journalists, so I’ve been hugely heartened by the meticulous fact and evidence-based investigative writing of one particular journalist, whom some of you recently brought to my attention, who writes under the name of TechnoPathology.
I’ve had no contact with TechnoPathology. But I’d like to thank them personally for actually looking at the evidence and reporting what they found, which is not what anyone else had done.
If you are curious about what they’ve uncovered so far, the clickable link in my bio takes you to really good investigative reporting.
It’s been a strange, turbulent and occasionally nightmarish year and a half, but I took my own advice (when things get tough, make good art) and once I was done with making television I went back to doing something else I love even more: writing.
I thought it was going to be a fairly short project when I began it, but it’s looking like it’s going to be the biggest thing I’ve done since American Gods. It’s already much longer than The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and it’s barely finished wiping its boots and hanging up its coat.
And I spend half of every month being a full-time Dad, and that remains the best bit of my life.
It’s a rough time for the world. I look at what’s happening on the home front and internationally, and I worry; and I am still convinced there are more good people out there than the other kind.
Thank you again to so many of you for your belief in my innocence and your support for my work.
It has meant the world to me.
Neil
The ‘Neil Gaiman Is Innocent’ weaves a theory that the creator was targeted by an anti-trans conspiracy and that the allegations engaged in antisemitic tropes.
Gaiman and his former partner Amanda Palmer were eventually sued for sexual assault and human trafficking. That was eventually dismissed as it was deemed it was the incorrect venue for the lawsuit. He did sue one accuser over breaking an NDA. He has not sued any publications for libel and making false accusations or released any of the “emails, text messages and video evidence” that contradicts accusations.
Numerous publishers stopped releasing projects based on Gaiman’s work including Dark Horse an DC Comics. While the second season of The Sandman was released by Netflix, other projects were put on the shelf.
As we stated in our original article, Gaiman’s name kept resurfacing as a person expected to be hit with scandal like this, though when pressed, we were never provided details. It’s unlikely the latest statement by Gaiman, nor the Substack account, will sway public opinion.
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