A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil
Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell. The world always
seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.-Neil Gaiman Drawn from
Gaiman's trove of published speeches poems and creative manifestos Art Matters is an
embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's vision-an exploration of how reading
imagining and creating can transform the world and our lives. Art Matters bring together four
of Gaiman's most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: Credo his remarkably concise and
relevant manifesto on free expression first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo
shootings Make Good Art his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia
University of the Arts Making a Chair a poem about the joys of creating something even when
words won't come On Libraries an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their
importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers Featuring
original illustrations by Gaiman's longtime illustrator Chris Riddell Art Matters is a
stirring testament to the freedom of ideas that inspires us to make art in the face of
adversity and dares us to choose to be bold.
