I was cruising through Vertigo Comics site the other day and came across their Vertigo #1s site, on which you can download .pdf versions of some of their comics for free. It really is a cool idea and a good way to find new reading material. On that site I found Neil Gaiman’s The Books of Magic for download (since it is Vertigo, the comic is for Mature Readers, whatever that means).
I read on Gaiman’s site that there have been comparisons drawn between The Books of Magic and Harry Potter (The Books of Magic was released first). For example, The Books of Magic are about a kid who wears glasses, does magic, and has a pet owl. In reading the first twenty pages of the book, though, I think the similarities are mostly superficial.
Here is the wikipedia entry for The Books of Magic.
Anyhow, I figured all of you Gaiman fans would be interested in this. Enjoy!
The Struggling Writer 
Thank you.. I am a Gaiman fan so will check it out..
mermaidsmuse – no problem. I hope you enjoy it.
I never thought of that…but then again, these similiarities are so superficial (like you said) that I completely forgot about them until now.
Thanks! I haven’t read this yet.
I’ve just read “Coraline”, which you’ve recommended not so long ago, and I liked it a lot. It’s very good! Thank you!
So where can I download them? D: I don´t seem to find any link or anything into this page.
None of that is free anymore. Bummer. I’ve been trying to find Gaiman’s Age of Magic #17 forever.
Yeah, sorry about that.
No worries. I found it. I just had to dig a bit deeper.