Have I mentioned that I love Toronto?

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"Toronto has always been my first girlfriend," grins the super-popular author [Neil Gaiman] as he stretches out on a hotel-suite sofa for a recent chat. "It's always been special to me.

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He traces this special feeling to Mark Askwith (now with the Space network), who was the manager of the legendary Silver Snail Comics on Queen St. W. back in 1986.

"He picked up on my first book, Violent Cases," recalls Gaiman, "and sold more copies in his store than were sold anywhere else in North America. No exaggeration."

— The Toronto Star

Of course, I read that and immediately thought, "Hey, I bought my copy of Violent Cases at Silver Snail."