Neil Gaiman has too many careers.
He wrote comics before everyone called them graphic novels, and rewrote the rules with Sandman, his 10-volume exploration of the power of dreams and stories. Sandman continues to be as popular now as it ever was, despite people teaching it in universities and writing Ph.D. theses on it.
When Sandman was done he started to write novels, beginning with Neverwhere. His novel American Gods is, according to web sites that keep track of these things, the most awarded genre novel of all time, but that's probably because nobody was sure if it was science fiction, fantasy, or horror, so it got Best Novel awards in all fields, including the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker.
His comic novel Anansi Boys was a number one The New York Times best-seller.
He has another career as a children's author, with books like Coraline and The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish. He worked with the National Theatre of Scotland to turn The Wolves in the Walls into a children's opera.
He has been doing more work in films. Films coming soon for which Gaiman has written the script or adapted from his work include Zemeckis's Beowulf, Matthew Vaughn's Stardust, and Henry Selick's Coraline.
Gaiman recently received the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book.
He has no idea what his next career is going to be, although he is fairly certain that it won't include dentistry, flower arranging, or taxidermy.
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