In what's undoubtedly one of the strangest pairings in recent memory, South by Southwest  is bringing together acclaimed author Neil Gaiman and Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre for a featured session at the 2013 SWSW Interactive Festival. Weird, right?

To be fair, Lorre is a veteran television-comedy writer and producer who's other creations include Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg and The Big Bang Theory. So he's now slouch, even you don't care for his shows -- or if you know him better for his bizarre public feud with actor Charlie Sheen. Still, he's probably not the first person you'd think of the subject of a Gaiman interview.

Held March 9 in Dell Hall of the Long Center in Austin, Texas, "Chuck Lorre: In Conversation with Neil Gaiman" will focus on the challenges of running three of the most successful series on TV and the story Lorre's legendary, and occasionally controversial, end-show-vanity cards. A curated selection of those cards was published last fall in a hardcover coffee-table book called What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Bitter (the proceeds of which go to Lorre's Dharma-Grace Foundation, which supports the Venice Family Clinic).