McFarlane had initially agreed that Gaiman retained creator rights on the characters, but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's co-creations entirely, pointing to the legal indicia in Spawn # 9 and the lack of legal contract stating otherwise.

McFarlane had initially agreed that Gaiman retained co-creator rights on the characters but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's creations entirely, pointing to the legal indicia in Spawn # 9, and the lack of legal contract stating otherwise.

Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman influenced goths with characters like the dark, brooding Dream and his sister Death.

Although created before the two met, the character Delirium from Gaiman's The Sandman series ( or even her sister Death ) is inspired by Amos ; Gaiman has stated that they " steal shamelessly from each other ".

In Fables and Reflections, the seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman, the maenads feature in the story Orpheus, in which they gruesomely murder the titular character after he refuses to cavort with them ( echoing the events of the actual Greek myth of Orpheus ).

Ishtar is also a love interest for Destruction of The Endless in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic book series.

The task of annotating the series was undertaken by Gaiman's friend Leslie S. Klinger of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes who worked from the original scripts given to him by Gaiman.

The character, who appeared three times in Gaiman's series, was revived due to the popularity of Gaiman's series.

He is one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

Dream originally began as a mainstream DC character able to interact with DC superheroes, and Gaiman's versions of Dream have appeared in DC superhero titles written by Keith Giffen and by Grant Morrison, as well as in Gaiman's own The Books of Magic series and in a Rick Veitch-authored issue of Swamp Thing ( where he meets Matthew Cable ).

Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.

Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

Neil Gaiman's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples of this device.

The Corinthian is a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.

2 ; the Black Orchid miniseries ( Neil Gaiman's first work for DC ), the fantasy series The Sandman vol.

Gaiman's work on the first The Books of Magic miniseries ( also released as a DC title, 1990 – 91 ) lay the groundwork for that long-running Vertigo Universe series, which features young wizard Timothy Hunter.

His work also effectively ended Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, Muth painting issue # 74, the final issue of The Wake storyline, and second-to-last main issue.

It is a spin-off from Gaiman's best-selling Vertigo Comics series The Sandman, featuring the Sandman ( Dream )' s elder sister, Death of the Endless in a self-contained story based around the fable that Death takes human form once a century, to remain grounded and in touch with humanity, an idea touched upon in several other media, for example in the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday and in the Terry Pratchett novel Reaper Man.

These continuing series ' included Hellblazer and Gaiman's own The Sandman.

From 1989 – 1996 McKean produced the covers for Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman, all its collected editions, and many of its spin-offs.

The character Thessaly in Neil Gaiman's Sandman is based on Doran, and she illustrated two issues of that series (# 20 and # 34 ) in the early 1990s.

Another adaption of Thor appears briefly in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.

* Untitled Sandman Project ( 2013 ): Neil Gaiman announced via video in the San Diego Comic Con 2012 that he and JH Williams III would collaborate to produce the story that was previously hinted in Gaiman's introduction to Season of Mists and in Brief Lives of Dream's adventure prior to Preludes and Nocturnes which had exhausted him so much that it made Burgess ' actions capable of capturing him.

* The story " Death And Venice " ( From Neil Gaiman's " The Sandman: Endless Nights ") parallels many aspects of " The Masque Of The Red Death ": Death of the Endless chooses a specific time to visit Italian aristocrats during a Carnival-esque ball and puts an end to it.

Thermidor is also the name of a story revolving around the end of the French Revolution in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, issue # 29.

* In Neil Gaiman's novel Coraline ( 2002 ) the heroine meets up with improved look-alikes of her parents and all her neighbors when she enters the Other Mother's world.

The annual saw Neil Gaiman's first credit as " creative consultant " for The Books of Magic, a position which DC Comics paid him to carry out despite the fact that even when he did make comments on the script, he was told that it was too late for anything to be changed.

The modern Silver City was re-imagined for Neil Gaiman's Season of Mists storyline in The Sandman, when the angels Duma and Remiel are dispatched to the Dreaming to observe the events there following Lucifer's abdication of the throne of Hell.

Coming at a time when DC were in the midst of the so-called " British Invasion " of creators, Shade was one of the last to debut in the first wave after Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and Grant Morrison's Animal Man.

The first all stop motion 3D feature is Coraline ( 2009 ), based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel and directed by Henry Selick.

Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens.

In Neil Gaiman's award winning novel American Gods, thunderbirds feature prominently.

The band was recruited to provide original songs for the Henry Selick-directed movie of Neil Gaiman's children's book Coraline, but were dropped because their music was not " creepy " enough.

Mead is mentioned many times in Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel, American Gods ; it is referred to as the drink of the gods.

The plot of Neil Gaiman's story Neverwhere broadly mirrors the Tannhauser myth.

In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

These include Thursday's fictions by Richard James Allen and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.

These include Emma Bull's and Will Shetterly's Liavek, Robert Asprin's Thieves ' World, Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Terri Windling's Borderland Series.

* Stated in the acknowlegments as the inspiration for the setting of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.

Livia appears in Neil Gaiman's comic " Distant Mirrors-August " collected in The Sandman: Fables and Reflections.

It is principally about Gaiman's Morpheus and his issues with himself and his place in things.

Many of the early stories have been extensively retouched and / or recolored with Gaiman's approval.

The annotations trace the countless references to the characters, myths, and events in and outside of the DC universe while making extensive use of Gaiman's scripts for the comics.

In Gaiman's afterword to the book, he describes the story was a retelling of an existing Japanese legend.

Its first section discusses the ten Sandman collections sequentially, analyzing their meaning, explaining some of Gaiman's myriad references and sometimes providing information on the writing of the comics.

In March 2011 it was announced via Neil Gaiman's web blog that while he and DC liked Eric Kripke and his approach, it didn't feel quite right.