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

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.

She later helped bring Neil Gaiman's work to a mass audience by having him write The Sandman.

Klein is most known for his work on Neil Gaiman's Sandman, where he developed very distinctive dialogue balloons and lettering for various characters, especially Dream and his siblings.

Gaiman's afterword states that it was based on an old Japanese folk tale, drawn from Y. T. Ozaki's Old Japanese Fairy Tales and retooled to fit in the world of the Sandman, but no such tale is to be found in Ozaki's work.

Gaiman's novel American Gods can be read as a tribute to and attempt to surpass many of the " dark carnival " themes in Bradbury's work.

In 1996, after the phenomenal success of The Sandman, DC sought to repackage Gaiman's earlier uncollected work for the company's Vertigo imprint in a book called Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days.

Due to Gaiman's increased popularity resulting from his critically acclaimed series Sandman, DC chose to collect some of his earliest and hardest-to-find work in a single volume.

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 also refused to pay Gaiman for the volumes of Gaiman's work he republished and kept in print.

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.

McFarlane had also refused to pay Gaiman for the volumes of Gaiman's work he republished and kept in print.

Probably better known for her work on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman characters and her own Scary Godmother series, she has also worked on The Invisibles, Swamp Thing, and Wonder Woman.

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

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.

* Gaiman's thoughts on a Sandman movie

In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, soma is referred to be " concentrated prayer ", a drink enjoyed by the gods ( who feed on people's worship ), such as Odin.

In addition, Steve Gerber, an influential force on many of the Vertigo writers, provided the miniseries Nevada, which was written based on Neil Gaiman's reiteration of a frequent request to write something more about the characters in " the obligatory comic book fight scene " in Howard the Duck # 16.

Between 2005 and 2006, Fabry fully illustrated Mike Carey's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, having previously collaborated with the man himself on a story in the 2003 OGN Sandman: Endless Nights.

* In " Three Septembers and a January ," from Neil Gaiman's comic The Sandman, Death remarks: " they say that the world rests on the backs of 36 living saints – 36 unselfish men and women.

During this run on the title, Grant Morrison ( issues # 25 & 26 ) and Neil Gaiman ( issue # 27 ) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's story dealing with nuclear fear, and Neil Gaiman's being a simple romantic ghost story.

* The character Old Bailey camps on top of Centre Point at one point in Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere.

McKean has collaborated with Neil Gaiman on two children's picture books, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish ( 1998 ) and The Wolves in the Walls ( 2003 ), and illustrated Gaiman's children's novels Coraline ( 2002 ) and The Graveyard Book ( 2008 ), as well as S. F. Said's Varjak Paw ( 2003 ).

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.

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 Queen is a tragic hero protagonist of Neil Gaiman's 1994 short story " Snow, Glass, Apples ", epicted as struggling desperately — and ultimately, unsuccessfully, as the " happy ending " takes place on schedule — to save the kingdom from her unnatural and monstrous stepdaughter.

But Fleming focuses particularly on Gaiman's use of The Watcher as a witness that provides an epistemological grounding to the text-a grounding that, citing Brian McHale, Fleming argues is absent in traditional postmodern writing.

* Odin, a character, based on the Norse god, in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman

The narrative then gives an ambiguous statement on whether they then give formal farewells or make love ( possibly Gaiman's way of implying that there are contradictory versions of the story, giving it an extra layer of authenticity ), and then he takes her place, giving her the advice, " Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.

In Neil Gaiman's " Sandman " series a handyman figure named Mervyn Pumpkinhead, clearly modeled on Jack, works for Morpheus in the Dreaming, painting and building dreams.

She is married to actor Richard Leaf, whom she met on the set of Neil Gaiman's 1996 miniseries Neverwhere, and has three children.

At the back of the book is Gaiman's essay, " Notes on a Harlequinade ," which tells us a little about the old harlequin stories of the Italian Commedia dell ' arte and the English Harlequinade.

He became well known for stints on DC Comics ’ Shade, the Changing Man and Neil Gaiman's two Death series.

Projects highlighted included Death: At Death's Door, Jill Thompson's first manga-ized version of the " Season of Mists " storyline, retold from the point of view of the Sandman's elder-sister Death and Gaiman's own return to the mythos with the hardcover Sandman: Endless Nights all-star collection of short stories spotlighting the seven members of the Endless.

* In Neil Gaiman's graphic novel The Sandman: Dream Country, Will Kempe is depicted in the issue A Midsummer Night's Dream, a short story about Shakespeare's first performance of the play.

In 1989, he penciled the first five issues of writer Neil Gaiman's celebrated series Sandman.

In the first volume of Neil Gaiman's graphic novel Sandman, the newly freed Morpheus, lord of Dreams, punishes his captor, Alexander Burgess, with endless false awakening nightmares.

Russell also illustrated the first story in Gaiman's later Sandman graphic novel, Endless Nights, and adapted both Gaiman's short story " Murder Mysteries " and his children's book Coraline into comics form.

The character was revived briefly in the 1990s, first in a short story by Neil Gaiman in Swamp Thing Annual # 5 ( reprinted in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days ), and then a Vertigo one-shot by Rachel Pollack and Mike Allred titled Corruption of the Innocent or " Homelands of the Dolls ".

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.

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 ).

In Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic series Zatanna becomes friends and even temporary guardian to Timothy Hunter, a boy destined to become the greatest wizard in the world, and his girlfriend Molly who at the time was cursed by the Queen of the Fairies and unable to touch anything in the human world including the ground.

Gemworld later appeared in Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic # 3 ( January 1990 ), and in the Hunter: The Age of Magic spin-off series, where Timothy Hunter went to a wizard's academy there.

* Neil Gaiman's Sandman character, Charles Rowland, one of the Dead Boy Detectives, is a reference to Childe Roland, particularly in his The Children's Crusade miniseries ( 1993 ), which prominently features a dark tower, a motif later picked up by the Books of Magic series.