While the scene did not make it into later drafts because Roy Thomas was using the characters in Infinity, Inc., Gaiman soon began constructing a treatment for a new series.

By issue # 11, Gaiman began incorporating elements of the Kirby Sandman series, including the changes implemented by Thomas.

Peter Milligan, who began his career at 2000 AD, before working briefly for both Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, contributed two titles ( one quarter of the initial line-up ; the same as Gaiman ) to the Vertigo launch.

By the end of the 1980s, they had also created the mature-audience Vertigo imprint, under initial editor Karen Berger, and began an influx of British talent such as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman.

Later comics writers such as Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, influenced by cinematic technique, began to include more layout details within their scripts.

In 1989 Vess began one of his best-known collaborations to date, with writer Neil Gaiman.

When beginning writing the short story ' the toy mill ' Karl Schroeder and David Nickle began by writing alternating sentences, whereas when English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman wrote Good Omens they largely wrote separate plotlines and then collaborated much more heavily when revising the manuscript.

While months later Berger offered Gaiman a comic title to work on, he was unsure his Sandman pitch would be accepted.

For their work in the mini-series, Neil Gaiman and Karen Berger received Eisner Award in 1994 as Best Writer and Best Editor.

On October 14, 2010 it was reported in an interview with Gaiman that as of June or July, DC and Warner Bros. had closed down work on the film and it was unclear if they would start it up again.

After a trip to New York in 1986 during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman, and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories, Violent Cases, published in 1987.

In 2004, McKean won a BSFA Award in " Short Fiction " along with Neil Gaiman for their work, The Wolves in the Walls.

Author Neil Gaiman, whose work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure, says that he started The Hero with a Thousand Faces but refused to finish it: " I think I got about half way through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true — I don ’ t want to know.

Since 2000, Mirrlees ' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

Animal Man placed Morrison at the head of the so-called " Brit Wave " invasion of American comics, along with such writers as Neil Gaiman, Peter Milligan, Jamie Delano and Alan Moore ( who had launched the ' invasion ' with his work on Swamp Thing ).< ref name =" vert-ency ">

His first major comics work was the graphic novel London's Dark but he came to international attention when he painted the art on The Road to Nowhere, The fourth and final chapter of The Books of Magic mini-series, written by Neil Gaiman and released by DC / Vertigo in 1993.

He has adapted another Gaiman Sandman work, Sandman: The Dream Hunters, and a Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian story, " The Jewels of Gwahlur ".

Marc Hempel ( born May 25, 1957 ) is an American cartoonist / comics artist best known for his work on The Sandman with Neil Gaiman.

" In addition to his collaboration with Gaiman on the climactic story arc " The Kindly Ones " in The Sandman, he is also known for his critically acclaimed work with Mark Wheatley in the titles Breathtaker and Mars ( original art from The Sandman and Breathtaker are included in an exhibition entitled " LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel ," currently on view at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts ).

Mike Dringenberg ( born ) is a German / American comic book artist best known for his work on DC / Vertigo's Sandman series with writer Neil Gaiman after original artist Sam Kieth's departure.

Waid, who had a personal philosophy of not interfering with his creative personnel's work, opted not to ask Gaiman for a rewrite.

Gaiman was paid for his work and the script was filed away.

The magazine did publish early work by notable creators including Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Paul Johnson, James Robinson and Rian Hughes.

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.

Trident was an anthology title, and its first issue featured work such as Eddie Campbell's Bacchus, Neil Gaiman and Nigel Kitching's The Light Brigade and Grant Morrison and Paul Grist's St. Swithin's Day.

In 2005 they published a three-part re-issue of Ted McKeever's Eddy Current, and also one ( of three planned ) " Bojeffries Terror Tomes ", reprinting The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse, and featuring additional work by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, Ramsey Campbell and David Lloyd, Michael T. Gilbert and Dave Dorman, Warren Ellis and Steve Pugh, and also including Ted McKeever's Eddy Current and a solo tale of Eddy Current's Nun.

Neil Gaiman, in a promotional " penny dreadful ", identified a number of earlier texts that feed into the Todd story, some dating back to at least the late 17th century.

Neil Gaiman announced at Comic-Con 2007 that P. Craig Russell will adapt the story into comics form.

In a Q & A panel at Comic-Con 2007, Gaiman remarked, " I'd rather see no Sandman movie made than a bad Sandman movie.

* Video interview with Neil Gaiman on the origins of Sandman at Spacecast. com

The ninth comic launched at Vertigo's 1993 debut was the Vertigo Preview, showcasing the concurrently released titles, as well as J. M. DeMatteis ' Mercy, Ann Nocenti's Kid Eternity ( an ongoing series spun off from the earlier Morrison-penned miniseries ), Dick Foreman's Black Orchid ( an on-going series spun off from the Gaiman / McKean miniseries ) and Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre.

Gaiman has also occasionally made references to writing a sequel, or at least another book concerning the village of Wall.

In American Gods by Neil Gaiman, main character Shadow discovers pasties at Mabel's restaurant in the fictional town of Lakeside.

Rieber's last issue was issue # 50, coincidentally the point at which original co-creator Neil Gaiman decided that the time was right to stop " taking DC's $ 200 an issue and not doing anything " and resigned as creative consultant on the book.

Gaiman and McKean worked on the film concepts over the course of two weeks at Jim Henson's family's home, and actual production of the film took seventeen months.

McKean and Gaiman worked on the story and concepts for the film over a span of two weeks in February 2002 at the Henson's family home.

Neil Gaiman has referenced the book and film, in passing, in at least three different works.

A Feast for Crows was the first novel in the sequence to debut at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list, a feat among fantasy writers only previously achieved by Robert Jordan and Neil Gaiman.

For the 20th anniversary of Sandman, Neil Gaiman announced at Comic-Con 2007 that P. Craig Russell would adapt the story into comics form.

Though it is not uncommon for fantasy novels to be ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list, to date the only fantasy novelists whose works have debuted at number one on the list are Robert Jordan in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2009, George R. R. Martin in 2005, and 2011, Neil Gaiman in 2005, Terry Goodkind in 2006, and Patrick Rothfuss in 2011.

In August 2010, the band collaborated with author Neil Gaiman and comics author / artist Eddie Campbell at the inaugural Graphic festival at the Sydney Opera House, composing a 70-minute accompaniment to Gaiman's novella " The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains ".

The 1994 concept album The Last Temptation by shock rocker Alice Cooper, as well as the accompanying four-part comic series by Neil Gaiman, borrow several elements from the novel, something that is referenced by Gaiman as the novel is being studied in Steven's class at school in the days just before Halloween.

In Pratchett's book with Neil Gaiman, Good Omens during a gun battle at an old English country house a character in the book is said to be lying face down in the ha-ha, but not to be very amused by it.

Annually the Society provides an international convention, attended by 1200 + persons, at which students and faculty participate in scholarly and creative paper presentations, workshops, and roundtables, and hear featured speakers such as Billy Collins, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Amy Tan, and Dave Eggers.

Other people to have been published at Knave include Kim Newman, Dave Langford, and Neil Gaiman.