Gaiman wrote an eight-issue outline and gave it to Dave McKean and Leigh Baulch, who drew character sketches.

Having created her, Gaiman used Titania as a recurring character throughout the series, and when he was asked part way through his run on The Sandman to write a script to introduce DC's magical characters to a new audience he gave her a guest role in the resultant mini-series, The Books of Magic.

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a rating of A -, saying that the film is a " dazzling reverie of a kids-and-adults movie, an unusual collaboration between lord-of-the-cult multimedia artist Dave McKean and king-of-the-comics Neil Gaiman ( The Sandman )" and that it " has something to astonish everyone.

Rose Walker is a fictional character from the Sandman series written by Neil Gaiman.

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Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

However, there is no trace of it in the primary source he cites, and when asked, Gaiman has stated that he made up the " legend " out of whole cloth.

* 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.

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

Gaiman agrees with Dringenberg's view by explaining that Desire had to be made both male and female, because the character represents everything someone might desire.

Spawn Collection Volume 1 collecting issues 1-12 minus issue 9 ( due to royalty issues with Neil Gaiman ) and 10 ( due to a vow he made to Sim ) was released in December 2005.

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

Gaiman and Vess originally intended the story to be released complete, as a single book, which would better reproduce the painted illustrations of Vess and be a " story book " for all ages, and a release in this format was made in 1998.

Also in 2011, Sheen starred in Beautiful Boy, an independent drama focusing on the aftermath of a school shooting, voiced a character in a Doctor Who episode written by his friend Neil Gaiman and made cameo appearances in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Resistance.

Early in her professional career, Amos befriended author Neil Gaiman, who became a fan after she referenced him in the song " Tear in Your Hand " and also in print interviews.

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.

Gaiman called the last screenplay that Warner Bros. would send him " not only the worst Sandman script I've ever seen, but quite easily the worst script I've ever read.

" Gaiman has also said that his dissatisfaction with how his characters were being treated had dissuaded him from writing any more stories involving the Endless, although he has since written Endless Nights.

Gaiman corrects him by pointing out that the rule is that the Endless cannot love mortals, and that rape is something altogether different.

It was the first stand-alone mini-series derived from the then-on-going Sandman series by Gaiman, and was written by him with artwork by Bachalo and Buckingham and covers by regular Sandman cover artist Dave McKean.

At that stage, DeMatteis also decided to step back, and DC instead approached popular writer Neil Gaiman and asked him to come up with a four-issue prestige-format series " about our magic characters ".

Gaiman's participation was later lampooned in " Ghastly's Ghastly Comic ", calling him " Neil ' Eighteen Pages ' Gaiman ".

As part of his comic The Sandman, writer Neil Gaiman planned a small arc involving William Shakespeare entering a deal with the Dream King to write plays that would live on after him.

In 1991, Neil Gaiman brought the character back into the spotlight, when he featured him in the miniseries The Books of Magic.

Gaiman paid eloquent tribute to Bradbury's influence on him and many others in The Guardian in 2012, after Bradbury's death.

Pratchett calls it a " shared joke ", and in the dedication to Equal Rites thanks Gaiman for lending him the last surviving copy of the book.

Later, the Demon had to be removed from the story, so Gaiman " created an anagrammatic demon creature to replace him, whose dialogue consisted of one sonnet.

Fellow comic book creators, Neal Adams and Neil Gaiman, were all praises for him as they encouraged comic book aficionados all over the world to help out with DeZuniga's hospital expenses.

The revival of the character was due in part to the success of a later, related character created by Neil Gaiman ; Dream of the Endless, whose adventures were then being published under the title of The Sandman ( hence the need for a more elaborate title for the older character's adventures ).

As a result, Adams later stated that he was not entirely happy with the book, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author Neil Gaiman described as " patronising and unfair ".

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

As the 10th anniversary arrived, Gaiman wrote several new stories about Morpheus and his siblings, one story for each, which were published in 2003 as the Endless Nights anthology.

These novels were authorized by the Zelazny estate ; however, that decision has been criticized by several acquaintances of Mr. Zelazny, including the writers George R. R. Martin, Walter Jon Williams and Neil Gaiman.

However, in The Sandman Companion, Gaiman stated specifically that he did not meet Tori Amos until several years after the Delirium character had been created.

Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess ' Stardust was released by Vertigo as a heavily illustrated novel, rather than a regular comic, and Vertigo has also experimented with the dimensions of their OGNs, releasing several that are of a non-comic-book-standard size, including Dave Gibbons ' The Originals and Mat Johnson's Incognegro ( which also featured somewhat experimental artwork, namely art-by Warren Pleece-that was fully black and white, with no " halftones or grays ").

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

The novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett satirizes the apocalypse and several events of the film, including the baby swap.

Gaiman spent several days on the set of del Toro's film Hellboy II: The Golden Army to get pointers on how to direct.

The Guide claims to be 83rd in a series of editions inaugurated by the fictional Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead in 1915, and contains generally humorous entries ( in varying degrees of darkness ) with disease descriptions by several popular authors such as Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and Michael Moorcock, which together detail the " secret medical history " of the 20th Century.

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.

Author Neil Gaiman and several Sandman series artists and others involved in the series ' publication participated in the convention, with profits benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

* The writer Neil Gaiman has written several short stories set in the town.

Something Wicked has influenced several fantasy and horror authors, the most prominent being Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.

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.