Gaiman had considered including characters from the " Dream Stream " ( including the Kirby Sandman, Brute, Glob, and the brothers Cain and Abel ) in a scene for the first issue of his 1988 miniseries Black Orchid.

Gaiman described the early issues as " awkward ", for he, as well as Kieth, Dringenberg, and Busch, had never worked on a regular series before.

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 ).

Gaiman has announced that to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Sandman, a new volume will be produced ; it will include a story about the victory that had exhausted Morpheus prior to the beginning of the original story.

* 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.

" 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.

Although this is not explicitly stated in the series, Gaiman has said that he " always assumed " Morpheus had once been alone in the Dreaming and that he populated it because he wanted company.

Dringenberg recalls differences he and Gaiman had in their view of Desire's visual appearance.

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.

Gaiman admits that he stole the name for the Threshold from a story Clive Barker had been planning to do in which Gaiman was going to be included as a character.

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.

Among the stories drawn for Heavy Metal he continued the saga of his most famous creation, Den which had begun in the short film Neverwhere ( Neil Gaiman used the same title, Neverwhere, later, but the two creations have nothing common ) and a short story in the underground publication Grim Wit # 2.

In an interview with MTV News published in June 22nd 2011 Gaiman announced he had plans for a direct sequel to American Gods.

During an interview to be included in the audio book Neil Gaiman explained how, one day while driving he had seen a wall on the side of the road and had conceived the idea of Faerie being behind the wall, this sparked an idea in his head about an American novelist who moved to England where he would find out about this wall, this book was to be called, very simply, Wall.

Gaiman had previously confirmed that this movie was in progress and that he was planning on writing the script and directing it, with Guillermo del Toro as executive producer.

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.

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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.

The connections that both Bull and Garland had with the science fiction and fantasy communities allowed them to have an unusually notable group of people writing songs for and with them, including Jane Yolen, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman.

miniseries, a Speed Force Special ( featuring The Flash ), an issue of a Deadman miniseries that revisited his " Death in the Family " story, and a single page of Legends of the Green Flame written by Neil Gaiman in which he had a final opportunity to draw the Phantom Stranger for publication.

In the book's introduction, Neil Gaiman states that he had originally planned to write twenty-five " Portraits of Despair ".

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's " Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch " contains reference to the broth as the substance in Anathema Device's mug when she is run into by Aziraphale and Crowley.

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.

This soon expanded into plots for Gross ' entire 25 issue run, despite Gross initially being nervous that his writing efforts would be unfavorably compared to those of Gaiman and Rieber by the series ' fans.

In Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, one of the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse finds a Gideon Bible in a motel while on the run from the law.

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.

Gaiman, in Patagonia, Argentina is famous for its Welsh tea houses, run by the descendants of Welsh immigrants.

The series suffered from its ties to the original Sandman series throughout its run, with Kiernan saying " from the start, The Dreaming has been saddled with living up to what Neil Gaiman did with The Sandman.

While initially hesitant about releasing annotated editions, Gaiman eventually changed his mind when he forgot a reference when asked about it by a reader.

Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli were to have created a Sweeney Todd adaptation for Taboo, published by Steve Bissette and Tundra, but only completed a prologue.

Gaiman is godfather to her daughter and a poem written for her birth, Blueberry Girl, was published as a children's book of the same name in 2009.

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

Gaiman stated this as the starting point for the character, and imagining " Who would own a cat like this?

The idea for the story came from a conversation between Gaiman and Henry about a possible television series.

Neil Gaiman also cited The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as one of the influences for his award-winning short story " A Study in Emerald ".

* Rudd, David " An Eye for an ' I ': Neil Gaiman ’ s Coraline and the Question of Identity " Children ’ s Literature and Education 39 ( 3 ), 2008, pp. 159 – 168

Gaiman described A Game of You as " probably " his favorite volume in the series, " because it's most people's least favourite volume, and I love it all the more for that.

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.

Merritt penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical of " Coraline ", based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.

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.

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.

It was written by Gaiman and featured a different illustrator for each story.

Also, The Sandman and its spin-offs have won 26 Eisner Awards, including three for Best Continuing Series, one for Best Short Story, four for Best Writer ( Neil Gaiman ), seven for Best Lettering ( Todd Klein ), and two for Best Penciller / Inker ( one each for Charles Vess and P. Craig Russell ).

It was due to their meeting on the Sandman movie project that Avary and Gaiman collaborated one year later on the script for Beowulf.

Gaiman claims to have drawn inspiration for Desire from " the sexy, androgynous " prints created by Patrick Nagel in the 1980s, and Annie Lennox circa 1987 while she was a member of the Eurythmics.