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 turn, she has influenced Booker prize winners and other writers, such as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell — and notable futurism and fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks.

* 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 himself has summarized the plot of the series ( in the foreword to Endless Nights ) as " The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.

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.

" 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.

He is the fourth eldest of the Endless, and is depicted as a big, red-haired, bearded man ( somewhat resembling actor Brian Blessed ; Gaiman has mentioned that he would like Blessed to play Destruction in the event of a Sandman movie ).

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.

Neil Gaiman has stated that the Corinthian is gay in The Sandman Companion in that the first Corinthian consumed eyes only from boys.

It was awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including six American Library Association awards, a nomination for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.

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 artwork of Charles Vess has infrequently but notably accompanied the words of Neil Gaiman on Vertigo projects, including the 4-issue Stardust ( 1997-8 ) miniseries, later reprinted as an illustrated hardcover book.

John Bolton, another frequent Gaiman collaborator has rarely worked with that author directly for Vertigo, but has utilised his characters, including in the OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies and the Books of Magic lead-in Arcana Annual.

* Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger.

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

Gaiman has also credited the series as being one of the main influences on his short story " A Study in Emerald ".

Mr. Gaiman has spoken in some detail about this on his website.

He has also collaborated with musicians such as William Shatner, Regina Spektor and " Weird Al " Yankovic and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman.

* The book Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman has a character named Old Bailey.

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 ).

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

* 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 April 2011 it was announced that American Gods will be adapted into a series for HBO by Playtone ( Tom Hanks ' production company ), with Robert Richardson & Gaiman writing the pilot.

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

Neil Gaiman announced during his The Today Show appearance on 27 January 2009, that Neil Jordan would be directing the film of his Newbery Medal-winning book The Graveyard Book.

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

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.

* Neil Gaiman, in the first issue of his comic Sandman, introduced the grimoire titled Grimorium Magdelene.

* The Sandman ( Vertigo ), a comic book written by Neil Gaiman

* The Sandman: Endless Nights, a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman

* Neil Gaiman named a debauched bar in the underworld " The Hellfire Club " in his epic comic-book series The Sandman.

* “ Valóság and Élet ” in Sandman: Book of Dreams ( 1996, edited by Neil Gaiman and Edward E. Kramer )

* In the Vertigo comic book series, The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, the notion that Faerie pays a sacrificial tithe to Hell is mentioned in the storyline " Season of Mists ".

Gaiman often characterises Sandman stories as " male " or " female "; A Game of You, dominated by female characters and points of view, is one of his female stories.

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.

The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics.

The Sandman grew out of a proposal by Neil Gaiman to revive DC's 1974 – 1976 series The Sandman, illustrated by Jack Kirby and Ernie Chua and written by Joe Simon and Michael Fleisher.

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.

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

However, weeks later Berger asked Gaiman if he was interested in doing a Sandman series.

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

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 said in 1996, " Could I do another five issues of Sandman?

The first volume of The Annotated Sandman was published by DC Comics in January 2012 as a large 12 " by 12 " black-and-white book with an introduction by Gaiman.

In 1999, Gaiman wrote Sandman: The Dream Hunters, which was illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

* The Sandman: The Dream Hunters ( 1999 ): A prose novella that incorporates a so-called Japanese folk tale into the Sandman mythos, written by Gaiman and featuring illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano.