* 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 mentioned his treatment in passing to DC editor Karen Berger.

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 ).

He is mentioned in Neil Gaiman ’ s The Sandman as " the unseemly ," brother to Mailure.

Princeton, Missouri is also mentioned in the New York Times bestselling book, " American Gods ," written by acclaimed author Neil Gaiman.

* The river Uck was mentioned in the 1990 novel Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

Jones was cast due to writer Neil Gaiman wanting an actress, in the words of Jones, who is " odd ; beautiful but strange looking, and quite funny " to play the role of Idris.

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

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.

Gaiman stated that he wanted to do " a sort of Prince and Pauper idea.

In 2003, author Neil Gaiman directed A Short Film About John Bolton where the painter ( played by John O ' Mahony ) is interviewed by a reporter seeking to answer " Where do your ideas come from?

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

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.

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

Gaiman had a finite run in mind for the series, and it concluded with issue # 75.

* Vertigo: Winter's Edge ( 1997 – 1999 ): An annual one-shot issue featuring short stories from multiple Vertigo series, including short stories featuring Desire ( twice ) and Death by Gaiman with Bolton, Jones, and Zulli respectively.

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.

The first was a 2002 suit in which McFarlane contested with writer Neil Gaiman over the rights to some supporting Spawn characters created by Gaiman in issue # 9 of the Spawn series and over payment for later works featuring those characters.

In addition, McKean's artwork also graced the inside pages of the public service comic Death Talks about Life ( 1994 ), an issue of The Dreaming (# 8 ), two issues of the DC-published Hellblazer (# 27 with Gaiman and # 40 with Delano ) and his and Neil Gaiman's OGN Mr Punch ( 1994 ).

Also, in The Sandman issue " Calliope " written by Neil Gaiman and pencilled by Kelley Jones, a character, Richard Madoc, writes a book " The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari ", an obvious pseudonym.

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.

Gaiman used the four issues to formally split the structure of the story, and allow for a different artist to draw each issue:

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.

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.

At the 1991 awards, comic book The Sandman issue # 19 " A Midsummer's Night Dream ", by Neil Gaiman, won the Award for Best Short Fiction.

* The Cainites are referred to in issue 22 ( May 1990 ) of Sandman, a comic published by DC Comics and written by 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.

Welz has also produced an issue of Cherry Deluxe featuring a story by Neil Gaiman.

* The Books of Magic: " The Road to Nowhere " ( with Neil Gaiman, 1990, tpb collects the 4 issue mini-series, DC, 1993 ISBN 1-56389-082-8 )

After Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess won the 1991 Short Fiction award in 1991 — for the " A Midsummer Night's Dream " issue of The Sandman — comics were restricted to the Special Award: Professional category.

After Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 1991 — for the " A Midsummer Night's Dream " issue of The Sandman — comics were restricted to this category.

* 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 ).

* White Wolf: Ill Met In Lankhmar ( 1995 ; books 1 and 2, with a new introduction by Michael Moorcock and Fritz Leiber's " Fafhrd and Me "), Lean Times in Lankhmar ( 1996 ; books 3 and 4, with a new introduction by Karl Edward Wagner ), Return to Lankhmar ( 1997 ; books 5 and 6, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ), and Farewell to Lankhmar ( 1998 ; book 7 ; the hardcover edition omits the final seven chapters of " The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars ")

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 crafted the new character from an initial image of " a man, young, pale and naked, imprisoned in a tiny cell, waiting until his captors passed away [...] deathly thin, with long dark hair, and strange eyes.

Berger reviewed the sketches ( along with some drawn by Gaiman ) and suggested Sam Kieth as the series ' artist.

Gaiman gave Jed Walker a surname and made him related to several new characters, and treated his relationship with Uncle Barnaby and Aunt Clarice as abusive rather than Cinderella-esque.

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.

It also features a lengthy interview about the series with Gaiman himself.

" 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.

Film director James Mangold pitched a series concept to cable channel HBO, whilst consulting with Gaiman himself on an unofficial basis, but this proved to be unsuccessful.

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

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.

During an interview, Hy Bender asks Gaiman why Desire sleeping with a mortal woman isn't against a rule in DC continuity stating that the Endless aren't allowed to mate with mortals.

Gaiman explains that Desire's role as a " villain " is due to its personality conflict with Dream.

A collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe ( cover by Gahan Wilson, with interior illustrations by Randy Broecker and Earl Geier ), it was published with two different covers by the American Fantasy Press ( one crediting " Gaiman and Wolfe ", the other crediting " Wolfe and Gaiman ".