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.

It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi Humphreys.

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 ".

Another British fantasy author, Neil Gaiman, claimed that " Garner's fiction is something special " in that it was " smart and challenging, based in the here and the now, in which real English places emerged from the shadows of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The song was rerecorded for a tribute album to Gaiman that was assembled by the Dancing Ferret entertainment group titled Where's Neil When You Need Him?

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.

However, this deal was broken by McFarlane, which motivated Neil Gaiman to start the lawsuit.

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

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.

He initially started working professionally on strips and illustrations for a British satire magazine called The Truth in 1987 where he first worked with Neil Gaiman illustrating some of his articles.

He illustrated " The Land of Summer's Twilight ", one of the four episodes in the original The Books of Magic mini-series, and also worked on three issues of Gaiman ’ s critically acclaimed Sandman series ( both series were initially published by DC Comics as part of their shared universe, but later moved to the new " mature readers " Vertigo imprint / universe ).

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 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.

Gaiman remembered making a copy of the script for Brian Hibbs, but he no longer had it ; however, he had previously copied it for his friend James Barry.

* In The Graveyard Book, a 2008 novel by Neil Gaiman, night-gaunts appear in Chapter 3 (" The Hounds of God "), there is also a brief mention in Chapter 7.

The Zorya appear as characters in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods ( for which Gaiman created a third Zorya, Zorya Polunochnaya, the " Midnight Star ") and in Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles.

Neil Gaiman retells the parable in reference to storytelling in Fragile Things ( it was originally to appear in American Gods ):

Grimoires called Paginarum Fulvarum ( Yellow Pages ) also appear in Good Omens ( co-written by Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ) and Gaiman's Sandman comic book.

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.

Recalling the previously rejected Action Comics Weekly script, Gaiman sought Carlin's approval to see if the story might now be published apart from established continuity.

* Upon seeing a review in which someone said that Martha Soukup was one of the most discussed authors, friend Neil Gaiman wrote a poem for her, in which the entire world ( and a few beings in outer space ) talk of nothing but Martha Soukup: " It's Martha this and Martha that and Martha Soukup said, and if you cannot talk of Martha, then you might as well be dead.

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 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.

While Gaiman saw Desire as being somewhere between David Bowie and Annie Lennox, Dringenberg saw it more in terms of Duran Duran ( what he describes as " sort of two-dimensional and slightly vapid ").

It is more accurately titled Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess ' Stardust ( Being A Romance Within The Realm of Faerie ).

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

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 ).

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.

Gaiman began work at the magazine in 1984 but left in the late 80s because an editorial change resulted in the magazine concentrating more heavily on pornographic content.