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Creator of The Sandman and one of comics' most accomplished writers, Neil Gaiman is also the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Anansi Boys, American Gods, Stardust and Coraline, as well as the short story collections M Is for Magic and Smoke and Mirrors and the multimedia creation Neverwhere. He also co-wrote the Jim Henson Productions film MirrorMask with longtime collaborator Dave McKean, illustrator of the Gaiman-written graphic novels Mr. Punch, Violent Cases and Black Orchid. Among his many awards are the Hugo, the Nebula, the Eisner, the Harvey, the Bram Stoker and the World Fantasy Award. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States.
Neil Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any medium. -Stephen King A sober, somber conclusion-literally, a dying fall-to a sequence that undeniably constitutes a major achievement. There is nothing quite like it anywhere else. -The Independent Undoubtedly the finest writing the mainstream comic book industry has ever seen. -St. Louis Dispatch The greatest epic in the history of comic books. -The Los Angeles Times Magazine One of the few comics that segued from the comics crowd, entering the intellectual and art worlds, winning over a large non-comics-reading audience. -The Hollywood Reporter The Sandman is a modern myth, as well as a precis on why the stories we tell matter so much. -Playboy The landmark comic-book series that actually made Death seem ... cool. -Entertainment Weekly
