Neil Gaiman may now be known mostly as an author of fantasy novels such as Stardust and American Gods, but he started out as a very well respected writer of comic books. His Sandman series was published by DC Comics from 1989 though 1996 and is now collected in a series of ten graphic novels.
Sandman wasn’t your usual comic book series. It centered around the charac
ter of Morpheus who was a magical character that could travel through people’s dreams and different fantasy realms having bizarre adventures. Many of the stories took place in different eras of history since Morpheus (also known as Dream) was an immortal entity. Morpheus’ visual appearance and the romantic/depressing nature of the stories helped the series be very popular in the goth community also.
From the Sandman series, Gaiman spun off the graphic novel Death: The High Cost of Living (DC Comics, 1993). It was drawn by Chris Bachalo. This story centered on Dream’s older sister - Death. She isn’t like other representations of Death though. She’s a spunky goth girl that has to take human form for one day to experience life with mortals.
Neil Gaiman’s other notable works include graphic novels like 1602 (Marvel Comics, 2003) and Eternals (Marvel Comics, 2006) as well as novels like Neverwhere (BBC Books, 1996) and Anansi Boys (Harper Collins (2005).
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