Tag Archive | "Sandman"

Art For Art’s Sake – Death special…..

Saturday, December 31, 2011

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I could make some sort of end of the year type link to Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg’s Death character. But truth be told, I was following one link to the Adi Granov Death picture on Comic Art Fans, and next thing I know, I’d lost half an hour and had seen some beautiful pieces… [...]

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The delights of The Little Endless – The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party By Jill Thompson Based on The Endless characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg DC/Vertigo There’s a joy in listening to a story being read to you, and likewise there’s a joy in reading aloud for someone else. We read all sorts of books to Molly [...]

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Strengthen the bookshelves – Absolute Sandman Volume 5…..

Saturday, March 12, 2011

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It appears DC have had a look at the accounts and realised that the dip in profits in 2010 may have had something to do with a complete lack of the very profitable high price point Absolute Sandman Volume for the first year since 2006. Absolute Sandman Volumes 1-4 appeared, one a year, from 2006-2009. [...]

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Welcome, Cereal Convention

Thursday, October 14, 2010

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The first three volumes of the new editions of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman go on the racks today, nice new trade paperbacks (using the much restored artowrk and colouring from the Absolute Sandman editions) of Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll’s House and the short story collection Dream Country. Glancing inside Doll’s House I’m reminded of a [...]

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More Sandman TV rumours… and Gaiman’s Doctor Who

Saturday, September 4, 2010

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Via Heidi at The Beat (after the original at The Hollywood Reporter)comes news of the oft-mentioned, oft-rumoured Sandman TV show: “The Sandman,” the Neil Gaiman-penned comic book series considered a seminal work in the medium, is in the early stages of being developed into a TV series. Warner Bros. TV is in the midst of acquiring [...]

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The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon,

Friday, May 14, 2010

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Roots of the Swamp Thing offers up a lost piece of Hellblazer history with Peter Hogan’s The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon, an unpublished John Constantine one-shot, a follow up to Peter’s earlier Sandman Presents: Love Street mini series. Where the latter covered Constantine’s childhood in the 60s Marquee Moon would take us to his youth [...]

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That delightful lady Death

Friday, December 4, 2009

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Having one of my regular browses through the Scotch Corner blog, a Scottish comics artists collective where several creators post different artwork every day,  inspired by the Eclectic Micks format; like the Micks blog its well worth bookmarking so you can pause from the everyday and enjoy a wee browse through the most recent postings. [...]

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Larry Marder’s Bean Book and SandBean by Neil Gaiman

Saturday, November 28, 2009

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Larry Marder has posted an interesting new blog entry this week showing us a Neil Gaiman sketch in his “Bean Book” from 1992. The Bean Book was a little sketchbook he carried around and hit everyone and anyone up for sketches with one simple rule: “Draw anything you’d like but please have it make some [...]

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The Dream Hunters

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Hitting the shelves today, the hardback edition of the excellent P Craig Russell’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: the Dream Hunters. I want.

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Death – Micks style

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Liking this recent entry on the always worth checking Eclectic Micks comics artist blog pool – this one’s a rather fetching version of our favourite Gothic pin-up gal, Neil Gaiman’s Death, by Declan Shalvey: Declan has also started posting up some sketches from his BICS trip on his own blog.

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The road from Wigan Pier: Bryan Talbot talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, part one

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Today we have a wonderful treat for you – that notorious masked interviewer Pádraig Ó Méalóid has a cracking new interview for us, this time with the brilliant Bryan Talbot (or I should say Doctor Bryan Talbot now!) and, like his previous Alan Moore interviews here, its a long and in-depth piece, so we’re going [...]

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