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The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.
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Neil Gaiman has helped to create a renaissance in graphic novels and comic books. Along with other British writers such as Alan Moore, and a host of American writer/illustrators, including Art Spiegel...
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As Harlan Ellison describes it in his introduction to Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Season of Mists (1992), the announcement that Gaiman's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" had won the award for Year's Best St...
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In the following essay, Erickson discusses Gaiman's career as a graphic novelist and the development of the Sandman series.
Neil Gaiman never remembers his dreams. They are devoured by his imag...
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In the following two essays, Rauch discusses the relationship between dream and myth in Gaiman's Sandman series, drawing on the theories of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell to demonstrate the ways...
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In the following essay, McConnell assesses the Sandman series as a whole and discusses Gaiman's central thematic concern with myth and storytelling.
A few years ago I wrote a column for Commonw...
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In the following review of Sandman: Book of Dreams, a collection of short stories by various authors inspired by the Sandman series, edited by Gaiman and Edward E. Kramer, Steinberg asserts that the b...
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In the following interview, Gaiman discusses the comic book industry, his development as a writer, and the significance of the Sandman series to his career as a whole.
There's a boyishness abou...
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Teaching The Sandman
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The Sandman Lesson Plans contain 123 pages of teaching material, including: