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 Spiegelman and Daniel Clowes, Gaiman has, according to a cont...

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 Story at the 1991 World Fantasy Convention produced a dr...

CHARLES BARR VERTIGO BFI Publishing, London, 2002 In 1960 Robin Wood, at that time a neophyte film critic, submitted an article on Hitchcock's Psycho to Sight and Sound. The editor, Penelope Houston, rejected the offering on the grounds that Wood had taken Psycho...

First published in 1995 in Toronto, Mr. Sandman is Canadian author Barbara Gowdy's third novel (Falling Angels and Through the Green Valley both appeared in the US in 1988). Gowdy also published a collection of short stories, We So Seldom Look on Love,...

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 in which the stories function as a modern myth. The second essay focuses specifically on the role of stories and storytelling in the Sandman stories.

In the following essay, Erickson discusses Gaiman's career as a graphic novelist and the development of the Sandman series.

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.