Neil will not be a consultant, nor a writer/director of the SANDMAN film. Since then, eight drafts of the script has been reviewed and summarily tossed, and the director (Roger Avery, of Killing Zoe, and cowriter of Pulp Fiction) has been fired. Warner Brothers have optioned SANDMAN for a movie, and a first draft script (by Elliot and Rossio, who wrote Disney's Aladdin) was delivered in August of 1996. SANDMAN sells over a million copies a year the collections have sold over three quarters of a million copies in trade Ten trade paperback and hardback SANDMAN collections have appeared to date, PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES, THE DOLL'S HOUSE, DREAM COUNTRY, SEASON OF MISTS, A GAME OF YOU, FABLES AND REFLECTIONS, BRIEF LIVES, WORLD'S END, THE KINDLY ONES, and the final book THE WAKE.
Style and popularity, and has gained a mass following, both of in-print readership andĪt its website- cum-journal, Norman Mailer said of SANDMAN "Along with all else, SANDMAN is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time". And oh, it is well-written." AMERICAN GODS continues Gaiman's Harlan Ellison calls it, "serially inventive, surprising, purely Most recently, Gaiman's new novel AMERICAN GODS has been a radical He has won many other awards including the Diamond Distributors' 'Gem' award, voted on by comic retailers internationally for expanding the marketplace of comic readers.
SANDMAN has won Neil the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for best writer (1991, 1992, 19), best continuing series (1991, 19), best graphic album - reprint (1991) and best graphic album - new (1993) the Harvey Award for best writer (1990, 1991) and best continuing series (1992) and SANDMAN #19 took the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to be awarded a literary award. NEIL GAIMAN is best known as the creator and writer of the monthly series SANDMAN.
With Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, and Peter David
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