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As ever, Neil Gaiman has written for the strengths of the artist and in Sandman Overture that means drawing the impossible, a flower that resembles Morpheus, dreams within dreams, and a quadruple page spread that opens up, portraying every aspect of Dream across the universe. It was a mention in the very first issue of Sandman[...]

It's all at Foyles Bookshop from 6.30pm tonight. CASE CLOSED A new way for storing and sending comic books through the mail, goes on Kickstarter. THE GREEN TEAM DC Comics has just passed the half a million mark for their Indiegogo fundraiser We Can Be Heroes this year. Batman: $152, 981 Superman: $132, 493 Justice League Indiegogo: $217, 932 Total: $503, 406 This doesn't[...]

Copies of this exclusive variant cover for Sandman Overture #1 are only available through the Diamond Previews membership drive for retailers who join the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, for a $100 membership and up.     Copies of this exclusive variant cover for Sandman Overture #1 are only available through the Diamond Previews membership drive for[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! Has everyone worked out that Sandman: Overture is going to be a really big seller Retailers seem to be getting there Especially when DC Comics[...]

It is possible that some retailers have forgotten how issues of Sandman sell Its final issue, 75, was fifth on Diamond's ordering charts Since then, the popularity of Sandman and Neil Gaiman has grown The Endless Nights hardcover had a first print of over 100,000 that sold out straight away. In October, we get a new[...]

Third talk was with graphic novel creator Hannah Berry to discuss Sandman And finally with Margaret Atwood to discuss stories All four talks were jam packed and the organisers ran the signings in as slick a manner as someone signing 1000 books at a time could possibly be! If you haven't already guessed the talk I'm[...]

After announcing DCBS and Things From Another World as their first comic store corporate sponsors, they will be giving exclusive CBLDF variant covers to retailer members who sign up. This includes a variant of Sandman Overture #1 by Jim Lee and a Comics Code-style variant cover of Mighty Avengers #1. Retailer membership costs from $100 a year. [...]

Williams III discuss The Sandman: Overture, the eagerly awaited new miniseries that marks the author's return to the iconic fantasy series. One of the most eagerly-anticipated comic series of 2013 starts in about… 100 days or so from now, and here's Neil Gaiman and J.H Williams III to tell us more about it: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDdfYZkN_tI[/youtube] In this exclusive Con[...]

By Eric Rezsnyak The Sandman 25th Anniversary Panel had a really interesting moment at the end. Neil Gaiman turned to Sam Kieth, who was the original artist on the series, and asked him how he feels about the property What does he think about this thing that they started 25 years ago that still hasn't gone away? The[...]

For Williams, it certainly seems that he is just where he wants to be creatively and the works he previewed only gain ground in their breadth, scope, and experimentation. Bultena pointed out what every die-hard Williams fan knows, that he's worked with so many big names in the industry that it's become a check-list of the[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon The 25th Anniversary of Sandman has brought out the likes of Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean and J.H Williams III to San Diego this year, much to the delight of the deeply ingrained groupy in a vast majority of comics fans But rather than just appearing on panels together, though they will, seeing them[...]

This is your first look at the cover of Sandman Overture, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, by Dave McKean. And your second look at a page from the series by Neil Gaiman and JH Williams. This is your first look at the cover of Sandman Overture, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, by Dave McKean. And your second[...]

As you can see, the cover and two interior pages are given to The Sandman: Overture, a six-issue series by Neil Gaiman and J H Williams III But we may not see it before 2014 as the last image shows the publishing schedule through December 2013 without Sandman listed. (Mark edits — the fact that it's not listed[...]

The Sandman: Overture is getting a double page interior foldout splash in the first issue We're getting Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny as well as The Corinthian, Merv Pumpkinhead and more… That and full details on the new comics, Coffin Hill, The Hinterkind and The Witching Hour, here are Vertigo's solicitations for October 2013. THE[...]

THE DISCIPLE comes to you from writer Peter Milligan and artist Leo Fernandez. DEAD BOY DETECTIVES – Spinning out of the pages of Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN, two dead British school boys star in their own monthly series and solve crimes in the 21st century with the help of a new female accomplice Premiering in November, DEAD[...]

The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III, will begin on Oct 30, and be published bi-monthly, so says DC Comics to the New York Times. Other new projects include Hinterkind by Ian Edginton, which focuses on a post-apocalyptic world in which the creatures of myth and legend have returned The Discipline by Peter Milligan, an erotic[...]

The Promethea Immateria, a hardcover collection collection all 32 issues of Promethea, sideways, preserving the double page spreads that were the signature of Alan Moore and JH Williams' grimoire-disguised-as-a-superhero comic, has been but on hold. It was due to be published in September but has now been withdrawn from the schedules, along with the Annotated Sandman[...]

2013 is the 25th anniversary of The Sandman comic And when we may see the return, in the to-be-renamed Sandman Zero. Dave McKean has been commissioned by the show to design the cover for this year's San Diego Comic Con souvenir book, which also celebrates the anniversary of… Superman 75th Avengers 50th Doctor Strange 50th Doctor Who 50th X-Men 50th ElfQuest 35th The[...]

The Q&As threw up some interesting tidbits. Regarding Sandman Zero, Gaiman reinforced that more favourable contract terms led to the project coming about He's driving his editors 'mad and sad' with his achingly slow progress One of the joys of the project is getting JH Williams III to draw the impossible, citing an image in the[...]

For this year's Emerald City Comicon, they put on a performance at Seattle legendary Crocodile venue, with songs inspired by Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. Kicking off the night was Mark Blasco, backed by fellow Bushwickers, Mozo It was a more upbeat and rocking performance than most, and also fairly sincere One of the trademarks of the[...]

Mike Dringenberg is the co-creator of The Sandman, the DC comic he worked on, and is credited alongside Neil Gaiman and Sam Keith on every issue So his signature on such items is often in demand. And you might sometimes consider he's a bit down on the whole signature game. But as a result of this, he[...]

Now I've just been given another reason. And it looks like it's going to be a big day for JH Williams III in many ways… Read through the first issue script of Sandman: Zero from @neilhimselftonight, it's a smooth and creamy dreamcicle of an opening chapter. — J.H Williams III (@JHWilliamsIII) February 20, 2013   Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics,[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston Every new year brings out the brightest and the breeziest in comic books, creators, and publishers.

Arguably responsible for many of DC's biggest successes, working with Alan Moore on Swamp Thing, recruiting the likes of Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Jamie Delano, Mark Buckingham, Peter Milligan, Mike Carey, China Mieville and so many more DC Comics, with successes such as Sandman, Preacher, Invisibles, Fables and Hellblazer on her watch, since[...]

Getting shot down, he then took that idea and published it through DC Comics as Sandman… And for those who would like to see what a Neil Gaiman Wild Cards story might have looked like, there's always Temps… It's always fun when these stories come out. MTV News interviewed George RR Martin about Wild Cards, the series[...]

And in doing so, meets up with a familiar bird… and a familiar castle. A while ago I was told the rumour that Sandman was going to be part of the New 52 It was denied by people who knew better, and later we ran the stories of Sandman Zero being published by DC Vertigo, and[...]

Neil Gaiman tweeted; Some years ago, I had to pitch/explain SANDMAN to Warners Jill Thompson illustrated the pitch That art's for sale All this work can be found at Cadence Comic Art with price around the $800 level. [...]

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer have done a video interview with Wired, during which Gaiman discusses some of the background surrounding the new Sandman project This tracks to a great extent with what Rich told us when he broke the news last week, and fills in a couple of gaps A couple of excerpts from[...]

Sure, it was announced that Neil Gaiman would be returning to The Sandman to write a six issue mini illustrated by J.H Williams III But it was a video announcement And it came at the very end of the panel The vast majority of the time it felt like watching a Vertigo Comics infomercial and[...]

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