Authors: Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
Born: 10 November 1960
Portchester, Hampshire, England









Neil "Scary Trousers" Gaiman is a writer who likes to mix up epic myths, legendary gods and old folklores with the everyday preoccupations of glum teens and frazzled outcasts: resulting in a blend that is distinctive and compulsively readable. He's best known in comic circles for his epic Sandman series which stretched over eight years and 75 issues (not counting all the various spin-offs) and raised the bar considerably for the quality, depth and reach that comics could aspire to (without having to go down the "grim+gritty" route). He's also done some cool stuff with Dave McKean (including Violent Cases and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch), took Marvel superheroes back to the Elizabethan era (Marvel 1602) and penned the last ever Batman story (Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?). Of course since then he's branched out into the wider world with novels, children's books, screenplays, journalism and writing Doctor Who - but there's a corner in the heart of every Sandman fan who that will always belong to him.

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Links: Official website.

Selected works: Violent Cases, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, Signal to Noise, The Sandman, The Sandman: Death: The High Cost of Living, The Sandman: Death: The Time of Your Life, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, Stardust, The Sandman: Endless Nights, Murder Mysteries, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Coraline, Marvel 1602, Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?.

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