![]() ![]() ![]() After that it became more of, I guess, a fantasy tale, but one that allowed me to go off and write about Shakespeare or history.” Yes, after the first eight issues, Sandmanmorphed into something beyond a horror comic, but the horror roots remained throughout the book’s 75 issue run, a dark sun at the center of a complex and ever changing universe, making Sandmanone of the most influential horror comics in history. Those first eight issues was a sort of horror comic. In a 1998 interview with Hero Complex, Neil Gaiman discussed the nature of horror at Sandman’s beginning, “At the beginning it was a horror comic. Sandmanwas epic fantasy at its finest, grand in scope and ideas, it was a metaphysical examination on the nature of fiction, and it was, at its heart, a horror story. Sandmantranscended so-called industry limitations because it didn’t pigeonhole itself into one genre. Gaiman and his team of artists (including luminaries like Sam Keith, Dave McKean, Jill Thompson, Michael Zulli, and more) dared the comic industry to dream bigger. By creating stories about the nature of dreams, Mr. Sandmanbroke barriers and expectations taking comics into a new dawn of possibilities. When it ended, Gaiman had created one of the most enduring long form pieces of fiction of the twentieth century and carved out a niche for himself as an industry giant. When Sandmanbegan in 1989, Neil Gaiman was just another British writer following in the footsteps of the likes of Alan Moore. ![]()
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