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The latest news and comment on the Neil Gaiman comic book series

August 2022

  • Sanjeev Bhaskar at home in north London

    The G2 interview
    ‘The establishment didn’t know what to do with me’: Sanjeev Bhaskar on marriage, success and stereotypes

    Goodness Gracious Me made him a household name. Now The Sandman could bring international stardom. He talks about the bullies who tried to keep him down – and life as reluctant role model

July 2022

  • The Sandman.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    The Sandman to Beavis and Butt-Head: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Neil Gaiman’s dark fantasy fable comes to life, and Mike Judge’s sniggering miscreants are back after a decade away. Plus, the shocking documentary Clusterf**k: Woodstock 99

July 2019

  • The Sandman: Endless Nights, by Neil Gaiman

    Books blog
    The Sandman, Catch-22, Cloud Atlas ... is there such thing as an 'unfilmable' book?

  • Catching up with history ... Morpheus, from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.

    Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is green lit by Netflix

February 2019

  • Neil Gaiman, author, in New York

    Culture webchats
    Neil Gaiman on Good Omens, Sandman film rumours and his next book

    Good Omens, Neverwhere, Coraline, American Gods ... the genre-defying author joined us to answer your questions

October 2018

  • The Sandman Universe #1- cover by Jae Lee

    Neil Gaiman's Sandman unlocks an entire universe – in pictures

  • ‘All stories can be folded into Sandman.’ Neil Gaiman, second from left, with the authors taking Sandman forwards: from left Kat Howard, Nalo Hopkinson, Si Spurrier and Dan Watters.

    Bigger dreams: how Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe is expanding

March 2018

  • Sandman Universe author group shot:

    Re-enter Sandman: Neil Gaiman's comics return with new writers

    Bestselling author appoints a team of four fantasy writers for the launch of the Sandman Universe later this year

November 2016

  • Neil Gaiman has seen his work adapted to the big screen – notably his creepy children’s book Coraline – but has found greater success in TV.

    Film blog
    Sandman: is Neil Gaiman's comic masterpiece unfilmable?

    The adaptation of the author’s classic work has been shedding writers, directors and has left some people wondering if the project is cursed

March 2016

  • The Sandman: Endless Nights, by Neil Gaiman

    Neil Gaiman's Sandman: maybe a film adaptation just isn't meant to be

  • ‘I came to realise that the folks at New Line and I just don’t see eye to eye on what makes Sandman special’ ... Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt quits adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman over creative differences

January 2016

  • Lucifer: the devil wears a very nice suit.

    Brian Moylan's having an episode
    Lucifer: the devil's charismatic but the show is predictable as hell

    Based on a much-loved comic book character from Neil Gaiman’s comic The Sandman, Lucifer is a derivative drama with a satanic twist

October 2013

  • The Sandman

    How we made
    Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean: how we made The Sandman

  • Sandman

    Sandman: Dave McKean's favourite covers - in pictures

July 2013

  • The Sandman

    Neil Gaiman's Sandman returns for prequel

    Author to release six-issue series focused on 'the one story we never got to tell'

July 2012

  • Neil Gaiman

    Dream come true: Neil Gaiman to create new Sandman 'prequel'

    The author of the popular graphic novels has told Comic-Con he will publish a mini-series telling the story of the character Morpheus before his capture

October 2003

  • Send me your dreams

    Iain Emsley enjoys new tales from one of DC Comics' greatest characters in The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman

July 1999

  • The illustrated man

  • Mark Sandman

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