As the creator of The Sandman for DC Comics, writer Neil Gaiman has
won every major award in the comics industry, as well as the
prestigious 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, the only
comic-book writer ever to be awarded this literary honor. Cited by
the LA Times as "the greatest epic in the history of comic books,"
the ten Sandman collections have sold several million copies and
remain in print to this day. Having thus made his mark, Gaiman
wrote another highly regarded series for DC with Books of Magic.
Also noteworthy was his work on Eclipse Comics' Miracleman, which
he picked up after close friend Alan Moore left the book. In
addition, Gaiman collaborated with Terry Pratchett on the wistful
apocalypse novel Good Omens and in 1997 wrote the BBC teleplay
Neverwhere, a story he later adapted into a novel. Gaiman's other
novels, American Gods and his children's book Coraline, garnered
New York Times best-selling status and international acclaim
including the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards. In 2001, Gaiman
made his first foray into Marvel Comics with his series Marvel
1602, a series in which Gaiman took the core cast of Marvel's
Silver Age comics, placed them 400 years in the past and retold
their stories in his own inimitable way. Aided by stunning art from
Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove, Marvel 1602 was the top-selling
comic of the year. Next venturing into film, Gaiman collaborated
with artist Dave McKean - a compatriot from his days on Sandman -
on the feature Mirrormask, a mix of live-action, animation and
puppetry that saw its critically acclaimed premiere in late 2005.
As a passionate defender of the First Amendment, the Comic Book
Legal Defense Fund named Gaiman the 1997 Defender of Liberty, and
he now serves on that organization's Board of Directors. Born in
Porchester, England, Gaiman lives outside Minneapolis with his
wife, Mary, and their three children.
Growing up in England, Mark Buckingham always dreamed of drawing
comics. In 1987, he inked the best-selling Death- The High Cost of
Living by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo. He went on to contribute
to The Sandman, Hellblazer and Shade the Changing Man. Buckingham
has been the regular artist on Batman- Shadow of the Bat, The
Titans, Peter Parker- Spider-Man and Fables.
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