Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman – The High Cost of Fantasy
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Neil Gaiman's the Sandman
The 75 issues of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman offer up a startling catalogue of unforgettable ideas and imagery. If it's true that good artists borrow and great artists steal, the young Neil Gaiman staked a claim to being our era's greatest storyteller by stealing it all. Every great mephos with barely a fairy story or tall tale untouched during the seven-year run of the Sandman comics. A serial killer convention. The key to the Kingdom of Hell. A library of humankind's greatest unwritten books. These images swirl up from a sandstorm of literary illusions, intertextual references, borrowings and outright thefts from the history of storytelling.
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