![]() And I rapidly stopped having nightmares after that.”Ĭurrently, Gaiman is juggling several other projects, too. “…Part of me would be like, ‘Oh, that’s great! I can use that!’ And I would be so excited. “Once I started doing ‘Sandman,’ suddenly it all changed,” he says. By the time he was scripting his first breakthrough title for DC’s Vertigo imprint - the stunning 50-book series “Sandman,” whose surreal covers were all illustrated by his longtime friend Dave McKean - Gaiman had the technique down pat. Somewhere along the way, however, Gaiman began to embrace that fear, even revel in it.Īs the British-bred, now Minnesota-based author gradually left the safe world of journalism for a creative free-fall into comics, he started keeping a notebook on his bedside table. And I still remember every bit, just how terrifying it was,” he says. ![]() And there was one witch who was willing to protect me, while all of the others wanted to kill and eat me. “I had this recurring dream that I was in this enormous house filled with evil witches. ![]() ![]() Kid, recalls Neil Gaiman, he was haunted by one particular nightmare, a vision so horrid he’d wake up trembling, drenched in sweat. ![]()
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