The Sandman: Endless Nights - Hardcover First


 

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Description

An original collection of seven graphic stories that feature the character known as "The Sandman" who rules over humans as they sleep. Story titles: Death -- Desire -- Dream -- Despair -- Delirium -- Destruction -- Destiny.

From Publishers Weekly:

"In Sandman cosmology, "The Endless" are seven immortal siblings who personify abstract concepts: Dream, Death, Destiny and so on. This work devotes a story to each of them, drawn in distinctly different styles by an all-star lineup of American, British and European cartoonists and fine artists. Gaiman is famous for writing to his artists' strengths, and he does so here. P. Craig Russell draws the surreal fantasia "Death and Venice" with the opulent brio of his opera adaptations. "What I've Tasted of Desire" is a darkly sexual fable, painted by Milo Manara in the style of his more X-rated work. A couple of the stories find Gaiman working in a more experimental mode than usual, notably "Fifteen Portraits of Despair," a set of anecdotes and prose poems accompanied by Barron Storey's tormented, abstract drawings and paintings. Longtime comics fans will notice plenty of inside jokes in "The Heart of a Star," but most of this book is a red carpet-or perhaps a Persian rug-rolled out for Gaiman's prose readers to see his visions turned into lush, dramatic images."

Features

Glenn Fabry, Milo Manara, Miguelanxo Prado, Frank Quitely, P. Craig Russel, Bill Sienkiewicz, Barron Storey
Neil Gaiman

Condition & Attributes

Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket

Creators

Glenn
Fabry, Milo Manara, Miguelanxo Prado, Frank Quitely, P. Craig Russel, Bill Sienkiewicz, Barron Storey
Neil
Gaiman

Publishing Information

New York
Vertigo
2003
1st
1401200893

Physical Description

11 inches
7.5 inches
160 pages
color
Hardcover
leatherette
English