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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