From: tyg@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN QUESTIONS - HELP, PLEASE.
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 16:20:30 GMT

In article <1992Apr4.140438.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> pdorsey@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>I have, so far, been unable to locate any
>collectors out in this godforsaken town where I'm going to school, so I'm

Oh, come now, you're just not trying hard enough. I mean, no comics collectors
at Wesleyan? A school with the rep Wesleyan has for an interesting student
body must surely have a few. Middletown is pretty dead though.

>1. Is the "Season of Mist" storyline from SANDMAN going to be issued in a
>colllected trade paperback anytime soon? I've purchased (slowly) all of the

It'll almost surely be collected as a trade pb, but I've not heard any 
definite dates. Definitely not before summer, as it's not been solicited yet.

>2. What else have McKean or Gaiman done? I've got Black Orchid, but that's it.
>I heard references to something called the Books of Magic, as well as the 
>Cages series.

Well, they did Violent Cases which is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel
about encounters with Al Capone's osteopath. Books of Magic was done by Gaiman
and four artists, one for each issue of the series. Gaiman is also co-writer
of the prose novel Good Omens, available in trade paperback. Cages is both
drawn and written by McKean.

>3. What else has Alan Moore done besides Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and
>Watchmen? Anything of interest to a poor fan? Ditto with Frank Miller (aside
>from the Elektra books, Ronin, and the two Batman graphic novels, that is.)

Moore did four Superman stories (one DC Comics Presents, one Annual, and the
last two in Superman and Action before the 1986 revamping), is currently
doing From Hell about Jack the Ripper which appears in Taboo and is collected
into volumes (one of which is out) and Big Numbers, which is stalled after
#2 of 12 for over a year now. Ballad of Halo Jones was just issued as a
collected volume, and there are a couple of Titan import volumes from England
of his short work for the British 2000A.D.  There's various other work which
is generally hard to find these days.

For Miller, you could watch Robocop2 which he wrote the script for. He's also
writing the RoboCop v. Terminator series due out this summer and is doing
Sin City in Dark Horse Presents. He's also done Give Me Liberty and Hard
Boiled for Dark Horse (the latter of which is *very* violent if you have
problems with such), and his original run on Daredevil where he created 
Elektra, as well as an Elektra mini-series.

>5. Has Dream (or any of the other characters from Sandman) appeared in
>other series as crossovers or whatever? Which characters and issues?

Well, Death appeared in an issue of Captain Atom which Gaiman despised. 
Dream and Death also appear in Books of Magic, which Gaiman wrote.
Otherwise, it's tricky because several of the supporting characters in
Sandman first appeared in other books. Cain, Abel, Lucien, Destiny, and
the Kindly Ones all debuted in old DC mystery books. In general, these
aren't worth searching out as Gaiman handles them much better. Matthew
the Raven first appeared in Swamp Thing, with the Moore issues explaining
how he ended up dead.

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