Gaiman is the creator/writer of the recently concluded DC Comics series, Sandman, for which he has won awards for the best continuing series, the Harvey Award for best writer and the World Fantasy Award for best short story. The complete story of the Sandman, hailed by Norman Mailer as a literary achievement, is contained in 10 volumes of graphic novels, beginning with Preludes and Nocturnes and ending with The Wake. Sandman the comic sold over a million copies a year, and the collections have sold over three quarters of a million copies in paperback and hardback. Gaiman made headlines when he announced that, at issue 75, the story of the Sandman was over and the series, which was at the time DC's best-selling comic, was cancelled. Sandman has been optioned for a movie by Warner Brothers.
Gaiman's other books include Signal to Noise, a graphic novella about a dying film director, and Angels and Visitations, a collection of his short fiction, prose and journalism, and Death: The High Cost of Living, a three-part series which Warner Brothers also has optioned as a movie. His current project is called Stardust, a serialized fairy tale for adults. Gaiman's six-part fantastical TV series for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Neverwhere, set in a surreal London underworld, was broadcast in the fall of 1996, and his novel of the same name has recently been released. He is currently working on a script for a Neverwhere film and also is working on a film of the Beowulf saga. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, was chosen by Newsweek as one of the best children's books of 1997.
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