The Dreaming and "The Dreaming"

["Brian J Dillard" <dillardb@student.msu.edu>]

mike,

i don't know if kate and neil "the sandman" gaiman have ever met, but i think
it is obvious he is a big fan of her work. aside from the obvious parallel
(mentioned in the header to this post), why, in the world's end cycle alone we
have references to and stories about the big sky AND the handsome cabin boy . .
. . and every time i hear 'egypt' and the line "my pussy queen," i picture that
dreadful todd mcfarlane picture of morpheus and bast . . . . . and immediately
try to conjure up images of bast drawn by, say, jill thompson. . . . . in a
more general and probably more appropriate sense than these 1:1 parallels is
both artists' (neil's and kate's) penchant for refiguring pieces of myth and
fiction created by others and wringing something new from them. i once dreamt,
after musing on the strange parallels b/t tori and kate, that neil and tori
were hanging out in london. . . . her the failed rock chick and him the
up-and-coming comix writer. . . . and he turns her onto this great singer she
probably never heard of, coming from america and all, and she suddenly finds
the direction she needs. . . . a few years later she's an icon and she owes it
all to niel . . . .and kate


in case some of you have no idea what we're talking about, it's The Sandman, a
monthly (well, kinda) comic book from vertigo/dc comics about a family of
immortal meta-deities called the endless . . . .destiny, death, dream,
destruction, desire, despair and delirium . . . . . literate as hell,
entertaining and philosophically stimulating. . . . (usually) well-drawn. the
closest think to a Kately comic there is . . . . the character delirium is
partially modelled, physically and in personality, on tori, the writer's pal.
in 'space dog,' that's the "where's niel when you need him" reference. . . .

anyway. . . . .

brian