A Handful of Dust

Join us in celebrating the 25th year anniversary of The Sandman, a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman. The world of comic books was a very different place before The Sandman came into being. Chronicling the adventures of Dream, a fantastical character who is both lord and personification of all dreams and stories, the series enjoyed a run of 75 issues, from October 1988 until March 1996. The Sandman became a cult success for DC Comics and attracted an audience unlike that of mainstream comics -- by the time the series concluded in 1996, it was outselling the titles of DC's flagship characters of Superman and Batman. Neil Gaiman revolutionized the graphic novel form with The Sandman, an exquisite epic filled with shadowy realism and strange magical beings.