{"id":1515,"date":"2007-12-01T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2007-12-01T06:17:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T06:17:15","slug":"the-sandman-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/12\/01\/the-sandman-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sandman Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/the-sandman-companion.jpg\" alt=\"The Sandman Companion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Hy Bender<\/strong> (Titan Books)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84023-150-5<\/p>\n<p>No <strong>Sandman<\/strong> fan&#8217;s life can be considered complete without this knowledgeable tome of interviews and commentary on the 10 graphic novel compilations that comprise the basic canon of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s groundbreaking re-imagining of the classic DC superhero.<\/p>\n<p>This book features an issue-by-issue exploration of the text, a series overview, influences and backstory, explorations of symbolism and interviews with many of Gaiman&#8217;s artistic collaborators plus comments and appreciations from such celebrity fans as Peter Straub, Samuel R. Delaney, Tori Amos, Alan Moore, and Harlan Ellison. Liberally illustrated throughout, and including many pre-production sketches and proposal drawings, there is also a beautiful colour section of rare art and artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>If you are the kind of reader who needs more than the book itself, this erudite and expansive book should be a delight and a revelation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1999 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hy Bender (Titan Books) ISBN: 1-84023-150-5 No Sandman fan&#8217;s life can be considered complete without this knowledgeable tome of interviews and commentary on the 10 graphic novel compilations that comprise the basic canon of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s groundbreaking re-imagining of the classic DC superhero. This book features an issue-by-issue exploration of the text, a series &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/12\/01\/the-sandman-companion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sandman Companion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}