Neil Gaiman Updates

During last weekend’s World Horror Convention in Denver, Colorado, Gaiman accepted the 1999 Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Illustrated Narrative for Sandman: The Dream Hunters. Other finalists for the award were: Joe R. Lansdale for Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1, Mike Mignola for Hellboy: Box Full of Evil, and David Quinn for Faust: Book of M. The Stokers are often called the “Oscars” of the horror genre.

Comics Continuum is reporting that DC Comics has announced a number of new merchandise items that will be released for this year’s holiday season. Among the items are The Sandman Incarnations Deluxe Action Figure series. The figures are the Lord of Dreams from the award winning “Arabian Nights” issue and the Japanese Sandman from the Neil Gaiman/Yoshitaka Amano collaboration “Dream Hunters.” The Dream Hunters figure stands 6.25″ tall and features multiple points of articulation and comes with a cloak a small Baku and is packaged in a 4-color window box. Price information has not been announced, but the figures will be released December 13th.