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The Sandman by Dirk Maggs (audiobook adaptation), Full Cast & Neil Gaiman
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The Sandman

by Dirk Maggs (audiobook adaptation), Full Cast & Neil Gaiman

The Sandman comic book series—written by Neil Gaiman, and featuring the work of various artists—ran from 1989 to 1996. Norman Mailer once described it as “a comic strip for intellectuals.”

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“The series has been adapted by Dirk Maggs and performed with this incredible cast that’s led by James McAvoy. Neil is in it—who is of course a wonderful storyteller himself—Michael Sheen, Taron Egerton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis. It’s a great cast and the adaption that Dirk Maggs did is brilliant. If you’re not familiar with him, he was a collaborator with Douglas Adams on all The Hitchhiker’s Guides. So he has done many different adaptions and productions of audio drama and this is quite something. It’s dark, it’s very mysterious, but it’s very engrossing as a listening experience. It was too scary for me, but I loved the audio experience of it.” Read more...

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Robin Whitten, Journalist

“Crossing gender is not phenomenal in Neil Gaiman’s universe – it just happens. In his cosmology desire has no gender, which is a profound statement in and of itself. There are trans characters in the books, including one based on a common friend of ours, Roz Kaveney, a poet and trans activist. The Sandman doesn’t exactly make trans normal, but he makes it something that’s expected.” Read more...

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Kate Bornstein, Memoirist

The book, according to the author

Early in my career I wrote an awful lot of comics. Comics is a medium that gets mistaken for a genre. Nobody minded if, in Sandman, or in graphic novels, I lurched from doing historical fiction to social realism to eschatological imaginings to children’s fantasies to horror in comics. It was all comics, so therefore it was all one thing. When I found myself drifting more and more over into prose, I wasn’t prepared to give that up. I wasn’t prepared to stop writing what I wanted.

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