Gaiman, Neil: - Gaiman began his writing career in England as a journalist.
In 1991, Sandman became the first comic ever to receive a literary award, the 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story..
The groundbreaking series Sandman followed, collecting a large number of US awards in its 75 issue run, including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards and three Harvey Awards.
This early graphic novel led to their series Black Orchid , published by DC Comics.
Violent Cases was the first of many collaborations with artist Dave McKean.
Gaiman describes his early writing: I was very, very good at taking a voice that already existed and parodying or pastiching it.
His first book was a Duran Duran biography that took him three months to write, and his second was a biography of Douglas Adams, Don\'t Panic: The Official Hitch Hiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy Companion .
Gaiman, Neil: - Gaiman began his writing career in England as a journalist
