"Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN is the most imaginative and transfixing book in mainstream comics today -- and also the most radical. It tells eerie, loopy, sometimes desolating tales about capricious, ill-starred gods and frail humans, and it pulls off the rather neat trick of making Death, at long last, something to die for. Yet even in its most otherworldly moments, SANDMAN's greatest (and most disturbing) strength is that all its horrors, and all its hopes, are only as profound and familiar as the human heart itself.
To read THE SANDMAN is to read something more than an imaginative new comic: it is to read a powerful new literature, freash with resonance of timeless myths"

Mikal Gilmore
Rolling Stone

"Far and above the most inventive and most human comic of the decade."

Samuel R. Delany

"Along with all else, SANDMAN is a comic strip for intellectuals and I say it's about time."

Norman Mailer

"These are great stories, and we're lucky to have them. To read NOW and maybe again. Then, later on, when we need what only a good story has the power to do: to take us away to worlds that never existed, in the company of people we wish we were... or thank God we aren't."

Stephen King

"Neil Gaiman is on a plane all his own. Nobody in his field is better than this. No one has as much range, depth, and command of narrative. Gaiman is a master, and his vast, roomy stories, filled with every possible shade of feeling, are unlike anyone else's. If this isn't literature, nothing is."

Peter Straub