Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC Honors Projects Overview Honors Projects Spring 2011 Old Made New: Neil Gaiman's Storytelling in The Sandman Sara Reilly Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Fiction Commons Recommended Citation Reilly, Sara, "Old Made New: Neil Gaiman's Storytelling in The aS ndman" (2011). Honors Projects Overview. 52. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/52 This Honors is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors Projects at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Projects Overview by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Reilly 0 OLD MADE NEW: NEIL GAIMAN'S STORYTELLING IN THE SANDMAN By Sara Reilly An Honors Project Submitted in Partial Fufillment of the Requirement for Honors in The Department of English The School of Arts and Sciences Rhode Island College 2011 Reilly 1 Introduction Called “the most famous writer you’ve never heard of” by The Times (Craig), it is hard to pin down exactly what sort of author Neil Gaiman is famous for being. To this day, he is probably most known for the comics series The Sandman , but he has gone on to write more than comic books. He was the first author “to shatter the preconceptions of people both outside and within the [comics] industry” (Wagner 299) by making the unprecedented switch from comics to prose with Good Omens , a collaboration with British fantasy magnate Terry Pratchett, in 1990.