Welcome to the 924th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the second legend of a surprisingly “redrawn comic books” theme installment, discover whether Alex Ross nearly redrew the first seven issues of the iconic DC series, The Sandman.One of the interesting things about the early issues of the iconic comic book series, The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman, is that the artists on the series, which introduced Morpheus of the Endless (the “Sandman” of the series) were not particularly consistent. The first four issues of the series were penciled by Sam Kieth, and inked by Mike Dringenberg. Then Malcolm Jones III inked Kieth on the fifth issue of the series. Then Macolm Jones III inked Dringenberg on issues #6-11 (with Dringenberg handling art duties by himself on The Sandman #8, which famously introduced Morpheus’ sister, Death of the Endless).Kieth also noted in an excellent interview with Sequential Tart, “[W]hen I was working on Sandman, I was really unhappy, and I don’t think I was doing my best work, and everybody was trying to get me to quit and I was trying to get myself fired. [Laughs] Then, when I left, I really wanted to try to do something that was — see, the problem is I’m a weird guy in a world that … it’s a lot different now than it was 10 years ago, but then, if you were weird, you really stuck out from everybody else — and I was really worried, working at Marvel, just crawling into their superhero books, that people wouldn’t get my work and it would just seem really strange, and I’d be rejected.” Luckily for Kieth, his Marvel work ended up becoming a bit of a sensation (even though he DID continue to be strange…in a good way!), and he was able to later launch The Maxx at Image Comics (which later led to a classic MTV cartoon).
Welcome to the 924th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the second legend of a surprisingly “redrawn comic books” theme installment, discover whether Alex Ross nearly redrew the first seven issues of the iconic DC series, The Sandman.
One of the interesting things about the early issues of the iconic comic book series, The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman, is that the artists on the series, which introduced Morpheus of the Endless (the “Sandman” of the series) were not particularly consistent. The first four issues of the series were penciled by Sam Kieth, and inked by Mike Dringenberg. Then Malcolm Jones III inked Kieth on the fifth issue of the series. Then Macolm Jones III inked Dringenberg on issues #6-11 (with Dringenberg handling art duties by himself on The Sandman #8, which famously introduced Morpheus’ sister, Death of the Endless).
Kieth also noted in an excellent interview with Sequential Tart, “[W]hen I was working on Sandman, I was really unhappy, and I don’t think I was doing my best work, and everybody was trying to get me to quit and I was trying to get myself fired. [Laughs] Then, when I left, I really wanted to try to do something that was — see, the problem is I’m a weird guy in a world that … it’s a lot different now than it was 10 years ago, but then, if you were weird, you really stuck out from everybody else — and I was really worried, working at Marvel, just crawling into their superhero books, that people wouldn’t get my work and it would just seem really strange, and I’d be rejected.” Luckily for Kieth, his Marvel work ended up becoming a bit of a sensation (even though he DID continue to be strange…in a good way!), and he was able to later launch The Maxx at Image Comics (which later led to a classic MTV cartoon).
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