How did you avoid comparisons and similarities? You're right about our styles being so different. Many 'Dream Hunters' readers remember the Amano illustrations in the novella, but the two of you don't have a lot in common stylistically. Unlettered pages from 'The Sandman: The Dream Hunters' #1 When I was available there were several other Gaiman projects plus others like the Oscar Wilde books to finish so it wasn't until last summer that I called DC once again and it finally was the right time to address 'The Dream Hunters.' DC offered it to me around that time or shortly thereafter but I was in the middle of a five-year-long project (the 400 hundred-page 'The Ring of the Nibelung') and couldn't commit until it was complete. Craig Russel: I read Neil's first rough draft some ten years ago and knew immediately I wanted to adapt it. Craig Russell to learn more about his adaptation of 'The Dream Hunters.' CBR: How did end up working on 'The Sandman: The Dream Hunters?'P. When CBR reviewed the first issue of Russell's version, Greg McElhatton called the book ' one of the most beautiful comics you'll see all year.' CBR News caught up with P. Earlier this year saw the release of Russell's adaptation of Gaimain's children's book 'Coraline,' and available in stores now is his adaptation of 'The Sandman: The Dream Hunters,' originally a novella with illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano. Russell's also illustrated a short story in 'The Sandman: Endless Nights,' and adapted and illustrated the Gaimain short story 'Murder Mysteries' for Dark Horse. Howard, and has worked with some of comics' finest writers including Don McGregor, Roy Thomas, Bill Willingham, Mike Carey, and Mike Mignola.Russell is probably best known for his many collaborations with writer Neil Gaiman, for whom he illustrated 'Ramadan' in issue #50 of Vertigo's 'The Sandman,' reprinted in 'Absolute Sandman' Volume 3. Beyond Wagner and Oscar Wilde, Russell has adapted 'Elric: Stormbringer' by Michael Moorcock and 'Conan: The Jewels of Gwalhur' by Robert E. Russell is clearly less interested in superheroes and standard comic book tropes than in fantasy, a genre whose breadth can be seen reflected in the scope of his work.

He is a creator who has trod his own path, spending much of his artistic career working on passionate projects, adapting to the medium things like operas - most notably Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung' - and the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde. Craig Russell is one of the most acclaimed and admired artists working in the comics industry today.

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