![]() ![]() Or as Gaiman is fond of repeating: “It was an awful lot like Michelangelo calling you up and saying, ‘If you’re not doing anything this weekend, do you want to do a ceiling?’” This was like an surprise dream apprenticeship to a master craftsman. The younger writer said he was consumed with “trying to ride the Sandman wave” to which Pratchett replied: “Well, I know what happens next – so either you can sell me what you’ve done and the idea or we can write it together.” Three years on, Gaiman’s Sandman comics “took off and became this mad thing of early success” – which is when, somewhere early in 1989, Pratchett called to find out what progress Gaiman had made on his book. ![]() When Gaiman started a novel of his own, with the amusing conceit that children's book character Just William is the spawn of Lucifer, it was a given that he would send the first 25 pages to his friend to have a look. ![]()
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