Yeah, me too, like the Silver City, but I don't think it is the being we think of when we talk about god Father, for example.

Or, as one of my polytheist friends put it, The Creator checks Jehovah's e-mail and phone messages every once in a while.

Neil put it quite well when he said AMERICAN GODS SPOILERS"Wednesday is Odin, but Odin is not Wednesday".

Excellent summary of how he seems to view his private mythology.

From Everything2, both an homage to and an homage in SANDMAN:
Q: Where did Klaproth's name come from?


A: Martin Heinrich Klaproth was an early German chemist. He learned chemistry while working as an apothecary's assistant, later performing that job in cities like Hannover, Berlin, and Gdañsk. He was hired by the University of Berlin when it was originally founded in 1810. Klaproth was their first professor of chemistry, a position he held until his death. Klaproth was considered the father of analytical chemistry. Some of his discoveries included uranium, zirconium, chromium, and cerium. His specialty was devising quantitative methods of mineral analysis, which was used extensively in chemical analysis in the field of archaeology. Of course, he had nothing to do with why we selected 'Klaproth' as our director of death around here: Klaproth is a Neil Gaiman character from the Sandman series. He's the Master of Funerary Rites in Necropolis.

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:
I'd always imagined the Sandman God, or creator-deity, as being closely related to the same character from Smoke & Mirrors.

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I just take the offical line that it was editorial fiat by the DCU... as for the nature of the Presence, i agree with you about Smoke and Mirrors. He's distant, and more powerful then anyone else, and the Spectre is his embodied wrath... i think he gets explored more in detail in LUCIFER. From what i hear on other boards he's the most powerful God now 'cause the most people believe in him (a bit of in-unviverse explanation: the real reason is that DC dosen't want to be accused of being "pagan" or whatever)