Hi there you lot

My girlfriend is a Neil gaiman fanatic but has no cash to buy the books. So i decided i going to buy here the Absolute Sandman for christmas

Can someone tell me how many volumes in the Absolute Sandman

Also can you recommend any other graphic novels or books from gaimen that are really good

I really want to suprise her in Xmas..so want to get her loads of Gaimen stuff cause she loves reading

Sorry if these are basic questions

Thank you in advance
Daniel

d_agra,

Does she have any of Neil's books already? Which ones?

- Chomiji

Absolute Sandman will eventually be 4 volumes long

Anything by Gaiman she'll love, and everything's good, but good gift ideas (especially, in my opinon) would be:
* The Sandman: the Dream Hunters -will this be in the Absolute compilation? It's a Sandman story but it doesn't belong to the series... the illustrations are fabulous!
* Stardust, the illustrated version with art by Charles Vess. Especially since there's a film being made and stuff.
* Maybe one of the audio books/story collections? Coraline (CD), read by Neil, is great.

The novels are all good, I think (American Gods, Anansi Boys, neverwhere, Good Omens with Terry Pratchett). There's different editions all the time, so it's your pick really, whether hardback (nicer) or paperback (easier to carry around, plus cheaper so you can buy her more ).

If your friends into graphic novels, the original Books of Magic is pretty cool and has some killer art as well. Make sure you get the first one though, because that's the only one Neil wrote.

Has she read all the novels? I think they are all in paperback now, so they're pretty affordable.

And I'm not sure about this, but I think only 1 volume of Absolute Sandman is available now.

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Originally posted by Chomiji:
d_agra,

Does she have any of Neil's books already? Which ones?

- Chomiji

She has none of them..but have read them..but she always asking when she has enough money she will buy them

I know Neil Gaimen is unique and cant compare him to anyone, is there any other authors or graphic novel that Neil Gaimen fans will like..or its like Neil Gaimen work..

thanks you lot..it helps a lot!!

For graphic novels, I'd recommend anything by Alan Moore, Hellboy, Lucifer, John Constantine Hellblazer (there's lots to choose from in that series). Grant Morrison is another comic writer who's amazing and has a huge body of work -- maybe Arkham Asylum (a Batman story that Dave McKean, who did all the Sandman covers, illustrated)?

Another amazing gift would be the Sandman Duscovers (all the Sandman covers, by Dave McKean, compiled into one volume, with explanaiton's by both Neil and Dave about each one of them, plsu a short story by Neil).

Also, Cages by dave McKean is amazing.