An obsessive collection of portraits from the Sandman comic series.
Instead of calling upon Destiny in either of their respective galleries, they decide to visit Destiny’s garden.
They go to an amusement park and go through the Crazy Maze, which is a labyrinth and all labyrinths lead to Destiny’s garden.
These teenagers are at the amusement park as Dream and Delirium enter the park. They are about to go on one of the amusement park rides.
They appear in Sandman # 47, on page 5, in panel 5.
This convention is eerily similar to other conventions, particularly comic book conventions. The Cereal convention has panels and discussions regarding a variety of topics relating to death and killing.
This particular serial killer attended The Corinthian’s was giving guest of honor speech.
This man was sitting in the audience with other serial killers listening to the speech. Dream appears to be sitting a few rows behind him.
This serial killer appears in Sandman # 14, on page 32 panel 5.
Outside Letterman’s studio a group of Foxglove’s fans wait for her.
This man appears in Death: The Time Of Your Life # 1, on page 24, panel 6.
He is standing near the doorway to the studio. I am unsure exactly what his role is. He is not the chauffeur, since we see him in panel 11 and he’s obviously a different person. He could be a bodyguard for Foxglove, but it doesn’t seem likely since he is standing so far away from her. It’s possible that he is some sort of employee of the David Letterman studios.
While there he wanders the streets listening to the church bells, the “shrill blips and beeps of mobile phones” and voices of the people around him.
This man and woman are both talking on their cell phones as Sergei passes them.
They appears in Endless Nights, in “Death In Venice” on page 4, in panel 3.
After performing Whole Wide World on David Letterman, she leaves the studio to head to the premier of Day In The Park, which features one of her songs on the soundtrack.
Outside Letterman’s studio a group of Foxglove’s fans wait for her. This is one of her fans.
This woman appears in Death: The Time Of Your Life # 1, on page 24, panel 2.
He is in the audience when Chronzon offers his seemingly unbeatable move, which is quickly followed by Dreams simple three word victory move. “I am hope.”
This Demon is in Sandman # 4 on page 19, panel 6.
Rose arrives in England and goes to Fawney Rig, where Unity spend a majority of her life asleep. Fawney Rig was originally the home of Roderick Burgess and later became a nursing home run by Paul MaGuire, the lover of Alex Burgess, who has been asleep since Dream’s escape in 1988.
While wandering around the house Rose encounters three women who are residents of Fawney Rig. One of the women, Magda Treadgold, tells Rose a story of a Man “Who Loved The Ladies.”
This man would try to romance any woman with a pretty face and once they outlived his desire he would move on to another town and another woman.
One day he saw a beautiful woman bathing in a river and he promised her that if she was his “lady-love” he would give back the clothes he had hidden. She agreed but only under the condition that she would be his wife and would be married at the next church they passed. He agreed and promised saying things like “If I don’t marry you, may that the worms shall eat me” and “if I don’t marry you, I wish that our children might grow wings and fly away.”
She became his “lady-love” which is really just a polite way of saying that they had sex.
On their travels they passed a church, but the man made an excuse as to why they could not be married in there. Eventually she became pregnant and needs a house to live in.
The Man finds a cottage inhabited by an Old Woman. The man went into the house and found the Old Woman was asleep in the bed. She was old and weak and the man smothered her and buried her in the midden heap, which is a dump for domestic waste. According to Magda, it is unclear if the woman was a witch or simply an old woman. That aspect changes depending on who is telling the story.
The man told the woman that his old aunt had died and she left him this cottage.
For the next several years, the woman had three children, all beautiful girls and the man would visit a few days at a time and then leave to go seduce other women. Sometimes he would bring back a hen or a pig for the mother and his children to eat.
One day when he returned home his children were not at the cottage.
When he asked the woman where his girls were she replied “gathering berries” or “off fishing”. Eventually he becomes persistant and asks where they are and she tells him that “they’ve flown away.” The man does not believe the woman and when she will not tell him where his daughters are he goes outside and gets an axe and kills the woman.
He then hears a noise outside and goes to see what it is.
His three daughters, who now have wings, fly down from the sky to their father. When they ask where their mother is he replies that she is “gathering berries” and when they ask about the blood on his hands and on the floor he tells them he was “killing a pig.”
The youngest of the three girls looks under the bed and finds the body of their mother.
They let out a long sad wail and jumped on him, scratching and tearing at his flesh, until he was dead.
They flew off into the sky and were never seen again.
The Little Girls with Wings appear in Sandman # 62 on pages 13-15.
She took her back to her apartment and placed her in a protection circle because she knew, with the events that had been put into motion, Morpheus would be searching for Lyta, possibly to kill her.
Thessaly fell asleep and dreams of people hanging from silver chains, hooks puncturing their skin and she feels a flicker of sadness and regret.
When she awakes she sees Dream standing before her.
The dream is something very reminiscent of the Hellraiser films, but I suspect that Thessaly has never seen those movies. Perhaps this is a nightmare of remembrance of things past…or perhaps it is simply a nightmare.
This character is one of the corpses hanging in Thessaly’s nightmare.
He appears in Sandman # 65, on page 18, in panel 3.
One day, out of the blue, she received a phone call from an old co-worker, Della Kariakis who invites her for lunch at a restaurant called Da Vinci in the mall.
Urania prepares for her lunch date by making a silicate mask that resembled her face prior to her transformation.
When Urania meets Della for lunch, she learns that Della has a secret pregnancy that she cannot share with anyone from the company due to the illicit nature of the relationship with the father, who is a married man with the company.
When a group of handicapped kids pass by with their teachers. Della comments that she hopes her baby is not a freak like them. When Urania tried to defend the children Della explains that they make her skin crawl. At this moment Urania’s mask falls off, into her spaghetti and Urania runs out of the restaurant, upset.
This man is on the sidewalk as Urania runs out of the restaurant. He is shocked and frightenen by the unusual looking woman, crying, as she is running from the restaurant.
He appears in Sandman # 20, on page 12, in panel 1.
In the outskirts of his city there were three women who loved in an old run-down house. The one of the women was young, one was old and the third was neither young nor old. He visited these three women to seek advice on finding peace and a release from the fear. They provided him with a way to gain the strength of a monk in the mountain who feared and desired nothing.
The Onmyoji had to perform a ritual in order to kill the Monk, but needed some personal objects of the monk in order to complete the rite.
The Onmyoji sent his demon servants into the mountains in order to steal a few items that the Monk had touched. This is one of the demons who was sent to gather the belongings of the Monk.
He appears in P. Craig Russell’s Dream Hunters # 2, on page 12, in panel 6.
In Japanese mythology Tengu is a type of yōkai, which is a supernatural creature).
You can read about Tengu here and yōkai, in general, here
Tengu appears in the P. Craig Russell version of Dream Hunters in Issue # 2, on page 5, in panel 2.
Max drew this character traditionally, but also did some digital alterations to the portrait. I’ve included the original piece, as well as the back drawing and digital enhanced portrait here.
This Aurelian Citizen is one of the men he sees as he enters the city.
He appears in Sandman # 52, on page 6, in panel 4. He is in walking to the side, as Cluracan rides his horse through the city.
In September 1964, Samuel Clemens, who is famously known as Mark Twain, is having trouble writing a short story. In his frustration he takes a break and offers to take Emperor Joshua Norton, who was standing on the street, out to lunch.
These citizens of San Francisco is on the street outside the Morning Call building.
They appears in Sandman # 31, on page 9, in panel 4.
