P. Craig Russell is known throughout the comic-book world as an artist’s artist. His lush, detailed, clean-line artwork—ranging from adaptations of Wagner’s opera and Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales to fantasy comics like Conan and Elric—has inspired everyone from creators like Mike Mignola to today’s hottest indie cartoonists. He’s also done a substantial amount of work with Neil Gaiman, including Sandman 50 (“Ramadan”) and the Endless Nights collection’s Eisner Award-winning short “Death in Venice”. Lately, he’s tackled adaptations of Gaiman’s prose work, and the results, books like Murder Mysteries and Coraline, have been justly praised. We caught up with Russell at this weekend’s Mid-Ohio Con (in Columbus, Ohio, not far from the artist’s home town) and asked him about his latest project—a comics adaptation of Gaiman’s eerie award-winning Japanese folk tale, The Dream Hunters…
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