Bill outlined some of the stories he had in mind, and they all sounded great, but what I liked best was the broad outline of the concept, allowing for a wide range of stories and including all sorts of familiar characters, but each with some sort of modern-day twist. I was very impressed with the concept: characters from myth, fable and fairy tale hiding out in present-day New York City and upstate New York, after having been run out of their original story settings by an unknown enemy. Again, humor was the overall theme.Īlso in 2001, Shelly Bond sent me a proposal by Bill for a new monthly series he had pitched to DC titled FABLES. In 2001 I lettered another Willingham Sandman-related project, SANDMAN PRESENTS: EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT DREAMS, a series of vignettes written by Bill for a variety of fine artists. The art by Mark Buckingham was as fun and as delightful as the James-Bond-with-humor storyline. Later that year I lettered an extended-length Dreaming spinoff, SANDMAN PRESENTS MERVYN PUMPKINHEAD, AGENT OF D.R.E.A.M., featuring one of my favorite Sandman characters. "The Further Adventures of Danny Nod, Heroic Library Assistant" turned out to be my favorite issue of the long-running series, as the title character trudges stoically through a variety of imaginary worlds and stories from classic literature in search of missing library books. I knew his work as an artist on some DC projects in the 1980s, but it wasn't until DC editor Shelly Bond, who had long spoken highly of Bill to me, asked him to script issue 55 of THE DREAMING in the year 2000 that I was able to experience the delights of Bill's writing. I have to admit I didn't know the writing of Bill Willingham until I started working with him.
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