
They submitted story and art treatments to DC Comics, and the result was Black Orchid (1988), a miniseries that helped establish the atmosphere for the DC renaissance of the late 1980s. The work established them as rising stars in the comic world, and soon the two were noticed by publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. It was about that time that he met artist Dave McKean, and the two collaborated on the graphic novel Violent Cases (1987). While the subject matter was certainly not indicative of his later work, its success was, and the first printing sold out in a matter of days. Upon graduating, he worked as a freelance journalist before earning his first author credit for a paperback biography of the pop music group Duran Duran in 1984. Gaiman grew up in Sussex and attended Whitgift School in Croydon. Neil Gaiman, in full Neil Richard Gaiman, (born November 10, 1960, Portchester, Hampshire, England), British writer who earned critical praise and popular success with richly imagined fantasy tales that frequently featured a darkly humorous tone.

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