It Was a Dark and Silly Night... Kids throw the greatest party they ever had. . . in a graveyard! NEIL GAIMAN is the creator/writer of the epic DC Comics fantasy series The Sandman and has won every major award in the field. Recently, Gaiman won the Hugo Award for his novel American Gods, and his children's novel, Coraline, illustrated by Dave McKean, was a New York Times bestseller. GAHAN WILSON sold his first cartoon to a pulp magazine, Amazing Stories, in the early 50s. Since then his cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Playboy, among others. He has written and illustrated many childrenÕs books as well as produced over twenty anthologies of his cartoons.