Sandman & the Endless by David Lee

SANDMAN & THE ENDLESS

By David Lee

Blue and Black graphite on illustration board

11 x 17 in.

Not For Sale


Well-packed from Trama Studio in Brazil (and taking only eleven days in transit), SANDMAN & THE ENDLESS by David Lee is a piece I found on eBay last year. The graphite is dark enough that this almost looks inked in photos, but the naked eye reveals a 2 or 4 B pencil over blue pencil sketch lines. This piece was drawn back in 2022 and reproduced in David's published sketchbook, but had only recently come up for sale. It's pinned on his instagram account to this day.


You don't see a lot of spec drawings of the entire Sandman family which makes any Endless clan illustration pretty special, but in addition to Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium this piece also features several characters from The Dreaming, including Cain and Abel from the Houses of Mystery and Secrets, Lucien the Librarian, Daniel Nod, and Merv Pumpkinhead.


Am I wrong or does Daniel's version of Dream looks like Trent Reznor?


The first comic art I collected was from what would become DC's Vertigo line and I've been returning to it for the past few years. It's interesting to see these characters interpreted by artists who may not have been alive when the characters first appeared - which is still a fresh memory for me. Now I know how all those first-generation Silver Age readers feel...