Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos
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This tattoo of Dream from The Sandman is on Michael.
Everytime I hear “Tear In Your Hand” by Tori Amos that got a reference to Neil Gaiman:
“..if you need me, me and neil’ll be hangin’ out with the DREAM KING.
Neil says hi by the way”
I feel good to have Sandman on my body and in a way in my soul.
This is Jocke Berg, singer in the Swedish band Kent, with a tattoo of the Key to Hell from Season of Mists, volume 4 of The Sandman.
This tattoo of The Key to Hell was submitted by Favve.
I got this tattoo about two weeks ago. I started reading The Sandman like a year ago or so and I became a huge fan of Gaiman’s, I read every book that I can get. When I read Season of Mists , I thought about the Key to Hell as the perfect piece of art to be inked, it was perfect, with a deep meaning, related with Neil Gaiman and with a great design!
I got it to deal with changes, I’ve always been some sort of status quo person and changes in every sense affect me a lot. This tattoo have help me through my very own seasons of mists.
This tattoo was submitted by Preeti and is from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Volume 9: The Kindly Ones.
Gaiman’s a favorite of mine, and the quote just really struck me, I’ve got a bit of wanderlust and want desperately to see everything and live everywhere. Not to mention, Lucifer says it to Delirium and barring Dream, they’re my two favorite characters.
I’ve been working on a feature film in the middle of nowhere (I do stills), and of course the day I head into the land of no internet access, Neil Gaiman links to my site on his Twitter!
I am declaring the next 5 days “Neil Gaiman Week”. I say 5 days because I am headed back to the land of no internet access in 20 minutes and I don’t have time for a full week’s worth of posts.
This one comes from Ula:
Here is a picture of my tattoo of Dream from Neil Gaiman’s “Fables and Reflections.” This particular design is from the the story “Ramadan.”
