The Sandman: Fables & Reflections
| The Sandman: Fables & Reflections | |
|---|---|
Cover of The Sandman: Fables and Reflections (1994), trade paperback collected edition, art by Dave McKean | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | The Sandman August–October 1991 June–August 1992 June 1993 Sandman Special 1991 Vertigo Preview 1992 |
| Genre | |
| Title(s) | The Sandman #29–31, 38–40, 50 Sandman Special #1 Vertigo Preview |
| Main character(s) | Dream |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-56389-105-0 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Neil Gaiman |
| Artist(s) | Dave McKean Stan Woch Dick Giordano Bryan Talbot Shawn McManus Duncan Eagleson Vince Locke John Watkiss Jill Thompson P. Craig Russell Mark Buckingham Kent Williams |
| Penciller(s) | Stan Woch Bryan Talbot Shawn McManus Duncan Eagleson John Watkiss Jill Thompson P. Craig Russell Kent Williams |
| Inker(s) | Dick Giordano Stan Woch Shawn McManus Vince Locke John Watkiss P. Craig Russell Mark Buckingham Kent Williams |
| Letterer(s) | Todd Klein |
| Colorist(s) | Daniel Vozzo Digital Chameleon Sherilyn Valkenburgh |
| Editor(s) | Karen Berger Alisa Kwitney Shelly Roeberg |
Fables & Reflections (1993) is an American fantasy comic book, the sixth collection of issues in the DC Comics series The Sandman. It was written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Bryan Talbot, Stan Woch, P. Craig Russell, Shawn McManus, John Watkiss, Jill Thompson, Duncan Eagleson, Kent Williams, Mark Buckingham, Vince Locke and Dick Giordano, coloured by Daniel Vozzo and Lovern Kindzierski/Digital Chameleon, and lettered by Todd Klein. The introduction is written by Gene Wolfe.
The issues in the collection first appeared in 1991, 1992 and 1993. The collection first appeared in paperback and hardback in 1993.
Like the third collection (Dream Country), and the eighth (Worlds' End), Fables and Reflections is a collection of short one-issue stories. Most of the stories do not contribute directly to the overall story arc of the series on a textual level but rather comment on its themes and provide subtext. The most conspicuous exception is the story "Orpheus", originally printed as the one-shot Sandman Special, which is central to the main story of the series.
It is preceded by A Game of You and followed by Brief Lives.