Sweet Tattoo

This should not come as a surprise.

“It’s so strange,” Gaiman said. “Time has really passed. I remember the early days of ‘Sandman,’ when I’d go to comic conventions, and everyone was male. I would get comic book store owners pumping my hand, saying, ‘Oh my god, you brought women into my store for the first time.’ It was one of the first few things that brought women into comics — they were essentially comics guys could give their girlfriends. Like a gateway drug. But then it was spreading sexually, because they’d split up, and the girls would keep the comics, and spread it to their next partner. It was a STD: Sexually Transmitted Dream.”

Hee. Awesome.

Parenthetically, I have a version of that poster. They gave it out at Comic Con.