Jill Thompson is an American comic book author and illustrator. She has contributed to The Sandman series as an illustrator for several issues.
Work[]
Jill Thompson illustrated the Sandman story arc, Brief Lives, as well as the individual Sandman issue "The Parliament of Rooks".
Thompson was also the body model for a minor character, Etain, in Brief Lives, with the apartment Etain was in based on her own real-life apartment at the time. In 2022, she voiced Etain in the audio adaptation of Brief Lives.
She has also written and illustrated several spin-off stories featuring the Sandman characters. These include the manga-style book Death: At Death's Door, set during the events of Season of Mists, and the Dead Boy Detectives, an original graphic novel based on two minor characters from Season of Mists.
Li'l Death and Li'l Morpheus[]
Thompson also created Li'l Death and Li'l Morpheus, the child-like versions of the two Endless, and are based on the classic comic characters Sugar and Spike. She first introduced the Li'l Death and Li'l Morpheus in "The Parliament of Rooks".
The two characters were so popular that they were later given their own book, "The Little Endless Storybook".
Credits[]
- The Sandman (1991-1993)
- The Parliament of Rooks in Fables and Reflections
- Brief Lives
- The Little Endless Storybook (2001)
- Death: At Death's Door (2002-2003)
- The Dead Boy Detectives (2005)
- Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook (2011)