turned into an opera by Claude Debussy, and "Salome" adapted from Oscar Wilde's play of the same name which was the basis for Richard Strauss's opera. Opera would continue to resurface in Russell's work, including a four-part adaptation of The Magic Flute, taken from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera. Other work Russell inked Mike Mignola's pencils on the Phantom Stranger limited series in 1987. Russell illustrated issue #50 of writer Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman. The story was titled "Ramadan" and was later included in the collection The Sandman: Fables and Reflections. Russell drew the first story in Gaiman's later Sandman graphic novel, Endless Nights, and adapted both Gaiman's short story "Murder Mysteries" and his children's book Coraline into comics form. He has adapted another Gaiman Sandman work, Sandman: The Dream Hunters, and a Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian story, "The Jewels of Gwahlur". Russell got involved with a collaborative art project with the Web-based artist group Kaleidospace in 1994. Beginning in 2000, Dark Horse Comics published Russell's adaptation of Richard Wagner's operatic cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung as 14 comic books; in 2001, the series won two Eisner Awards: for Best Finite Series/Limited Series, and for Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team. The series since been published as a single-volume hardcover book. He has adapted the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde into comic-book albums from NBM Publishing. In December 2007, Desperado published The Art of P. Craig Russell, a 256-page retrospective of Russell's career. It was nominated for the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book. A documentary feature about the artist, Night Music: The Art of P. Craig Russell, premiered at the 2008 Mid-Ohio Con in Columbus, Ohio. In November 2015, Wayne Alan Harold Productions published the P. Craig Russell Sketchbook Archives, a 250-page hardcover art book featuring the best of Russell's personal sketchbooks. The same publisher is currently creating an Artist's Edition-type line of 12" x 17" hardcovers that reproduce Russell's original art at full-size,." Awards and nominations 1985: Best Finite Series Kirby Award for Night Music (Nominated) 1986: Best Finite Series Kirby Award for Night Music #4–5, "Pelleas and Melisande" (Nominated) 1986: Best Artist Kirby Award for Night Music #4–5, "Pelleas and Melisande" (Nominated) 1987: Best Single Issue Kirby Award for Night Music #6, "Salome" (Nominated) 1993: Best Penciller/Inker,Color Publication Eisner Award for Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde; Robin 3000; Legends of the Dark