Oh hai 🖤 Kirby Howell-Baptiste is on Instagram and she posted a nice high-res version of her #TheSandman DEATH in her iconic "PEACHY KEEN" pose

Photography: Rankin

Original #Sandman comic panel by Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Robbie Busch, Todd Klein

The post:

Src: Kirby Howell-Baptiste on Instagram

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Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death of the Endless on Sandman, who absolutely nailed the character and also looked super hot doing it. Yeah, I know she hasn't had the eye makeup thing in any episode thus far. I drew it on her anyway. Do somethin about it, whydontcha.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste

In both the comic and TV show, Death's charm is an important counterbalance to Dream's gloom. It was Howell-Baptiste's ability to incarnate that big-sister aura that made her stand out amidst hundreds of candidates to take on this iconic role.

"We saw a lot of Deaths, well into the many hundreds. But Kirby had a quality that was unique of being able to speak honestly to power," Gaiman recalls. "That honesty, and the fact that she could deliver those lines and you believe them, were what sold me on Kirby 100 percent. We had supermodels, we had all sorts of amazing people a lot more famous than Kirby auditioning. But I didn't believe they were Death, I didn't believe they were Tom's big sister that could boss him around. Then Kirby came on and it was just like, 'I love you, I believe you, and you're it.'"

Kirby Howell-Baptiste previews Death's 'nurturing, caring side' on Netflix's The Sandman

Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death. | The Sandman s01e06.

A quick Speed Paint of Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death (you know what they say... Gotta Catch ’Em All <; )

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless (I'm Wisesnail on both <: )

choosing to believe that The Sandman TV show’s version of Death is actually just young Billie until proven otherwise

dream + pigeons

'At the end, I'm there with them. I'm holding their hand and they're holding mine.'

A little fan art of Death from the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman.

I love her so much! Kirby Howell-Baptiste does such a good job of bringing her to life. I especially love when the character is surrounded by greenery, life and death go hand in hand, babyyy.

"DREAM is the cast bicycle"

Source: @Netflix_Sandman Q&A with Kirby Howell-Baptiste (DEATH) and Mason Alexander Park (DESIRE)

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Kirby Howell-Baptiste

When I was writing the comic, I wanted a Death who would be there at the end, who would turn to me and say 'You know, you really shoulda looked both ways before you crossed that street,' but would do it with kindness. You know, somebody nice to meet. There had been a lot of literary Deaths; they are scary, they are imposing, some of them are skeletal, some of them are cold. I thought, 'I wanna make a Death who's there at the end just to say hi', so that was the Death I created. It was somebody nice. And Kirby [Howell-Baptiste] pulls that off so well.

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This year's Desert Bus for Hope craft-along prize is complete! She's got a nice fancy frame because she deserves it.

My guess was a bit off — this didn't quite take 300 hours but it's not that much less! Relieved to (hopefully) be able to get it to its destination by the deadline.

Keep an eye out in a month or so to find out how you can possibly get your hands on this! More details will be put up on the Desert Bus site as we get closer to the event, which is in mid-November.

the iconic Death of the Endless pose from Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s instagram

PEACHY KEEN! I love this photo (shot by the legendary @rankinarchive) for @thesandmanofficial. For me, this has always been one of the most iconic Death panels (as an intro to her essence at least), so it was tremendously important for me to recreate this shot.