Surrealism was born as a movement based on psychoanalytic theories arising from Sigmund Freud's theories. From Andre Breton's Surrealist Manifesto, the artistic movement developed not only in painting, but also in film and other arts. In comics, this art appears, above all, in the visual aesthetics of comics by Neil Gaiman, Dave Mckean, Mike Dringenberg and Malcom Jones III. Surrealism brings up the unconscious and its oneiric manifestations that involve the theme of madness, the irrational and the grotesque. In the comic strip Sandman, insane madness under the influence of surrealist paintings is mixed with visual terror. In this course completion work, we analyze the comic entitled "Waiting for the end of the world", by Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean, published in 1991 by DC Comics. The central objective is, based on surrealist aesthetics, an interpretative reading of the relations between sequential art, dream and terror.
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