question: Who is the creator of a "The Sandman" spin-off?
answer: Mike Carey
context: Title: List of Lucifer episodes
  Passage: "Lucifer" is an American fantasy police procedural dramedy television series developed by Tom Kapinos that premiered on Fox on January 25, 2016.  It features a character created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg taken from the comic book series "The Sandman", which later became the protagonist of the spin-off comic book series "Lucifer" written by Mike Carey, both published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
  Title: Comic Book Tattoo
  Passage: Comic Book Tattoo is an Eisner Award and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel made up of fifty-one stories, each based on or inspired by a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, published by Image Comics in 2008.  Rantz Hoseley, longtime friend of Amos, served as the book's editor.  Together, Hoseley and Amos gathered eighty different artists to collaborate on the book.  "Comic Book Tattoo" includes an introduction by another longtime friend of Amos, Neil Gaiman, creator of "The Sandman" series.
  Title: Lucifer (DC Comics)
  Passage: Lucifer Samael Morningstar is a DC Comics character appearing primarily as a supporting character in the comic book series "The Sandman" and as the title character of a spin-off, both published under the Vertigo imprint.
  Title: Lucifer (TV series)
  Passage: Lucifer is an American fantasy police procedural comedy-drama television series developed by Tom Kapinos that premiered on Fox on January 25, 2016.  It features a character created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg taken from the comic book series "The Sandman", who later became the protagonist of the spin-off comic book series "Lucifer" written by Mike Carey, both published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
  Title: Michael Demiurgos
  Passage: Michael Demiurgos is a fictional character in the Lucifer series by DC comics, and is a creation of Mike Carey, based on the archangel Michael.
  Title: Death: The High Cost of Living
  Passage: Death: The High Cost of Living is a comic, written by Neil Gaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham.  It is a spin-off from Gaiman's best-selling Vertigo Comics series "The Sandman", featuring the Sandman (Dream)'s elder sister, Death of the Endless.  Its premise is that Death takes human form once a century, to remain grounded and in touch with humanity, an idea touched upon in several other media, for example in the 1934 film "Death Takes a Holiday" and in the Terry Pratchett novel "Reaper Man".
  Title: Diagnosis: Murder
  Passage: Diagnosis: Murder is an American comedy/mystery/medical crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son Steve, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry.  The series began as a spin-off of "Jake and the Fatman" (Dr. Mark Sloan made his first appearance in episode 4.19 "It Never Entered My Mind"), became a series of three TV movies, and then a weekly television series that debuted on CBS on October 29, 1993.  Joyce Burditt wrote the episode in "Jake and the Fatman" and is listed here as the creator of the spin off series.
  Title: Osiris (DC Comics)
  Passage: Osiris is the name of three fictional characters published by DC Comics.  The first appeared in 1994 as a foil for the Justice League.  The second appeared under the Vertigo Comics imprint in a spin-off of "The Sandman" in 2002.  The third debuted in the pages of "Teen Titans" and "52" in 2006.
  Title: Vince Gilligan
  Passage: George Vincent Gilligan, Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American writer, producer, and director.  He is known for his television work, specifically as creator, head writer, executive producer, and a director of "Breaking Bad" and its spin-off "Better Call Saul".  He was a writer and producer for "The X-Files" and was the co-creator of its spin-off "The Lone Gunmen".
  Title: Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
  Passage: Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold is a 1996 comic book mini-series published by Vertigo, written by Alisa Kwitney and with art by Kent Williams, Michael Zulli, Scott Hampton and Rebecca Guay.  A spin-off from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, it features Destiny of the Endless, a character available for use by other writers because, unlike the other Endless, Gaiman had not created him.
citations: Lucifer (DC Comics) Michael Demiurgos