Fairest, Vol. 1 (Fables)

Author: Bill Willingham

Number Of Pages: 160

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New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator Bill Willingham presents a new series starring the beautiful, deadly ladies from his hit series FABLES. Balancing horror, humor and adventure in the FABLES tradition, FAIREST explores the secret histories of Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, Snow White, Rose Red and others. The first 6-issue tale follows the misadventures of Briar Rose immediately after the events of FABLES #107(collected in FABLES VOL. 16: SUPER TEAM), in which she was stolen away by the goblin army. Following this first collection, Willingham will serve as a consultant on all story arcs and introduce new writers from other mediums to the FABLES mythos. Fan-favorite artist Phil Jimenez (WONDER WOMAN, THE INVISIBLES) returns to Vertigo to pencil the opening storyline. Award-winning cover artist Adam Hughes (WONDER WOMAN, BATGIRL) provides covers, starting with a wraparound cover on issue #1 that spotlights the lovely ladies who will star in the series. Amazon.com Review Q&A with author Bill Willingham Q. Bill, the popularity of Fables hasn’t waned since its debut in 2002. What do you think is the greatest appeal of the title? A. Bill Willingham: I think a couple of things. Fables draws on folklore, which by definition is stories that everyone owns. Every single person in the entire world owns these stories. It’s not like it’s collectively owned—if we want to do a new Snow White story, we don’t have to all come together and determine “This is what it’s going to be.” It’s individual ownership of this vast, vast library of stories. So everyone, by virtue of being “folk” in “folk lore,” is born rich, because everyone owns all of this, and can do all of this with it. So maybe the loyal readership on Fables is everyone protecting their investment, saying, “This is my stuff and it’s paying off well.” And I don’t think that’s entirely facetious. You know these people; you’ve heard these stories forever (“you” being the reader). It’s like an old friend: “Have you heard what’s been happening to Snow White, lately? I haven’t heard from her in years, what’s she up to?” I don’t trust its popularity though. I still feel like Fables is going to make it some day. I don’t count on the readers being there from issue to issue. I don’t take the reader for granted. Q. You've touched on almost every fairy tale and literary classic—from Beauty and the Beast to Little Boy Blue to most recently the Wizard of Oz. Growing up, what were some of your personal favorite tales and how has that informed your approach to writing it in this series? A. Bill Willingham: My personal and favorite tales growing up, possibly my all-time favorite fairy tale character was the Big Bad Wolf because that was the only one I was aware of early on as a kid appearing in more than one fairy tale. Big Bad Wolf went after the pigs and didn’t quite make it there. Big Bad Wolf went after Red Riding Hood, didn’t quite make it there. So, I just love the fact that just like in comics, fairy tales can show up in different stories. Which is probably why I made him into a hero in Fables. He would have made a great villain, still, but I’d use him once or twice and then I’d have to get rid of him. Because the worst thing in the world is the villain who keeps on coming back. Then it’s not really a story about the villain but about incompetent heroes. I used to love Fractured Fairytales as a kid, so most of those characters had to show up in Fables. I think I got most of them, but I'm not certain. Little Boy Blue was never meant to be an important character. He was just there, foot in the office, someone for Snow White to talk to. He kind of expanded his character in the book. Q. As mentioned previously, these characters have existed for a long, long time, and people have a certain level of love and attachment to them. What would you say is some of the most surprising feedback you've gotten? A. Bill ...

EAN: 9781401235505

Release Date: 27-11-2012

Languages: English

Item Condition: New

Binding: Paperback