bill willingham's fables comic book series

The series also features fantastic art by Mark Buckingham, who brings each character and the world they inhabit to life beautifully.įables is a long-running series that began in 2002. Over the course of the series each character develops beyond the backstory and stereotype. Pinocchio is a slightly bitter 400 year old stuck in the body of a 10 year old boy Prince Charming is the town cad (after having married Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty in turn) Beast is usually a human but begins to revert to a beast when he and Beauty are fighting. Each fable has a familiar backstory, based on the legends and fairytales, but often has an amusing or modernized spin. One of the main strengths of Fables is its characters. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at “the Farm” in upstate New York. Protected by wards and spells, their community exists in present-day New York City, where the human fables have grown comfortable and lead relatively normal lives.

In the 1600s, the Adversary conquered the realm of fables, forcing them all to flee and relocate first to Europe and then eventually to America, where they settled in New Amsterdam. The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore, including Snow White, Pinocchio, Red Riding Hood, Beauty and her Beast, and many others. Fables is a comic book series created by writer Bill Willingham and published by DC Comics’s Vertigo imprint.

Bill willingham's fables comic book series