Bill Willingham, Author . Vertigo/DC Comics $14.95 (190p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0256-9
One of the stories in this new collection is appropriately titled "Into the Woods." Like Stephen Sondheim's musical, Willingham's series presents figures from childhood fairytales contending with the problems of adult life. Snow...
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Bill Willingham, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, Matthew Sturges and Shawn McManus. DC/Vertigo, $14.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3550-5
This spinoff series of Fables, Willingham’s hit fairy tales in the modern world saga, begins with an imaginative reinterpretation of the Sleeping Beauty story mixed with a second chance for one of the series’ longest-running foes. This volume puts...
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Bill Willingham, Jim Fern, and Craig Hamilton. DC/Vertigo, $22.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2479-0
Bigby Wolf, the seventh son of the North Wind, is the original big bad werewolf, now reformed and somewhat civilized despite a mile-wide mean streak. While wandering through the Great Plains in search of a possible location for Fabletown, a new home
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Bill Willingham, illus. by Mark Buckingham. Tor/Starscape, $15.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2792-5
Eisner-winning comics creator Willingham (the Fables series) makes his middle-grade debut with an action-packed and often touching novel (published in a different form by Willingham's Clockwork Storybook collective in 2001) that explores the nature...
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Bill Willingham, Author, Mark Buckingham, Illustrator, David Hahn, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $14.99 (190p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0500-3
This clever, enjoyable series written by Willingham, has a rather ingenious premise: what if all the characters of fairy tales lived, loved, schemed, and fought in a modern-day city of their own? This installment contains two fun story arcs. One, a...
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Bill Willingham, Author, Shawn McManus, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $12.99 (95p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0497-6
Thessaly, a cutie-pie with big glasses and a wicked left hook, first appeared in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics. Here, she stars in her own adventure, complete with love interest and unbeatable foe. Our heroine is the last of the Thessalian...
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Bill Willingham, Author, Lan Medina, Illustrator, Steve Leialoha, Illustrator , illus. by Lan Media, Steve Leialoha and Craig Hamilton. Vertigo/DC Comics $9.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-56389-942-3
This elaborate fantasy series begins as a whodunit, but quickly unfurls into a much larger story about Fabletown, a place where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers. Years ago, fables and fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk and...
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Bill Willingham, Author, Matthew Sturges, Author, Mark Buckingham, Illustrator and various. DC/Vertigo $17.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2572-8
The appeal of Fables
has always been the reimagining of fairy tale characters as if they were as messy and screwed up as real people; the characters are divorcées, drunks, womanizers, and overall flawed beings. In this crossover of all the...
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Bill Willingham, Author, Matthew Sturges, Author, Andrew Pepoy, Illustrator . DC Comics/Vertigo $14.99 (118p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1222-3
Willingham first created a contemporary world inhabited by fairy tale characters in his series, Fables
. He continues that success with Sturges, who co-writes this recent spinoff. A new story line further develops Jack Horner's escapades in...
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Bill Willingham et al. . DC/Vertigo, $22.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3900-8
The ever-expanding universe of Willingham’s Fables gets a juicy new addition with this standalone offshoot graphic novel from the Fairest series. It’s a mystery narrated by the Magic Mirror, who—along with the fey, fierce little Barleycorn girls and
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Bill Willingham, Author, Steve Leialoha, Illustrator , illus. by Steve Leialoha. DC/Vertigo $22.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1573-6
Understanding Willingham's new novel (the first from comics house Vertigo) doesn't require knowledge of the comic it's based upon, but it certainly helps; Fables
follows a population of fairy tale characters seeking shelter in our...
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Bill Willingham, Author, Esao Andrews, Illustrator, Brian Bolland, Illustrator and various. DC/Vertigo $19.99 (140p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0367-2
Probably the smartest mainstream comic going, Fables
usually concentrates on the contemporary activities of characters from children's stories who now are living as secret refugees in New York. This collection gives glimpses of their individual
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Bill Willingham, Author, Rick Mays, Illustrator, Francisco Rodriquez de La Fuente, Illustrator DC Comics $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0235-4
Although penned by Eisner-winning writer Willingham, this is an unremarkable, generic teen adventure. Robin is one of DC's longest-continuing characters, but he's survived as Batman's light-hearted juvenile cohort rather than as an interesting...
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Matthew Sturges, Author, Bill Willingham, Author, Luca Rossi, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $9.99 (122p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2079-2
A pirate, a poet, a bartender and a drama queen are trapped in a bar. No, that’s not a joke, that’s the classic DC horror anthology House of Mystery
, newly brought back by Vertigo. House of Mystery
has a history going back to 1951, but
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