AND THE FABLES OBSESSION CONTINUES.
If you have read my previous posts, you would have known of my obsession for Fables that started last month. And you should know by now that the word obsessed is not an understatement but an overused word in my blog that rightfully defines my state of being with the said comic.
Fables is a comic book series created by Bill Willingham. What really grabbed my attention is the intermingling of the classic characters in stories that I grew up listening, reading and watching. Bill Willingham created an alternate reality of the childhood characters I knew and have learned to love. Instead of making the protagonists of the childhood stories one-dimensional, such that they act on what is morally good, he made them more human.
What I found amazing in the “transformation” of the characters, from teaching good moral to children to making the characters magical creatures with a predisposed condition of being human, is that the characters are not only more believable but their deeds and thinking made more sense. I grew up a Disney kid. I knew Snow White as the fairest maiden in the land, who loves to sing (especially when singing to call for help from all the woodland creatures for her daily laundry). In the series, Snow White mutters a few curses here and there, had been divorced and uses weapons in fights, if there need be.
And I cannot deny that the other thing that made me love reading Fables is the artwork. James Jean for the cover art. Enough said to make me grab the comic book series from the shelves.
In short, I highly recommend Fables to anyone, though with the exception of little children, who are yet to be brain washed into being morally good as it is the way to be human.
Reading for more magic in my life,
Valerie
P.S. Deluxe Edition Book One contains the first two trade paperbacks of the series, issues 1-10, and Bill Willingham’s prose story from Vol. 1, as well as character sketches.
AWARDS:
YALSA: 2004 annual recommended list of Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
·Willingham, Bill. Animal Farm (Fables series). DC Comics: Vertigo.
·Willingham, Bill. Legends in Exile (Fables series). DC Comics: Vertigo.
YALSA: 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
·Willingham, Bill, Todd Klein, and others. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall. 2006. DC Comics/ Vertigo
As of 2008, Fables has won twelve Eisner Awards.
·Best New Series in 2003
·Best Serialized Story in 2003, 2005 and 2006 (Legends In Exile, March of the Wooden Soldiers and Homelands)
·Best Anthology in 2007 (Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall)
·Best Short Story in 2007 (A Frog’s Eye View, by Bill Willingham and James Jean, in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall)
Hugo Award Nomination 2009:
·Fables: War and Pieces was nominated for the first Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story
Here is what’s hanging inside my short-vacation-trip bag:
- Prang watercolor
- Burt’s Bees lip balm - It feels so cool on my lips!
- MAC lipstick (Amplified Chatterbox)
- My little black book journal - I never leave the house without this.
- Random bracelets
- Muji watercolor pencils - I can never have too much watercolor stuff. :D
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
If I were a Fables character
I will be a half girl and a half rabbit with ultra fast gnawing ability and hyper hopping speed :3 And this would be my portrait if I had brown, long, beautiful wavy hair.
Yes, now I am on my third consecutive post on Fables. I think it would not be presumptuous of me to assume that you think I am an irritating obsessed Fables reader. To make me look more like an unhealthy addict, I went to my favorite book store the other day to place an order for the fourth book of the Deluxe Edition and to buy another Fables comic. Unstoppable urges!
To all those who wonder why I write highly of this comic, Fables is a realization of my childhood’s fantasy; there is magic and there is such thing as happily ever after on Earth. (I just realized that I was a cheesy kid.) Now at 22, I could not care less for happily ever after. But then the whimsical Fables series made me remember the happy and magical stories that I have loved while growing up. After reading a couple of pages of the comic, I knew I will be reading this story until every Fables character has rightfully reached their happy ending. And what is more striking was how Bill Willingham made my favorite characters more interesting by making them more human.
If I were a half rabbit and half girl living on Earth, I would gladly rock those ears like no rabbit has ever done.
Hopped up on Fables,
Valerie
My search for Fables Deluxe Edition Book Four fails today.
Fables Addiction
Not only do these books have very beautiful front book covers,
they are also bringing sexy back. Yes, I know. Corny much!
This ongoing comic book series, which started on 2002, is created by Bill Wllingham. It is about all the characters you can think of in your favorite old nursery rhymes, fairy tales and of course fables who left their homeland to escape the “Adversary.” And of all places on Earth, they built Fabletown, the magical creature’s community, in what is now New York City. Even one of the three little pigs comes and goes the Big Apple!
More photos of the pretty book covers that generally made me pick them up in the store. I am guilty of basing my book buying decisions 70% on the book cover. Yes, I am one of those judge a book by its cover characters. But please note, the story is way more interesting. Trust me. If you do not, the Fables comic book series has a lot of awards to back it up.
Deluxe Edition Book One teaser: Living among the normal citizens of New York, magical creatures from another land have created a secret society in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In Fabletown, Rose Red, who is Snow White’s younger sister is murdered and it is up to the Big Bad Wolf to solve the crime.
Deluxe Edition Book Two teaser: Bigby, the Big Bad Wolf, is not only the huff and puff tough member of the dog family. Read the book and you will know not only his story and his romantic side; also, you will know why Little Boy Blue, Snow White’s deputy, only plays the blues in his trumpet.
Deluxe Edition Book Three teaser: Prince Charming, who is Snow White and other Disney Princesses’ ex-husband, wants to be the mayor of Fabletown and, he is campaigning against the current mayor King Cole. And Little Red Riding Hood suddenly shows up and faces her old nemesis, the Big Bad Wolf, and her old lover, Little Boy Blue.
Isn’t it interesting how all of the famous and loved magical characters are part of one story? I have read somewhere that Fables is somehow similar to the Once Upon A Time television series. I have not watched an episode of the show. But if it really is, it must be a good show!
I am currently obsessed with Fables just as my dad is hyped up on the Magnum ice cream. I looked up the publication date of the Fables Deluxe Edition Book Four in Amazon. It says February 21, 2012. I just have to ask because I need to know! (Please imagine this being said in an overly dramatic manner) Is the fourth installation of the Deluxe edition of Fables by Bill Willingham already available in the Philippines? National Bookstore? Avalon.ph? Powerbooks? Fullybooked?
