“This is not at all a static tale,” says Willingham. Originally slated to end around issue 75, Willingham and principal artist Mark Buckingham have kept it going, finding further veins from those classic stories to mine for their own clever spin. “Now, these refugees have banded together in an underground community in New York City.” “All of the folklore and fairy tale characters from the stories you know so well, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf…are still alive today, living in our world, after having been chased out of their own very magical worlds by the vast armies of a wicked conqueror known only to them as The Adversary,” explains series author Bill Willingham of the initial premise. Launched in 2002, the series about fugitive figures from folklore has not only garnered a legion of fans as it nears 100 issues, it’s spun off an ongoing series ( Jack of Fables), a graphic novel ( 1001 Nights of Snowfall), a novel ( Peter & Max), and two affiliated miniseries ( Cinderella, The Literals). Perhaps no comic book series in the 2000s achieved the consistent quality and creativity of DC/Vertigo’s Fables.
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