5/20/2023 0 Comments Fables by Bill WillinghamLan Medina draws the opening sequence very nicely, and many other artists contribute single chapters or short stories, but it’s Buckingham’s open style that defines Fables. He begins by providing conventional pages, although often with baroque touches, but by the end of this collection he’s begun using the ornate vertical page edgings that would come to characterise the series. While the concept is enticing, it needed the application of Willingham’s creativity and page-turning plots, and the phenomenal appeal of Mark Buckingham’s decorative art. The Fables refer to themselves as such, with those who can pass for human living in an area of Manhattan called Fabletown, protected from prying human eyes with magical spells, while the assorted animals who’re unable to change their form live on an equally protected farm in New York state. Why are they here? Well, they’ve been exiled from what they refer to as the Homelands, which one by one were over-run by the mysterious Adversary. Fables is Bill Willingham’s phenomenally simple, yet brilliant idea of transferring the characters we all know from fairy tales and nursery rhymes to the real world of the early 21 st century.
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