Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (NOOK Comics with Zoom View)

by Bill Willingham

Overview

1,001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL is both an entry point to the critically acclaimed series and an essential part of Willingham's enchanting and imaginative FABLES mythos. Traveling in Arabia as an Ambassador from the exiled FABLES community, Snow White is captured by the local sultan who wants to marry her (and then kill her). But the clever Snow attempts to charm the sultan instead by playing Scheherazade, telling him fantastic stories for a total of 1,001 nights. FABLES: 1,001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL reveals the secret histories of familiar FABLES characters through a series of compelling and visually illustrative tales.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401236236
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	06/12/2012
Series:	Fables Series
Sold by:	DC Comics
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	113,297
File size:	77 MB
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About the Author

BILL WILLINGHAM is the award-winning writer and creator of FABLES. He has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than twenty years on titles including Elementals, Coventry, PROPOSITION PLAYER and FABLES. With Matthew Sturges, Bill co-wrote the FABLES spinoff JACK OF FABLES, as well as HOUSE OF MYSTERY and JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA. His work has been nominated for many awards, including the Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz comic industry awards, plus the International Horror Guild award.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Award-winning cartoonist and writer Bill Willingham answers the burning question, "So what happens after fairy-tale characters live happily ever after?" in this installment of his graphic novel saga. Fables, a darkly enchanting -- and decidedly mature -- series, chronicles the adventures of characters from popular fables and nursery rhymes that have been forced into exile by a mysterious enemy known only as the Adversary.

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall is a prequel of sorts, taking place early on in the history of Fabletown, the clandestine community that the exiled characters (known as Fables) established in New York City in the early 17th century. In an attempt to warn the characters of the Arabian fable realms about the looming threat of the Adversary, emissary Snow White travels overseas to visit with the almighty Sultan -- only to become imprisoned by the King of the Age and sentenced to death. For the last three years, the Sultan, who is certain that all women are evil, has wed a maiden every night only to have her beheaded in the morning; and Snow White is next in line. But the clever ex-wife of Prince Charming beguiles the Sultan with 1,001 nights of fantastic folktales and stories about the Adversary's brutal conquest of the European fairy-tale realms…

Featuring artwork by some of the greatest illustrators in the field (Charles Vess, Brian Bolland, Tara McPherson, Esao Andrews, et al.), Willingham's Fables offering is utterly mesmerizing -- a visually stunning feast for the eyes as well as the imagination. Fans of fables, fairy tales, and folklore who have not yet discovered this brilliantly unique series should do so as soon as possible. Highly recommended. Paul Goat Allen

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 backstories before the armies of the brutal Adversary drove them out of Fairyland. Readers will learn, for example, what spoiled the Big Bad Wolf's disposition and what happened to the witch after Hansel and Gretel pushed her into the oven. It would be relatively easy to do clever, merely cynical readings of the fairy tales, but Willingham is after something much more interesting. Like Neil Gaiman and Tanith Lee, he's reimagining the old stories, trying to see why they have survived and also to point out the aspects they somehow neglect: it's only natural that Snow White would take revenge on the seven little rapists who abducted her, but the independent way she goes about it casts doubt on her subservient relationship to Prince Charming. Willingham reminds readers of how much they ignore in their anxiety to believe that all stories end happily ever after. Artists like Charles Vess, Mark Buckingham and Jill Thompson work up to the level of the perceptive scripts, making this a memorable, uncomfortably amusing treat. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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