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When a savage creature known only as the Adversary
conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales,
all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced
into exile.
Disguised among the normal citizens of
modern-day New York, these magical characters created
their own secret society-within an exclusive luxury
apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side-called
Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose
Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Bigby,
Fabletown's sheriff, and a reformed and pardoned Big Bad
Wolf, to determine if the culprit is Bluebeard, Rose's
ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current
live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber.
This
Deluxe Edition collects 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
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