Fables Vol 11 War And Pieces

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401236137

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Fables Vol. 11: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham Pdf

WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. The final battle between the free Fables of the mundane world and the Empire occupying their former Homelands is about to begin, and the scrappy storybook heroes have already managed to even the odds considerably. With his previously unstoppable wooden soldiers neutralized, the Adversary is about to get his first taste of high technology in the form of steel-jacketed bullets and laser-guided bombs. But the ruler who conquered a hundred different worlds didn-t do it by fighting clean-and he-s still got a surprise or two left to spring on the residents of Fabletown. Collects issues #70-75 in Bill Willingham-s Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : UVA:X004745840

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Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham Pdf

Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, and others who live side-by-side with humans in New York. Their latest case: Who killed Rose Red?

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401239572

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Fables Vol. 16: Super Team by Bill Willingham Pdf

Now why oh why in this mixed-up world would we saddle an important series that has never had anything to do with Super Heroes with a title like -Super Team-? And why has that snotty little Pinocchio suddenly got it into his head that he needs to design tight-fitting costumes for a carefully selected team of Fables? In fact, why was the little brat caught looking over his own comic-book collection, mumbling things like, -We can call him Werewolf Man, and he can be The Golden Knight, and she can be called The Green Witch?- This volume also includes a special story illustrated by Terry Moore (Echo, Strangers in Paradise)!

Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1853261289

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Aesop's Fables by Aesop Pdf

A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401236038

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Fables Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham Pdf

WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm-and a conspiracy to free them from the shackles of their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war that could wrest control of the Fables community away from Snow White. Starring Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Plus, a sketchbook section featuring art by Willingham, Buckingham and Jean. Collects FABLES #6-10, the second story arc of the fan-favorite, critically acclaimed VERTIGO series.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779511843

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Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book One by Bill Willingham Pdf

For the first time ever, Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series FABLES is presented in a deluxe hardcover edition collecting issues #1-10. 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 have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. When Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff, the reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to find the killer. Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables' upstate farm where non-human inhabitants are preaching revolution – and threatening Fabletown's carefully nurtured secrecy.

Author : Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814339282

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Fairy Tales Transformed? by Cristina Bacchilega Pdf

Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina Bacchilega traces what she terms a "fairy-tale web" of multivocal influences in modern adaptations, asking how tales have been changed by and for the early twenty-first century. Dealing mainly with literary and cinematic adaptations for adults and young adults, Bacchilega investigates the linked and yet divergent social projects these fairy tales imagine, their participation and competition in multiple genre and media systems, and their relation to a politics of wonder that contests a naturalized hierarchy of Euro-American literary fairy tale over folktale and other wonder genres. Bacchilega begins by assessing changes in contemporary understandings and adaptations of the Euro-American fairy tale since the 1970s, and introduces the fairy-tale web as a network of reading and writing practices with a long history shaped by forces of gender politics, capitalism, and colonialism. In the chapters that follow, Bacchilega considers a range of texts, from high profile films like Disney's Enchanted, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard to literary adaptations like Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch, and Bill Willingham's popular comics series, Fables. She looks at the fairy-tale web from a number of approaches, including adaptation as "activist response" in Chapter 1, as remediation within convergence culture in Chapter 2, and a space of genre mixing in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 connects adaptation with issues of translation and stereotyping to discuss mainstream North American adaptations of The Arabian Nights as "media text" in post-9/11 globalized culture. Bacchilega's epilogue invites scholars to intensify their attention to multimedia fairy-tale traditions and the relationship of folk and fairy tales with other cultures' wonder genres. Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401260392

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Fables Vol. 22: Farewell by Bill Willingham Pdf

The New York Times Best-selling Series and Winner of 14 Eisner Awards! Completing more than thirteen years of critically-acclaimed storytelling, FABLES #150 is here! Doubling as the final volume of the series, creator Bill Willingham, artist Mark Buckingham and a host of the industry's finest artists deliver the end to this legendary Vertigo series that sees the final fates of beloved characters Bigby Wolf, Snow White, Rose Red, Boy Blue, Pinocchio and countless others. Ready or not, ever after is here.

Author : Neta Gordon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786499854

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A Tour of Fabletown by Neta Gordon Pdf

In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham's Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures--Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella and the ubiquitous Prince Charming, among many others--as they made new lives for themselves in modern-day New York City, having fled their storied homeworlds following an invasion. After 150 issues and many awards, Fables concluded its run in July 2015. This study, the first about the sprawling, complex series, discusses such topics as Fables' status as a contemporary adaptation of folk and fairy tales; its use of conventional genres like sword-and-sorcery, crime and romance; its portrayal of social and political relationships; and its self-referential moments. Providing a detailed introduction to the themes and ideas in the series, the author explores how Fables portrays redemption, the function of community, and how our hopes and fears influence our ideal of "happily ever after."

Author : Claudia Schwabe
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814341971

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Craving Supernatural Creatures by Claudia Schwabe Pdf

Analyzes the portrayal of German fairy-tale figures in contemporary North American media adaptations.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1401224806

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Fables by Bill Willingham Pdf

"Suggested for mature readers"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Michael Pawuk,David S. Serchay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216091615

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Graphic Novels by Michael Pawuk,David S. Serchay Pdf

Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles—some of which are very popular and well-known to the enthusiastic readers of books in this genre. How do you determine which graphic novels to purchase, and which to recommend to teen and adult readers? This updated guide is intended to help you start, update, or maintain a graphic novel collection and advise readers about the genre. Containing mostly new information as compared to the previous edition, the book covers iconic super-hero comics and other classic and contemporary crime fighter-based comics; action and adventure comics, including prehistoric, heroic, explorer, and Far East adventure as well as Western adventure; science fiction titles that encompass space opera/fantasy, aliens, post-apocalyptic themes, and comics with storylines revolving around computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. There are also chapters dedicated to fantasy titles; horror titles, such as comics about vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, and the occult; crime and mystery titles regarding detectives, police officers, junior sleuths, and true crime; comics on contemporary life, covering romance, coming-of-age stories, sports, and social and political issues; humorous titles; and various nonfiction graphic novels.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822036342525

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN65XD

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Fables by Jean de La Fontaine Pdf

Author : Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Art
ISBN : PRNC:32101064229147

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Manual of Classical Literature by Johann Joachim Eschenburg Pdf