Fables
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|---|---|
| Name: | Fables |
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| Creator: | Bill Willingham |
| Date(s): | July 2002 – July 2015 (original comic) Dec 2014 - Nov 2015 (derivative comic) |
| Medium: | comic books, video game |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| External Links: | at Wikipedia (original comic) at Wikipedia (game) at Wikipedia (derivative comic) |
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Fables is a Vertigo comic book series that follows the the inhabitants of Fabletown, "a clandestine community within 1980s New York City consisting of various fantastical characters from fairy tales and folklore"[1] who are divided into groups of those with a human appearance who live in the center and those with an animalistic appearance who are on the farms. Snow White is the deputy mayor while the Big Bad Wolf—a shifter called Bigby Wolf—is the sheriff.
A prequel game was made in mid-2013, titled The Wolf Among Us, a comic derived from the game was also created as well as a continuation of the game. The Wolf Among Us has a cult following fandom.
Creator Bill Willingham released "the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters" into the public domain in 2023 in response to an extended contractural dispute with DC.[2][3]
Characters
Relationship
The most common pairing in transformative works is Bigby/Snow White which is canon in Fables universe. A small number of slash works can also be found focused on Bigby/The Woodsman which appeared shortly after the game's release.
Fandom
The Fables fandom is small, diverse and dispersed with few communities and websites still active, but they are feral. The fan reaction to the discontinuation of the Vertigo label (where the comics were published) and the launch of the video game and the derivative comic only shows this loyalty and how small the fandom there still lives. Due to the simple title, fanfic archives often don't have proper tags.[citation needed]
Reviews
The series is the brain-child of Bill Willingham, whose writing is brisk, funny, and creative. He has twists you don't expect, like the Big Bad Wolf is a shapeshifter who here poses as Bigby, the sheriff.[citation needed]
also I know it’s been two years but I’m still deep in mourning for DC shutting down the Vertigo imprint because it was a home for a lot of really creative and unique titles and it’s deeply tragic that the Vertigo corner of DC’s publishing slate been diminished to an occasional Swamp Thing mini, a couple of Black Label Sandman universe minis, and a Fables mini every so often[4]
Example Fanworks
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Fanfiction
Fan Art
Cosplay
Meta
- Bitch. To a Wolf, it's a Good Thing. by dotiscute, a Bigby/Snow essay for ship_manifesto (Dec 2004)
Archives, Communities & Resources
- Fables (Willingham) - All Media Types tag at AO3
- The Wolf Among Us tag at AO3
- Comics > Fables at FanFiction.Net
- Fabletown.com, the official forum (defunct)
- into the woods, a Fables fansite (defunct)
- Once Upon a Time, a Fables fansite (defunct)
- Fabletown Virtual Library, a Fables fansite (defunct)
- fables_comic, a Fables community on LiveJournal
- snow_n_bigby, a Bigby/Snow community on LiveJournal (defunct)
References
- ^ Wikipedia:The Wolf Among Us, accessed 17 February 2023.
- ^ Matt Schimkowitz, "He couldn’t afford to sue DC Comics, so Bill Willingham put Fables in the public domain", The A.V. Club, 14 September 2023
- ^ Adele Ankers-Range, "Fables Creator Releases Hit Comic Book Series Into the Public Domain After Dispute With DC", IGN, 15 September 2023
- ^ fantastic-nonsense (2022-10-02). "also I know it's been two years but I'm still deep in mourning". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 2023-02-17.