FablesVol 1: Legends in Exile
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha and Craig Hamilton
2003
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FablesVol 2: Animal Farm
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha
2003
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FablesVol 3: Storybook Love
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Bryan Talbot, Lan Medina, Mark Buckingham, Linda Medley, Steve Leialoha and Craig Hamilton
2004
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FablesVol 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham & Steve Leialoha, Craig Hamilton & P. Craig Russell
2004
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FablesVol 5: The Mean Seasons
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Tony Akins and Jimmy Palmiotti
2005
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FablesVol 6: Homelands
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, David Hahn, Lan Medina and Dan Green
2006
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FablesVol 7: Arabian Nights (and Days)
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Jim Fern, Jimmy Palmiotti and Andrew Pepoy
2006
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FablesVol 8: Wolves
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Shawn McManus and Andrew Pepoy
2006
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FablesVol 9: Sons of Empire
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha
2007
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FablesVol 10: The Good Prince
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha and Aaron Alexovich
2008
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FablesVol 11: War and Pieces
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham
2008
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FablesVol 12: The Dark Ages
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Mike Allred, Andrew Pepoy, Peter Gross and David Hahn
2009
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FablesVol 13: The Great Fables Crossover
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Russ Braun, Mark Buckingham, Jose Marzan Jr. and Andrew Pepoy
2010
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FablesVol 14: Witches
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Jim Fern, Craig Hamilton and David Lapham
2011
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FablesVol 15: Rose Red
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Andrew Pepoy, Steve Leialoha, Chrissie Zullo, Joao Ruas, Adam Huges, J.H. Williams III and Dave Johnson
2011
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Vol 16: Super Team
Written By Bill Willingham
Art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Eric Shanower and Terry Moore
2011
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Just so we're clear: There's a comment on this article that perfectly sums up my feelings about this series: Fables is comics for people who either a) love James Jean covers and tolerate the garbage in between them b) go to ren-faires and LARPS, c) hate comics or d) hate comics. It’s for people who really think Neil Gaiman is great but he gets a little too out there some times. Oh that Neil Gaiman, he’s hard to pin down with those crazy new ideas."
Fables is an on-going series created in 2002 for DC's Vertigo label. Based around the trials and tribulations of various characters from fairy tales and folklore – who all refer to themselves as "Fables" – who live in present day New York in a clandestine community known as 'Fabletown.' It is very popular amongst a wide range of different people but I have no idea why. Characterisation is pretty much - oh you know that you thought that person was one thing? Well... turns out they're the opposite! The big bad wolf is actually a mis-understood good guy? And Prince Charming is a loverat? Please stop - my mind is blown. Plus - it's boring. Dull. And predictable. Apart from when stuff happens for no explicable reason (other than the fact that it serves the plot) and then it's just silly (and not 'good silly' - 'bad silly'). My only hope reading each succesive volume was that maybe just one character could die in some sort of horrible twisted fashion? But no. They all live on forever and ever and ever being completely milquetoast... (Bluuurgh). Oh - and the art is rubbish too. AVOID.
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Links: AV Club Interview with Bill Willingham.
Further reading: The Sandman, Jack of Fables, The Unwritten, Lucifer, Hellboy, Stardust.
Profiles: J. H. Williams III.
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