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Fables is a comic book series created by writer Bill Willingham in 2002. As of July 2011, Fables produced 107 monthly issues.

Plot[]

Fables focuses on reinvented fairy tale characters, such as Bigby Wolf, previously the "big bad wolf" in Little Red Riding Hood, who had reformed and become able to take on a human form. Snow White is also a prominent character, but Fables has Snow White presented as a divorcee after her divorce with Prince Charming. Sometimes Fables takes on a murder mystery, sometimes a caper and sometimes a conspiracy thriller.

Collected Graphic Novels[]

  1. Legends in Exile
  2. Animal Farm
  3. Storybook Love
  4. March of the Wooden Soldiers
  5. The Mean Seasons
  6. Homelands
  7. Arabian Nights (and Days)
  8. Wolves
  9. Sons of Empire
  10. The Good Prince
  11. War and Pieces
  12. The Dark Ages
  13. The Great Fables Crossover
  14. Witches
  15. Rose Red
  16. Super Team

Spinoffs[]

  • Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love is a spinoff mini-series of Fables asking the question of whatever happened to Cinderella's fairy godmother.
  • Cinderella: Fables are Forever is a sequel to Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love and follow's Cindy on another one of her adventures

Characters[]

This is a complete list of Fables characters:

New York Fables[]

Thirteenth Floor Fables[]

The Farm[]

Villains[]

Literals and Part-Literals[]

  • Jack Horner
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Mr. Revise
  • The Page Sisters
  • Jack Two
  • Bookburner

The Genres[]

  • Western
  • Blockbuster
  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Romance
  • Science-Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Super-hero
  • Literature
  • Noir
  • Comedy
  • War

The Homelands[]

  • Colonel Bearskin
  • The Valiant Little Tailor
  • Red Cross Knight
  • Herman Von Starkenfaust
  • Britomart
  • Robin O'The Woods
  • The Merry Men
  • Tam Lin
  • The King of Mandagao
  • King Pellinore
  • The North Wind

Arabian Fables[]

Inmates at the Golden Boughs Retirement Village[]

Other Characters[]

Notes and References[]

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