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Fairest (Single Issues)
Series · 11 books · 2005-2014

Books in series

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Fairest #1

2012

Briar Rose, the enchanting Sleeping Beauty, was stolen away by the goblin army in FABLES #107. FAIREST follows her into adventures and misadventures, and features art by Phil Jimenez and a stunning cover by Adam Hughes!
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Fairest #2

2012

Sleeping Beauty has been awakened again by true love's kiss. But hold on! The thief Ali Baba doesn't seem a likely candidate for knowing true love from a day-old cruller. So how did this kiss work? We proudly present thrills and chills—and since the Snow Queen is involved, we do mean chills.
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Fairest #7

2012

Cigars, cigarettes and...St. George? Beauty and Beast star in their own mid-century modern detective story set in the smoky clubs and dive bars of 1940s Los Angeles.
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Fairest #10

2013

Rapunzel kicks ass when hungry ghosts and angry Yakuza storm the skyscraper. Meanwhile, Bigby and Frau Totenkinder arrive in Japan only to get captured by local Harijuku girls! "The Hidden Kingdom" part 3.
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Fairest #21

2013

"Of Mice and Men" part 1! After an assassination attempt on Snow White, Cinderella is called back into service to unravel an age-old conspiracy that dates back to that fateful midnight ball. Can Cindy uncover the plot and prevent a massacre in Fabletown?
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Fairest #22

2013

Cinderella's search for answers about the rodent/mundy hybrids takes her across the globe! How do these "mice men" tie into Cindy's past? What is their endgame? And will Cindy figure things out before disaster falls on Fabletown? All this and a shocking appearance by...oh, well that would be telling! "Of Mice and Men" part 2.
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Fairest #23

2014

Cinderella's search for answers takes her from Amsterdam to India. Who is the mysterious figure living in the Temple of the Rats, and how does his story tie into Cinderella's fateful night at the Ball so many years ago? "Of Mice and Men" part 3.
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Fairest #30

2014

A Vertigo “Defy Covers” issue! A crime has taken place that will have the whole Farm up in arms if word spreads. Will the Farm’s super sleuth duo, Clara and Wilfred, figure out who the culprit is? And how does it relate to the destruction of a beehive in André Gardens? Meanwhile, in Louisiana, we run with the fox as Reynard and Meghan, living rough, try to stay one step ahead of Uncle Bobby and Cousin Joey.
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Fairest #31

2014

The penultimate chapter of “The Clamour for Glamour” poses the question, “Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?” Will it be good enough to win the Best Garden at the Farm contest? Mary certainly hopes so, although an impressionable Little Lamb and his pals may be about to spoil it all, thanks to a little inspiration from a pile of Pinocchio’s favorite comic books. Meanwhile, an unplanned arrival brings Reynard and Meghan a new bundle of joys and woes.
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Fairest #32

2014

The big day has finally arrived, and the Lottery winners are drawn. Who has the winning tickets? More important, will they be passports to liberty and happiness, or five tickets to trouble?
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Fables #33

2005

A mysterious death at the Farm, like recent ones that have been plaguing Fabletown, mars the first birthday of Snow's offspring. Is this silent killer another attack from the Adversary—or something even more depressing?

Authors

Bill Willingham
Bill Willingham
Author · 161 books

In the late 1970s to early 1980s he drew fantasy ink pictures for the Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert game rulebooks. He first gained attention for his 1980s comic book series Elementals published by Comico, which he both wrote and drew. However, for reasons unknown, the series had trouble maintaining an original schedule, and Willingham's position in the industry remained spotty for many years. He contributed stories to Green Lantern and started his own independent, black-and-white comics series Coventry which lasted only 3 issues. He also produced the pornographic series Ironwood for Eros Comix. In the late 1990s Willingham reestablished himself as a prolific writer. He produced the 13-issue Pantheon for Lone Star Press and wrote a pair of short novels about the modern adventures of the hero Beowulf, published by the writer's collective, Clockwork Storybook, of which Willingham was a founding member. In the early 2000s he began writing extensively for DC Comics, including the limited series Proposition Player, a pair of limited series about the Greek witch Thessaly from The Sandman, and most notably the popular series Fables

Marc Andreyko
Marc Andreyko
Author · 66 books
Marc Andreyko is a comic book and screenplay writer, best known for writing the 2000s ongoing series Manhunter for DC Comics.
Mark Buckingham
Mark Buckingham
Author · 15 books

Born as Mark John Buckingham May 23, 1966 in Clevedon, United Kingdom. He initially started working professionally on strips and illustrations for a British satire magazine called The Truth in 1987 where he first worked with Neil Gaiman illustrating some of his articles. His American debut came the following year as inker on DC Comics Hellblazer, taking over as penciller from issue 18. Some of Mark's earliest (non-professional) work appeared in early issues of the Clevedon Youth CND newsletter in the early 1980s (c.1982/83) in which he saterised members of the group in a fun and amusing manner. Copies of these are now very hard to find, although there a few still known to be in exsistance. He is most famous for his work on Marvelman (Miracleman, in the USA), Hellblazer, and Fables, including a story in the original graphic novel 1001 Nights of Snowfall. His Marvel work includes inking Chris Bachalo's pencils on Generation X, Ghost Rider 2099, and penciling Paul Jenkins' run on Peter Parker: Spider-Man. For DC Comics, Buckingham has inked the two Death miniseries and was the original penciller on the Titans series. In the 1990s Mark shared a studio with Beano and Marvel artist Kev F Sutherland, working together on Marvel's Star Trek and Dr Strange. During the Vert-igo Voices: Fables Forum panel at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con, Fables creator and writer Willingham-Bill announced that he and Buckingham will switch roles in an up-coming one-off, for Fables issue #100. Buckingham will write and Willingham-Bill will illustrate.[4] He was married in Gijón, Spain in August 2006 to journalist and TV newscaster Irma Page. His best man was Neil Gaiman.[5] Buckingham currently resides in Spain.

Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes
Author · 16 books

Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and TV. Her awards include the Arthur C Clarke Award, the prestigious University of Johannesburg prize, the August Derleth Prize, the Strand Critics Choice Award and the RT Thriller of the Year. She’s been honoured in South Africa’s parliament and most recently won the Mbokondo Award from the Department of Arts and Culture, celebrating women in the arts for her work in the Creative Writing field. She is the author of Broken Monsters, about art, ambition, damaged people and not-quite-broken cities, The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer, the nature of violence, and how we are haunted by history, Zoo City, a phantasmagorical noir set in Johannesburg which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and Moxyland, a dystopian political thriller about a corporate apartheid state where people are controlled by their cell phones. Her first book was a feminist pop-history, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past, which has recently been reprinted. Her comics work includes Survivors' Club, an original Vertigo comic with Dale Halvorsen and Ryan Kelly, the New York Times-bestselling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda, and a Wonder Woman one-shot for kids, “The Trouble With Cats” in Sensation Comics, set in Mozambique and Soweto and drawn by Mike Maihack. Her film and TV work includes directing the documentary, Glitterboys & Ganglands, about Cape Town’s biggest female impersonation beauty pageant. The film won best LGBT film at the San Diego Black Film Festival. She was the showrunner on South Africa’s first full length animated TV series, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika which ran for 104 half hour episodes from 2006-2009 on SABC3. She’s also written for the Disney shows Mouk and Florrie’s Dragons and on the satirical political puppet show,ZANews and Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s South African Story. Before that she was a freelance journalist for eight years, writing about electricity cable thieves, TB, circumcision, telemedicine, great white sharks, homeless sex workers, Botswana’s first female high court judge, and Barbie as a feminist icon for magazines ranging from The Sunday Times Lifestyle to Nature Medicine, Colors, The Big Issue and Marie Claire. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her daughter. www.laurenbeukes.com Twitter.com/laurenbeukes Instagram.com/laurenbeukes Facebook.com/laurenbeukes Awards & Achievements 2015 South Africa’s Mbokondo Award for Women In The Arts: Creative Writing 2014 August Derleth Award for The Shining Girls 2014 Strand Critics Choice Award for The Shining Girls 2014 NPR Best Books of the Year Broken Monsters 2014 LA Times Best Books of the Year Broken Monsters 2013 University of Johannesburg Literature Prize for The Shining Girls 2013 RT Thriller of the Year for The Shining Girls 2013 WHSmith Richard & Judy BookClub Choice 2013 Exclusive Books’ Bookseller’s Choice for The Shining Girls 2013 Amazon Best Mysteries and Thrillers for The Shining Girls 2011 Kitschies Red Tentacle for Zoo City 2010 Arthur C Clarke Award for Zoo City

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