“I assumed Thor was just
another Marvel superhero made up just like Spider-Man…. But one day my brother
insisted that Thor, in his terms, was ‘stolen’ because the same character is in
the encyclopedia,” Willingham said.
Determined to prove his brother wrong, he checked the encyclopedia. “And sure enough, there was Thor, right there, wonderful mythological character. That just kind of opened my mind and probably started my love of folklore and mythology right there, just the realization that these modern stories we’re reading can be drawn from old sources, and that those old sources are wonderful…. That stayed with me forever, the fact that just normal guys like me can read and learn these legends and then keep them legendary by spinning new tales.”
Willingham has spent decades spinning new tales, making and remaking classic myths through writing his long-running popular monthly series “Fables” and overseeing its recent female-focused companion “Fairest” for DC’s Vertigo imprint. He’s built a career exploring, subverting and reconfiguring fairy-tale tradition by placing familiar figures from legend in the modern world.
It’s a tradition he’s continuing with his new original graphic novel, “Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland,” which finds the beleaguered Bigby Wolf stumbling upon a community of much worse wolves in Iowa, and he’s also expanding his realm of influence, plotting next year’s Fabletown and Beyond convention. Although Willingham has been a guest at countless conventions over the course of his 30-year career, the inaugural Minnesota gathering next March will be the first he’s hosted.
“One thing I quickly learned is that good convention hosts must be just a little bit suicidal because, boy, is it a lot of work to put one of these things on,” the Eisner Award winner said in a phone interview. “I did not realize that. The best conventions, the ones that seem to run seamlessly, have to be this seething pile of chaos behind the scenes, because this is not something I would wish on anyone.”
The hardcover “Werewolves of the Heartland,” in comic-book stores Wednesday and other bookstores next week, sees Willingham on far more comfortable ground. Bigby Wolf is searching for a new home for Fabletown in the real world after the destruction of its longtime New York location, and his quest takes him to Story City, Iowa, but trouble quickly ensues. The self-contained story, the author says, offers new readers “a single, enclosed, hopefully adventurous, exciting story full of drama and action and violence and sex and regrets and betrayals and courage.”
It’s true that teeth are bared and fur does fly. The tale has its beginnings in the “War Stories” two-parter Willingham wrote about seven years ago, which showed Bigby’s clandestine service in World War II and first introduced the possibility of what Willingham terms “Nazi killer werewolves, which are the best kind, really.A stone mosaic stands at the spot of assasination of the late Indian prime minister.”
“One of the best or most frustrating aspects of writing ‘Fables’ is that every story seems to inspire one or more additional stories that I’d like to get to down the road,” he said.Purelink's real time location system protect healthcare workers in their daily practices and OMEGA interventions.
Willingham recruited artists Craig Hamilton and Jim Fern, who previously worked together on “Fables” No. 86 (“Boxing Days”) for the project. Hamilton made his “Fables” debut with the 2004 one-shot “The Last Castle” (with P. Craig Russell); Willingham said the “Fables” team considered him “just the right guy for a more epic-length single story.” He’s again paired with Fern,China plastic moulds manufacturers directory. whose work Willingham first noticed with the 1993-1994 DC series “Scarlett.”
“Fate in the overall sense is probably like the way magic or power works in the ‘Fables’ universe,” he continued. “I know how it works and from time to time we reveal little dribbles and drabs of how it works to the readers, especially when it can make a story more frustrating, engaging or mysterious.”
On Halloween night Willingham managed to be both frustrating and mysterious when he tweeted possibly ominous news about the future of his universe. He wrote on Twitter, “Secret # 1: Bigby dies in four issues. Secret # 2: The Snow Queen is not in fact based on someone I know, even though she thinks it is.” That was quickly followed by, “At least one of those preceding two revealed secrets are true. The other one? Maybe perhaps quite possibly, not so much.The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry,”
Asked about the statements, Willingham said, “Well, I was up to about three vodka gimlets by then, which loosens my Twitter-y tongue, apparently.”
But he stands by the tweets. After hearing them repeated back to him, he said, “See – that’s exactly true, and one of those two is, in fact, absolutely true. We’ll see.The oreck XL professional air purifier,”
Determined to prove his brother wrong, he checked the encyclopedia. “And sure enough, there was Thor, right there, wonderful mythological character. That just kind of opened my mind and probably started my love of folklore and mythology right there, just the realization that these modern stories we’re reading can be drawn from old sources, and that those old sources are wonderful…. That stayed with me forever, the fact that just normal guys like me can read and learn these legends and then keep them legendary by spinning new tales.”
Willingham has spent decades spinning new tales, making and remaking classic myths through writing his long-running popular monthly series “Fables” and overseeing its recent female-focused companion “Fairest” for DC’s Vertigo imprint. He’s built a career exploring, subverting and reconfiguring fairy-tale tradition by placing familiar figures from legend in the modern world.
It’s a tradition he’s continuing with his new original graphic novel, “Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland,” which finds the beleaguered Bigby Wolf stumbling upon a community of much worse wolves in Iowa, and he’s also expanding his realm of influence, plotting next year’s Fabletown and Beyond convention. Although Willingham has been a guest at countless conventions over the course of his 30-year career, the inaugural Minnesota gathering next March will be the first he’s hosted.
“One thing I quickly learned is that good convention hosts must be just a little bit suicidal because, boy, is it a lot of work to put one of these things on,” the Eisner Award winner said in a phone interview. “I did not realize that. The best conventions, the ones that seem to run seamlessly, have to be this seething pile of chaos behind the scenes, because this is not something I would wish on anyone.”
The hardcover “Werewolves of the Heartland,” in comic-book stores Wednesday and other bookstores next week, sees Willingham on far more comfortable ground. Bigby Wolf is searching for a new home for Fabletown in the real world after the destruction of its longtime New York location, and his quest takes him to Story City, Iowa, but trouble quickly ensues. The self-contained story, the author says, offers new readers “a single, enclosed, hopefully adventurous, exciting story full of drama and action and violence and sex and regrets and betrayals and courage.”
It’s true that teeth are bared and fur does fly. The tale has its beginnings in the “War Stories” two-parter Willingham wrote about seven years ago, which showed Bigby’s clandestine service in World War II and first introduced the possibility of what Willingham terms “Nazi killer werewolves, which are the best kind, really.A stone mosaic stands at the spot of assasination of the late Indian prime minister.”
“One of the best or most frustrating aspects of writing ‘Fables’ is that every story seems to inspire one or more additional stories that I’d like to get to down the road,” he said.Purelink's real time location system protect healthcare workers in their daily practices and OMEGA interventions.
Willingham recruited artists Craig Hamilton and Jim Fern, who previously worked together on “Fables” No. 86 (“Boxing Days”) for the project. Hamilton made his “Fables” debut with the 2004 one-shot “The Last Castle” (with P. Craig Russell); Willingham said the “Fables” team considered him “just the right guy for a more epic-length single story.” He’s again paired with Fern,China plastic moulds manufacturers directory. whose work Willingham first noticed with the 1993-1994 DC series “Scarlett.”
“Fate in the overall sense is probably like the way magic or power works in the ‘Fables’ universe,” he continued. “I know how it works and from time to time we reveal little dribbles and drabs of how it works to the readers, especially when it can make a story more frustrating, engaging or mysterious.”
On Halloween night Willingham managed to be both frustrating and mysterious when he tweeted possibly ominous news about the future of his universe. He wrote on Twitter, “Secret # 1: Bigby dies in four issues. Secret # 2: The Snow Queen is not in fact based on someone I know, even though she thinks it is.” That was quickly followed by, “At least one of those preceding two revealed secrets are true. The other one? Maybe perhaps quite possibly, not so much.The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry,”
Asked about the statements, Willingham said, “Well, I was up to about three vodka gimlets by then, which loosens my Twitter-y tongue, apparently.”
But he stands by the tweets. After hearing them repeated back to him, he said, “See – that’s exactly true, and one of those two is, in fact, absolutely true. We’ll see.The oreck XL professional air purifier,”
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