Of course, Fables itself is based on public-domain characters. The comic centers on fairy tale characters who, at the start of the story, find themselves exiled into the mundane world (their world for ...

Earlier in the week, Bill Willingham, creator of Fables, posted – in response to reports that the final issues of Fables: The Black Forest were getting later and later – that he was firing DC Comics.

Gavin Lees writes for Bleeding Cool: Fables has been the landmark achievement of Bill Willingham's career. For over a decade, he has reshaped fairy tale characters into an allegory of the modern world ...

“The definition of a fable shouldn’t be cramped,” wrote author, illustrator and humorist James Thurber in 1956. “It can embrace any pointed and recognizable aspect of human behavior, turned out in a ...