
He lives somewhere near a good poker room.īorn in 1966 in the English seaside town of Clevedon, Mark Buckingham has worked in comics professionally for the past twenty years. His work has been nominated for many awards, including the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz comic industry awards and the International Horror Guild award. During that time, he's had work published by nearly every comics publisher in the business, and he's created many critically acclaimed comic book series, including Elementals, Coventry, Proposition Players, and of course the seminal Vertigo series Fables, as well as its spin-off series Fairest, Jack of Fables and The Literals.

This second of four fantastic compendiums features tales from the Eisner Award-winning series, created and written by Bill Willingham and illustrated by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, James Jean, and many more!īill Willingham has been writing, and sometimes drawing, comics for more than 20 years. The long-brewing war against the Adversary's empire is here, but even if our heroes succeed.happily ever after never comes without a price. Now, after years in exile, the citizens of Fabletown are finally ready to reclaim their Homelands. Disguised among the normal citizens of 21-st century New York City, these magical beings have created their own secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabbletown. But when a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered their home, the characters of folklore were forced to flee to a more mundane world. Once upon a time, the subjects of fairy tales-princesses, withces, talking animals, and more-lived far away in a fabled magical realm.

Get lost in the fantastic world of Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series Fables, now collected in the second beautiful and story-packed compendiums!
