However, Willingham’s series also knowingly responds to the literary European fairy-tale canon (mainly Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Kinder- und Hausmärchen ), multiplying retellings of the tales and drawing attention to the relationships between the various characters that inspired them. In Fables, Willingham draws on the popular tradition of Americanised fairy tales (especially Walt Disney’s animated films) and mixes it with another widespread American genre, that of DC and Marvel comic-book superheroes 4.

In his definition of “ comic books and graphic novels with fairy-tale contents ” as “ reproductions of well-known stories represented by drawn pictures ”, Jack Zipes highlights the prevalence of visual images in the comic-book medium 3. Most of these modern transcreations give predominance to the visual elements of fairy tales, and Willingham’s comic-book series is no exception. Indeed, fairy tales are nowadays undergoing a nouvelle jeunesse (to refer to the title of this issue), as they are adapted into films, TV series, comic books, video games, photographs, adverts, window displays, theme parks and associated merchandising 2. Her statement that they will never let Snow White (and other characters) die accounts for the endless reproduction of fairy-tale plots, protagonists, images, and motifs in traditional and modern media. non-magical human beings) love her so much that they want her story to be told and retold in books and films. 4 American comic-book superheroes are also currently encountering a huge success in the film industry (.)ġ At the end of volume 2 of Bill Willingham’s comic book series Fables (2002-2015), Rose Red explains that her sister Snow White’s miraculous revival after being shot in the head is due to the fact that the “ mundys ” ( i.Zipes, “ Comic Books and Graphic Novels ”, p. 2 Recent fairy-tale films include Mirror Mirror (2012), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), and Disne (.).

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