Peter & Max - Bill Willingham [109]
STEVE LEIALOHA
BILL WILLINGHAM
Bill Willingham never fought a desperate and losing battle in a good cause, never contributed to society in a meaningful way, and hasn’t lived a life of adventure. But he’s had a few moments of near adventure. There was that time in the Yucatan jungles when he didn’t get eaten by the leopard, on the same day he narrowly avoided (barely by a mile or two) stumbling into the column of army ants on the march. Once in the mountains of Idaho he didn’t do battle with the black bear that was napping in the middle of the only trail down to civilization. In Northern Germany, during the annual Reforger war games, a main battle tank didn’t fire on him when he had to pull it over for a traffic citation. And once, in the Boundary Waters, he nearly landed a lake trout this big (hold your hands apart — no, farther apart than that), but it got away just as he was lifting it into the boat. At some point in his life Bill learned how to get paid for telling scurrilous lies to good people, and he’s been doing it ever since. He lives in the wild and frosty woods of Minnesota with a dog and a cat he hasn’t met yet.
STEVE LEIALOHA
A thirty-year veteran of the industry, Steve Leialoha has worked for nearly every major comics publisher in the course of his distinguished career. Titles featuring his artwork include DC’s Batman, Superman and Justice League International, Vertigo’s The Dreaming, The Sandman Presents: Petrefax and The Sandman Presents: The Deadboy Detectives, Marvel’s The Uncanny X-Men, Spider-Woman and Dr. Strange, Epic’s Coyote, Harris’ Vampirella and many of Paradox Press’ Big Book volumes. Since 2002, Leialoha has inked Bill Willingham’s hit Vertigo series Fables, for which he and penciller Mark Buckingham won the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker Team.
Follow the monthly adventures of the multiple Eisner Award-winning FABLES series:
Vol. 1: LEGENDS IN EXILE
The immortal characters of popular fairy tales have been driven from their homelands and now live hidden among us, trying to cope with life in 21st-century Manhattan.
Vol. 2: ANIMAL FARM
Non-human Fable characters have found refuge in upstate New York on The Farm, miles from mankind. But a conspiracy to free them from their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war that could wrest control of the Fables community away from Snow White.
Vol. 3: STORYBOOK LOVE
Love may be blooming between two of the most hard-bitten, no-nonsense Fables around. But are Snow White and Bigby Wolf destined for happiness — or a quick and untimely death?
Vol. 4: MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS
When Little Red Riding Hood suddenly walks through the gate between this world and the lost Fable Homelands, she’s welcomed as a miraculous survivor by nearly everyone — except for her old nemesis, Bigby Wolf, who smells spying and subversion more than survival.
Vol. 5: THE MEAN SEASONS
This trade paperback features two tales of Bigby’s exploits during World War II as well as “The Year After,” which follows the aftermath of the Adversary’s attempt to conquer Fabletown — including the birth of Snow White and Bigby’s cubs!
Vol. 6: HOMELANDS
Boy Blue is on a mission of revenge as he uncovers the Adversary’s true identity! Plus, the two-part story of Jack’s adventures in Hollywood, and the tale of Mowgli’s return to Fabletown.
Vol. 7: ARABIAN NIGHTS AND DAYS
Opening a new front in the struggle between the Fables and the Adversary, the worlds of the Arabian Fables are invaded — leading to an unprecedented diplomatic mission to Manhattan and a nasty case of culture shock.
Vol. 8: WOLVES
The community of Fables living undercover in our midst has endured plenty of suffering at the hands of the Adversary. Now it’s time to return the favor, but the one Fable who can accomplish this mission has hidden himself away in the