The Fairy Tale Critic

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stylishanachronism:

secondlina:

batbcomic:

Hey Anon!

Ohhhhh my gosh. Do I EVER know some fairytale webcomics! (and If you have any suggestions for others, do send them in, I’ll update the list)

Megan Kearney’s Beauty and The Beast: Shameless self promotion! A long-form adaptation of the classic tale

Erstwhile: an ongoing collection of shorter Grimm’s stories by a group of artists

No Rest For The Wicked: An unfinished fairytale quest story, featuring characters from many popular and lesser known stories

The Black Bull of Norroway: newly launched, and gorgeous. An adaptation of the fairy tale.

Namesake: A young woman journies through fictional worlds, most notably Oz, and encounters two mysterious organizations who both want to harness her strange abilities (Super bonus - the authors also masterminded the Valor Anthology, of which I am a part!)

Elise Oterlei’s Beauty and the Beast: an unfinished adaptation of the story, focusing on a young magician and the curse laid on her disfigured mentor and his servants

100 Days of Night: A snarky adaptation of the myth of Hades and Persephone

Sailor Twain: A riverboat captain becomes enchanted by a wounded mermaid who is sought by various passengers for a multitude of reasons. Now available in print from First Second (Super bonus - I appear as a background character on several pages, and even snag some dialogue!)

Blindspings: So pretty you’ll cry. More fairytale-flavoured than true fairy tale.

Emily Carroll: Author of a number of short, horror-tinged stories, many in the fairy tale vein. some recently collected in Through The Woods.

Adding to the pile of Fairy tale comics :

Alice and the Nightmare (hiatus) : a dreamland adventure set in Wonderland (to which I am a sort of consultant writer for now).

Black Brick of Oz : Want MORE Oz story, but creepy and colorful? Give this one a read!

The Evil Queen : A compelling tale exploring the life and motivation of the evil Queen from Snow White. 

Hearts of Roeses : Another adventure set in Wonderland, this type around a steampunk dystopia with clockwork hearts.

Hemlock : A super cool spin on northern tales following the troublesome marriage of a disgruntled witch and the son of Baba Yaga.

Wilde Life : More folklore stories, more Baba Yaga, more werewolves! A young man with a punny name rents out a house and ends up with various supernatural entities on his hands. 

Stand Still, Stay Silent : A group of teens travel in a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland riddled with magical mystery. 

Wither : A changeling is trying to find her way home.

I’ll throw in a couple:

A Redtail’s Dream (by the same lady who does SSSS): An anti-social boy and his very social dog have to save their village from the mistakes of a foolish fox spirit. It’s based pretty firmly on the Kalevala, which is neat. Finished.

Mixed Myth: A half elf, half goblin girl has to escape, control, or fight the powers that be, which include her father the elf lord, her mother’s pet maybe-dragon, and the narrative itself. Full of super bad puns and weird takes on fairytale monsters. Finished.

Golden: A dubious experiment in storytelling. Short and to the point and based off the Firebird, but hysterically funny all the same. Finished.

And me again!

Crystal Saga: A recently launched tale merging Twelve Dancing Princesses with Sleeping Beauty

Troll Tooth: A young Sami girl goes on a quest to rescue her brother from a troll marriage, loosely based on East of the Sun, West of the Moon.