NOTE: Before you read the post below, read this post.
Next summer, Silverline Books will release the hardcover, kid-friendly anthology “Fractured Fables” nationwide.
The anthology’s lineup is pretty fantastic, including all-new work from Bryan Talbot (“Alice in Sunderland”), Doug TenNapel (“Earthworm Jim”) and Ted McKeever (“Transit”), to name a few.
For some reason, they invited yours truly to take part in the anthology, too.
“Fractured Fables” is exactly that: Classic children’s stories and fairy tales taken apart, messed with, and put back together. I chose to do a twisted version of “Rub-A-Dub-Dub,” which artist Seth Damoose then illustrated. Longtime friend/collaborator Marla Campbell handled the coloring on the four-page story.
There isn’t a hard release date yet for the anthology, but an abbreviated preview will be available on Free Comic Book Day next year (Saturday, May 1st, 2010). “Rub-A-Dub-Dub” will not appear in the preview, but it’s still definitely worth picking up. Especially because it’s FREE!
It’s still a ways off, and I’ll be sure to promote the book more as we get closer to the release date, but they just sent out a press release so I thought I’d put the word out there now.
Oh, and did I mention that the cover was done by Mike and Laura Allred (“Madman Atomic Comics”)? Yeah, it was. Check it out below, and click on the image to see a larger version.
Messing with kids since I was one,
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December 17, 2009 at 1:07 am
Ralph-
Mike and Laura are my two of my favorite people on the planet!!
December 17, 2009 at 6:53 am
John
This is great news, Justin! Congratulations!
December 17, 2009 at 12:04 pm
dave theune
I can’t wait to get it in my hands!!
December 17, 2009 at 12:45 pm
jshady
Thanks, guys!
December 18, 2009 at 12:08 am
jeremyrscott
Congratulations, Justin. Hey, wait a minute. I am in this book to HA HA.