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citrussnap · 8 months
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OH MY GOD hey y’all!!! sorry for not posting any art for a whole month I got severely art blocked and shit lmao
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ANYWAY here’s some sketches of goth Bigby and Snow!!! I ended up revisiting an old drawing of Bigby last year and I decided to redesign him a little 👍
It was supposed to be just for fun originally, but then it eventually ended up becoming a whole au thing where Bigby has a double life of being the sheriff, but on his off days he is secretly goth and frequents a lot of Fabletown’s goth clubs!
He was introduced to the whole subculture during an investigation in a goth club, after a while he notices the music and the way people were dressed around him and he became really fascinated by all of it, pretty sure you know what happens afterwards lol
Eventually Snow founds out about it and is confused at first but ends up loving the music and also developing the style as well along side Bigby!
(also thanks to my friend @elesketchii for basically helping me out with a lot of the ideas this silly little au idea thing with me, they also contributed by drawing the corporate goth Snow which I also drew myself alongside it :D)
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balu8 · 9 months
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Sean Gordon Murphy: Bigby (Fables)
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laboratoryrats · 11 months
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Note to Self - Word Balloons: A Study
(No spoilers, don't worry)
14 total comics to compare against, across genres with half as traditionally printed comics and half from webcomics. While not an exhaustive list, should be enough to start to give some idea about preferences.
Text Type: Either fully capitalized (EXAMPLE) or with mixed case (Example)
All Caps versus Mixed Case
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Mixed Case vs. ALL CAPS for all comics
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Mixed Case vs. ALL CAPS for Traditional Printed Comics AND for all webcomics (same results)
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A slight preference for the traditional method of writing out word balloons with text in all caps
Spacing Between Text and Outer Balloons
Min Spacing versus Regular Spacing versus Max Spacing
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Spacing between text and outer balloon for all comics
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Traditional comics are basically evenly split between a normal spacing (about the width of a letter) and min spacing (which leaves essentially no room between the text and the balloon)
Traditional comics slightly tend toward a minimizing the spacing between the text and the balloon
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Spacing between text and outer balloons for webcomics
Webcomics are split between between a normal spacing (about the width of a letter) and extra spacing (which can sometimes double or triple the distance between the text and the balloon). Webcomics slightly tend towards adding additional space between the text and the word balloon
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Word Balloons Within or Outside the Panels
Within Panel versus Outside Panel
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Whether word balloon (typically) lie entirely within or can exist outside the strict space of the panel
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This is perhaps the most obvious difference between webcomics and traditional comics. All traditional comics in this set only have word balloons that lie within the panel, while all the webcomics typically have there word balloons lie outside their panels
Conclusion
As reductive as it sounds, the overall conclusion is that any combination of word balloon choices are well represented in both traditional and webcomics. The only noticeable difference is that webcomics tend to take greater advantage of the negative space between panels by moving their word ballons out of the panel borders
Resources (and Comic Recommendations)
Format: Print (Traditional)
Fables by by Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha, Craig Hamilton, Sherilyn van Valkenburgh
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Nimona by ND Stevenson
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Bone by Jeff Smith
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Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel
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Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
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Tintin by Hergé
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Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson
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Format: Online (Webcomic via Webtoon)
Marionetta by Míriam Bonastre Tur
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Suitor Armor by Purpah
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Castle Swimmer by Wendy Lian Martin
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Cursed Princess Club by LambCat
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Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
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Space Boy by Stephen McCranie
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The Dragon Tutor by Mar_Mai
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kreemakai · 8 months
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if Brennan isn’t inspired but the Fables comics for both Neverafter and in a lesser way Unsleeping City than the will eat my hat.
the secret urban magic, the homogenous worlds of fairytales while also emphasizing differing worlds and realms, the appearance of King Cole who most people have never heard of, animal archetypes just being one dude: Big Bad wolf is All tales of wolves, trickster fox is All trickster foxes,
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munster0us · 1 year
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Better Beware for There’s a Wolf Among Us
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conkeybong · 1 year
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sheriff on patrol
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soft-djarin · 1 year
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FABLES CAST
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mrkanman · 1 year
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bloody mary, bloody mary, bloody mary
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executivenerd · 2 years
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I love early Snow/Bigby! This is their first interaction and he, The Big Bad Wolf, is perched casually on her desk, smoking in front of the "Thank You for Not Smoking" sign, while she, a character already established as uptight, isn't even really phased by it. It says so much about their characters and their relationship in such a short amount of time and I can't get over it!
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teninchherokkk · 2 months
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he was my first comic’ love 🤲🏼
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citrussnap · 1 year
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SECOND LITTLE ILLUSTRATION I DID IN THIS STYLE AND THIS TIME IT’S FEATURING MY FAVORITE GRUMPY WOLF MAN 😁👍
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swan-of-fabletown · 2 months
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Keira couldn't believe this Keira: That is the stupidest thing I heard, Bigby: I know even a mundy doesn't do something like that. Get your eyes tested Crane. It's old news. I don't know what's worse, you doing those marks like student work or those fanfics. I would rather say it's both.
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Keira was mad about those fanfics and marking her letters as if it was schoolwork, not that, but she couldn't hold her anger any more. Keira: I can't believe you, Crane. You still have a crush on me, even when I told you I don't love you. I am so pissed & going to say this one more time and make sure you hear me very clearly. I WILL NEVER EVER GO OUT & I DON'T LOVE YOU. GET THAT YOU M***********. Both Bigby and Cinderella were shocked to hear Kerry saying something out loud and they knew Keira rarely swears. Bigby: Calm down Keira, Crane needs to listen to what I need to say.
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paradisechid800 · 2 months
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Au where the fables never left the homelands
Bigby: *Not only in wolf form but has also kidnapped Princess Snow and now is cartoonishly roasting her over a fire.* Snow:... Snow: So why did you pick me? Bigby: What? Snow: Why did you pick me to kidnap and plan to eat out of everyone else...do you think I'm cute? Bigby: *blushes* W-What, n-no! I was hungry and you were there! Snow: Oh...so you were...aching for me, were you now? Bigby: What is wrong with you!?!? I'm literally about to eat you! Snow: OOOHHH...we love a man who's so excited to give head. Bigby: You know what? I give up! Charming: My love, I've come to rescue y- Snow: Charming? Ew. Can't you see I'm on a date? Bigby: WE ARE NOT TOGETHER!
Charming: Whao! This is some serious sexual tension, I'll leave you two to your bestiality. Bigby: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU RICH PEOPLE!?!?! Snow: A lot of things, dear.
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ladyantiheroine · 1 year
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Hi...It's me...again. Sorry for bothering you. But I was looking through the Fables comics and noticed the similarities and differences between Snow White in The Wolf Among Us game vs the comics. So I was wondering, what is your personal opinion about the character and she is handled the different media's?
Hello! You’re not a bother at all! I love having an excuse to ramble about this franchise.
I confess, I haven’t finished reading all of the comics so this is an imperfect opinion based on incomplete information.
Short answer: Similarly to Bigby, I like Snow in the game better than in the comics. She feels like a more fleshed-out and well-rounded character in the game.
Long answer:
All the characters in the game, including Snow, feel like they have more depth than in the comics. Despite the comics being longer, the characters feel static and don’t change much. In the game, the characters feel like they’ve been impacted and changed by the story’s events.
I definitely think Snow’s personality was softened in the game compared to the comics. Bother versions are assertive, both call Bigby out on his shit, and both genuinely want to help Fabletown but are privileged in a way that limits that goal because they don’t entirely understand how to help underprivileged Fables. But Snow doesn’t have the same Ice Queen energy as she does the comics.
I don’t dislike Snow in the comics the way other fans do. I have a soft spot for unlikable female characters and I don’t think all female characters are obligated to be warm balls of sunshine (especially considering the traumatic shit Snow has gone through). But in the game we see glimpses past that strictness that give her more layers and dimensionality than she does in the comics.
Like I said in my post on Bigby, the characters in TWAU just feel like they have more depth than in the comics because the scale is smaller and the struggles more internal. Snow is not just a one-note ice queen but instead a woman whose business-like demeanor hides someone who is desperately trying to maintain order in a very chaotic situation. 
Part of this is because Bill Willingham just doesn’t seem interested in the internal lives of the characters like Telltale is. I know Fables is an ensemble story and is more interested in the bigger scope politics of the world rather than individual character journeys. But the result is that characters go through horrible things and the story weirdly just keeps going. It glosses over how these events would actually affect them and it feels so weird.
(Potential spoilers in this paragraph)
Snow goes through SO MUCH traumatic shit in the first few volumes alone. She thinks her sister is murdered, she’s ruthlessly pursued in volume two by Fables who want her blood, she’s drugged and almost assassinated by Bluebeard and Goldilocks, she has sex with a man she’s only just now warming up to while under the drugs and gets pregnant, survives the battle of Fabletown while pregnant, goes through an extremely painful birthing process delivering six werewolf children, and then had to quit her job as mayor and move away from Fabletown to raise them away from their father who has fucked off to somewhere unknown. ALL WITHIN THE FIRST FEW VOLUMES.
Like, kudos to Snow for having the strength to survive all that but I’m reading all this thinking, “Damn, girl, ARE YOU OKAY???”
But the story never pauses to really sit with Snow and consider how all this is affecting her. Which is weird given how much time we spend with her and how she’s one the closest characters that Fables has to a protagonist. She just experiences horrible things and then just carries on with business as usual. Because Willingham just doesn’t seem to care.
Compare this to the TellTale game, where we see how things affect Snow. She’s shaken when she sees Lily’s dead body glamoured to look like her and even worries Lily’s death was her fault somehow. She’s unnerved when she finds out her boss has been creeping on her and glamouring sex workers to look like her. She gives Bigby a lot of shit because she’s worried he’ll get hurt. We see moments where her professional front slips and we see someone who is rightfully terrified of this whole situation. 
The comics rarely stop to do the same. How does she feel about having to quit her job to raise her kids far away without Bigby? How does she feel after being drugged and impregnated without her consent? How does she feel about GETTING HER FUCKING HEAD BLOWN OFF by Goldilocks? All this has to be taking a psychological toll on her, right??
TellTale Snow reacts to things, comics Snow doesn’t because Willingham doesn’t seem to care all that much.
Plus, sometimes Snow’s characterization in the comics feels like a conservative man’s uncharitable idea of a “strong female character.” Like he thinks if a woman is strong and assertive, that means she’s just a mean old bitch. He can’t imagine an assertive woman would actually give a shit about anyone or be properly affected by anything. And later she becomes this weepier version of herself around Bigby, but it feels out of nowhere and contrasts with what we’ve seen of her so far. It doesn’t feel like a gradual character arc.
It feels a little Taming of the Shrew, like Willingham created this assertive female character and wanted to “take her down a peg” and domesticate her. This change feels out of nowhere because, again, because Willingham isn’t interested in looking inward at his characters enough to connect any dots.
And I won’t get into Snow’s romance with Bigby because…Willingham just can’t write romance like TellTale can. The few glimpses of romantic potential we see between them in the game is way more convincing and makes me way more invested than any of the explicitly romantic moments in Fables. I just wish the TellTale games would cut off from the comics entirely and give Bigby and Snow the better love story they deserve.
So yeah, in short: I appreciate both versions but TellTale Snow is given more depth and more time to respond to things than her comic book counterpart. TellTale simply cares more about Snow’s internal life than Willingham does.
Sorry for another long response, but I hope this makes sense. I love Snow White as a character.  When I went to read the comics after I finished the game, I was excited to see her as mayor and get a proper love story with Bigby. Unfortunately, I just don’t think Willingham is as good at character-driven storytelling as TellTale is.
Thank you for the question!
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bat-hotel · 7 months
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HAVE YE HEARD THE GOOD NEWS?? https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the?r=afz1t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web (IDK if or how links in asks work but the tl;dr is that Fables is gonna become public domain, time to take it away from willinghams filthy little hands)
I JUST HEARD IT FROM @rowdy-boy-central OHHHHHH MY GODS I'M SWIRLING WITH JOY TODAY
L + RATIO BWILLY BOY.
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