Down the Mysterly River - Softcover

Praise for the works of Bill Willingham:

Winner of 14 Eisner Awards

2003 Eisner Award for Best New Series

2004 YALSA Quick Picks Selection for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

2007 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Selection

2009 Best Writer Eisner for writing on Fables and House of Mystery

2009 Hugo nomination for Best Graphic Story

"Eisner-winning comics creator Willingham (the Fables series) makes his middle-grade debut with an action-packed and often touching novel...that explores the nature of characters and authorship...The end result is a stellar example of a novel working both as an adventure tale and as metafiction."--Starred review, "Publishers Weekly"""

"Willingham's Fables comics tapped into the deep fairy-tale structures in my psyche and never let go. Now, "Down the Mysterly River "finally delivers the same opportunity for younger readers. Lucky them!"--Cory Doctorow, "New York"" Times "bestselling author of "Little Brother"

"Eisner-winning comics creator Willingham (the "Fables" series) makes his middle-grade debut with an action-packed and often touching novel...that explores the nature of characters and authorship.... The end result is a stellar example of a novel working both as an adventure tale and as metafiction."
--"Publishers Weekly", starred review

"Now Willingham is turning his attention to middle-grade readers with a tangentially themed fish-out-of-water tale that subtracts most of the pictures and is much more of a true fable.... [A]wonderful book."
"--Los Angeles Times"

"Willingham's "Fables" comics tapped into the deep fairy-tale structures in my psyche and never let go. Now, "Down the Mysterly River "finally delivers the same opportunity for younger readers. Lucky them!" --Cory Doctorow, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Little Brother"

Now Willingham is turning his attention to middle-grade readers with a tangentially themed fish-out-of-water tale that subtracts most of the pictures and is much more of a true fable . [A]wonderful book."

Eisner-winning comics creator Willingham (the "Fables" series) makes his middle-grade debut with an action-packed and often touching novel...that explores the nature of characters and authorship . The end result is a stellar example of a novel working both as an adventure tale and as metafiction. "Publishers Weekly, starred review"

Now Willingham is turning his attention to middle-grade readers with a tangentially themed fish-out-of-water tale that subtracts most of the pictures and is much more of a true fable . [A]wonderful book. "Los Angeles Times"

Willingham's "Fables" comics tapped into the deep fairy-tale structures in my psyche and never let go. Now, "Down the Mysterly River "finally delivers the same opportunity for younger readers. Lucky them! "Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother""

Eisner-winning comics creator Willingham (the Fables series) makes his middle-grade debut with an action-packed and often touching novel...that explores the nature of characters and authorship . The end result is a stellar example of a novel working both as an adventure tale and as metafiction. Publishers Weekly, starred review

Now Willingham is turning his attention to middle-grade readers with a tangentially themed fish-out-of-water tale that subtracts most of the pictures and is much more of a true fable . [A]wonderful book. Los Angeles Times

Willingham's Fables comics tapped into the deep fairy-tale structures in my psyche and never let go. Now, Down the Mysterly River finally delivers the same opportunity for younger readers. Lucky them! Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother

BILL WILLINGHAM is the critically acclaimed, award-winning creator of several iconic comic book series, including the bestselling Fables franchise. In 2003, its first year of publication, Fables won the prestigious Eisner award for Best New Series, and has gone on to win fourteen Eisners to date.

Bill lives in the wild and frosty woods of Minnesota.

MARK BUCKINGHAM has been working in comics professionally for the past twenty-two years, building a reputation for design, storytelling, and a chameleon-like diversity of art styles. Since 2002 Mark has been the regular artist on Fables, working with its writer and creator Bill Willingham, for which they have earned numerous comic industry awards.