Castle Waiting
by:
Jane Yolen (author)
Linda Medley (author)
This (wildly popular) graphic novel, a feminist fairy tale,is now in paperback.
This (wildly popular) graphic novel, a feminist fairy tale,is now in paperback.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781606996027 (1606996029)
Publish date: December 12th 2012
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Pages no: 472
Edition language: English
Series: Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection (#1)
The opening story of Castle Waiting, which explains how the castle came to be abandoned, so to speak, is a variation on Sleeping Beauty. Only once the princess is awakened from her century of sleep and the hedge surrounding the castle lets people in and out, she goes off with her prince and pretty m...
This is my second time reading this book. I like it, but at times it's almost despite itself.The illustrations are good, the off kilter look at well known fairy tales is more familiar to us now then it perhaps was when the comics were first coming out but the author's take holds up very well, and th...
I love this book, and I am not in the least bit ashamed to admit that, even in the face of its more, shall we say, Hallmark moments. Reading this while I have been also reading the Bane origin story, [b:Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1|12623655|Batman Knightfall, Vol. 1 (New Edition)|Chuck Dixon|http://...
"Castle Waiting" tells the story of the inhabitants of Sleeping Beauty's castle, after she has been woken and long ago left. An isolated castle surrounded by the ruin of a town and a high briar hedge, it is a place which has become a sanctuary.This thick volume is divided into three main portions. ...
I have been recommended this comic by many trusted people for more years than i can count, i've always avoided it though because it was really hard to find.I have to thank Fantagraphics for keeping the comic alive and printing these editions.It was everything i was told and more...
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