Not as much fun as its companion Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists, which makes sense. nursery rhymes being more enigmatic and so more conducive to playful reinterpretations. Most of the stories drawn here are told straight, which can be good if your children, like mine, could use a basic fairy tale literacy boost. My favorite was "The Boy Who Drew Cats" by Luke Pearson.

I had problems seeing the text in this graphic novel. I bought it on the Kindle and the format would not let me enlarge the font and it only had the landscape option for a two-page spread. I need one of those ornate magnifying glasses they sell in Taiwan for older people who can't read the tiny Chinese characters on labels. Never had a book make me feel old before. Nose pressed to the glass, I will remember my eye strain more than the stories. While there were some funny fairytale twists, I thou...

I loved this book and the different spin the cartoonists put on these old stories I grew up on. The artwork is different for every story (17 in total) and some of them are really funny. Here were a few of my favorites:

When I was in elementary school, I distinctly remember how popular Jon Scieszka’s The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales was. Managing to get a hold of it at the school library was pretty much impossible, because everyone wanted to read it. I can easily imagine Fairy Tale Comics being similarly popular with the intended audience. The stories are light-hearted and funny, though with just enough of the cruelty of the original tales to delight kids, because, let’s be honest, children

I swear, the artists Chris Duffy gets for these anthologies do their very best work for him. People who do serious, sometimes hard to read long-form work like Habibi (Charles Thompson), Skim (Jillian Tamaki), and Asterios Polyp (Dave Mazzuchelli) let loose with all the humor and charm that they sometimes withhold from their main work. On the other hand, artists like Charise Mericle Harper and Raina, who are almost always fun and charming, add a little smidge of arch and sass to their pieces in t...

I enjoyed reading this. It included different cartoonists for each tale and each tale originated from different cultures and different parts of the world. These fairy tales had good life lessons and they are very easy to understand. This is a fun and quick read!

Editor Chris Duffy chose the fairy tales to be included in this book by trying to have a mix of well-known tales, some non-European stories, and a mix of male and female protagonists. Each tale is illustrated by a different artist, each in their own style. Some of the things I really enjoyed were the female lumberjack in Little Red Riding Hood, the headdress on Snow White's evil stepmother that looked like horns on her head, the wordless version of Goldilocks, and the Bremen Town musicians on st...

• I thought it did a great job fracturing some of the fairy tales. I was however disappointed that I didn’t recognize as many of the short stories as I was hoping. Out of the 17 stories, I only knew 6 of them. This makes it hard to compare the tales with the originals if you have never read them. Even though these are fairy tales, the graphics are somewhat freighting which make it hard to use with first grade. • Writing with focus on fractured fairy tales, grades 1-7 • (2013, Sept 1). School lib...

Fairy tales are part of our DNA. They tell us we can be brave; great evil can be defeated; and sometimes things work out in unexpected ways. They are the stories we tell – and retell – in every generation. From campfire storytelling to bards to Disney, fairy tales have shifted in response to time and circumstance, becoming the stories that need to be told - or retold. Oral storytelling is intricately linked with tradition of using images to tell stories, whether through cave drawings, tapestries...

Quick telling of fairy tales in graphic novel form. The art was interesting and colorful. They chose some unusual tales and ones everyone knows. I liked the artwork. I enjoyed: The Boy who Drew Cats - funny, Baba Yaga, Give me the Shudders and 12 Dancing Princesses. They were unknown to me and I enjoyed new tales. I also appreciated Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White. It's good to read these classics as a graphic novel. Fun Times.

This was a really fun anthology. From "Sweet Porridge" by Bobby London to "Azzolino's Story Without End" (a great place to end). I found the whole thing a delight. And I'm excited to have been introduced to Gigi D.G. and her online comic Cucumber Quest (which I'm about to check out.)

What an entertaining read! I love when authors/editors put a new spin on an old tale and this book features seventeen traditional stories. I think graphic novels like this one are great for introducing readers to a new format with a familiar story. I had only encountered one of the cartoonists before checking out this book (Raina Telgemeier, who is awesome!), but I found several new favorites! Gilbert Hernández's Hansel and Gretel was so adorably abrupt with the witch's demeanor that I actually

A fabulous collection of classic fairytales graphically revisited. Each is a unique retelling of an original with fabulously different illustrations to match. I enjoyed some more than others, but as a whole it is a wonderful collection.

I was a little disappointed in this comic anthology until I read the afterword. FAIRY TALE COMICS achieves what it sets out to do: illustrate the big tales and only a few obscure ones. FAIRY TALE COMICS is truly a collection for children, who aren't so familiar with the tales or expecting of subversion.Editor Chris Duffy lined up a fantastic group of creators. I fell in love with Luke Pearson's work after reading HILDA AND THE MIDNIGHT GIANT for the Cybils last year, and his "The Boy Who Drew Ca...

3.5 StarsThis is a collection of fairy tales that many of us are already familiar with illustrated and written by some wonderful comic artists. This is a collection of 18 wonderful stories.I thoroughly enjoyed reading these comics: however, I wasn’t floored by them. To me, this collection was just good. Not great, not excellent, but good. These were very fun to read, but I’m glad I didn’t spend money on the collection. I was pleasantly surprised to find a story by each Craig Thompson and Emily C...

This collection classic fairy tales offers a mix of well-known and lesser known tales. From the Brothers Grimm tales to Charles Perrault’s Puss in Boots to the 1001 Nights , this wonderful compilation varies in style and kind. Included are folklore tales from Europe, Russia, Japan, and America. Also included is a list books and websites for further exploration into the realm of fairy tales. This assortment of tales makes for a fun and interesting read for anyone who appreciates make-believe.

Excellent! A very well curated collection,not a turkey among the cartoonists chosen.

This book was umm... Interesting. I don't have much to say because it was weird. All the fairy tales in the book were not the same stories I was told. Some of them I just did not know like Babayaga or Give Me The Shudders. Sometimes there were little side remarks in the book that made me laugh. I would recommend this to no one because they twist the stories a little and it can get boring.

This is a really fun book that is exactly what the title says it is: multiple fairy tale comics. Some of the comics I enjoyed more than others and I'm sure most of those were because of the art.Favorites are:12 Dancing Princesses: I was surprised to realize after reading this one that it is by an artist I am already familiar with. I read all of her short online comics a few months back, but didn't make the connection until reading her bio at the back of the book. I really do recommend her comics...

Fairy Tale Comics is a collection of fairy tales, re-imagined (and re-imaged) by various cartoonists- Raina Telgemeier (Smile), Craig Thompson (Blankets), and Brett Helquist (A Series of Unfortunate Events) to name a few.The tales span from Grimm's Fairy Tales to Russian and Japanese folktales to Bre'r Rabbit tales from the South. The variety of illustrations is amazing, each with its own qualities. Some are narrative, some are mainly dialogue, some are wordless. Speaking of dialogue, "Hansel &