Bill Willingham has interviewed himself to discuss the controversy that has arisen about Fables and Once Upon A Time. For those of you unfamiliar with it, ABC optioned Fables, wrote a pilot and declined to move forward, then they came out with Once Upon A Time. Many people have assumed that it was done to screw over Willingham, but he sets the record straight.
Just to reiterate that there’s no war here. If you like “Fables,” you needn’t dislike “Once,” and vice versa. Join me in wallowing in all of it. And then take a look at all the other grand stuff out there right now, or coming down the pike. Along with “Fables,” read “Kill Shakespeare” and “The Unwritten,” “Memorial,” “Mice Templar” and “Mouse Guard.” Read “The Stuff of Legend” and “Castle Waiting” and all the other gems in the same general category. It’s the new age of old time stories. Along with “Once,” I’m looking forward to “Snow White and the Huntsman” and “Mirror, Mirror.” There can’t be enough different takes on this character, which very much mirrors the way it worked in the olden days. The Brothers Grimm didn’t collect one version of every folktale; they discovered dozens of versions of each one, because it’s the nature of folklore to be altered to suit every different folk who wants to make use of it. Why should today be any different?
by Bill Willingham is a novel based on Willingham’s 
comic book series (which if you haven’t read, then you should). The basic concept is that the characters that the fables are based on are real and have had to relocate to our Earth from their original homelands due by The Adversary who has taken over all their homelands. The comic book series is the ongoing adventures of these Fables (Snow White, Prince Charming, Big Bad Wolf, Beauty and the Beast) in their hidden neighborhood known as Fabletown. Peter and Max is the first prose novel based in this world and ABC is working on a