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more about #billwillingham Soupytwist: I am so happy to see Rachel Pollack's Unquenchable Fire referenced by another creator. That book blew my mind wide open when I was a teen and I don't ... more » goldfarb: so we're not counting miracles and transubstantiation etc as belonging to the realm of 'the fantasitic'? it's always interesting to see religion slip ... more » Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: Now I know what to write in NaNoWriMo. #fantasy more » ManchuCandidate: Oh boy, I can't wait for the Warlock of Walmart #fantasy more » Purple Dave: There are three basic stances to take on this: 1. As they've said, it has to be an alternate universe, because the public is fully aware of the super... more » Bill-Lee: The position of these authors assumes that there would be interaction between these magical beings and humans. The Harry Potter novels, to use a popul... more » whateley23: It's interesting to me that everyone seems to know what "magic" is, but no one cares to actually define it, except by allusion. Certainly, my own defi... more » RavenNemain: One of the ideas that I really enjoy about the Dresden Files series is that all of these things exist in the "real world" but no one wants to believe ... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: I haven't read a lot of urban fantasy, so I guess this comes as a surprise to me. I always figured the unwritten (and sometimes clearly written) assu... more » DireWombat: Did anyone else here play the 1980s/90s pen-and-paper RPG Shadowrun? Exploring these sorts of issues was always the main draw of that setting for me,... more » PostMarque: i am not sure how to classify it, but the novel "Pattern Recognition" is my idea of Urban Fantasy. No magic, but lots of fantasy. YouTube internet c... more » Chip Overclock: This reminds me of one of my favorite tropes, what I call "they look like us, but they are not us, yet they walk among us". It combines SF/fantasy (de... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Neat! And logically correct. #fantasy more » pH-unbalanced: Actually, if magic were real, it would be technology. And only nerds would want to be wizards. #fantasy more » ShadowStaarr: This is why they always have groups that are supposed to suppress the knowledge of magical and mythical elements in the world. God only knows what we... more » lukeoneil47: I've read the entire run of Fables, but first few pages of this didn't hold my attention. Perhaps I'll try again. I just have different standards when... more » bluehinter: As a long-time Fables fan, the "rushed" ending doesn't surprise me much. Willingham is one of the best things to happen to comics in a long while, but... more » -
#urbanfantasy
Urban Fantasy Always Takes Place In Alternate Worlds
Your urban fantasy automatically takes place in an alternate universe, because the existence of supernatural and magical items would alter society fundamentally. At least, that's what Bill Willingham, Jon Courtenay Grimwood and other panelists at World Fantasy 2009 claimed. More » -
#bookreview
"Peter & Max" Modern Day Fable Brings Back Happily Ever Afters
Funny, smart and full of old-fashioned thrills and spills, Peter & Max: A Fables Novel brings Bill Willingham's long-running comic series to the world of prose in a way that's sure to please old fans and make some new ones.
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