Title Fable Comics Series --- Editor Chris Duffy Illustrator Various Publisher First Second - 2015 First Printing First Second - 2015 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters Too many to list Main Elements Anthropomorphic, Gods

• The Fox and the Grapes - James Kochalka
• The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse - Tom Gauld
• Hermes and the Man Who Was Bitten by an Ant - George O'Connor
• Leopard Drums up Dinner - Sophie Goldstein
• The Belly and the Body Members - Charise Harper
• Lion + Mouse - R. Sikoryak
• Fox and Crow - Jennifer L. Meyer
• The Old Man and Death - Eleanor Davis
• The Boy who Cried Wolf - Jaime Hernandez
• The Crow and the Pitcher - Simone Lia
• Hermes and the Woodsman - George O'Connor
• The Dog and his Reflection - Graham Chafee
• The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat - Maris Wicks
• The Frogs who Desired a King - George O'Connor
• The Hare and the Pig - Vera Brosgol
• The Demon, The Thief, and the Hermit - Keny Widjaja
• The Elephant in Favor - Corinne Mucha
• The Mouse Council - Liniers
• Man and Wart - Mark Newgarden
• The Milkmaid and her Pail - Israel Sanchez
• The Great Weasel War - Ulises Farinas
• The Sun and the Wind - R.O. Blechman
• The Hare and the Tortoise - Graham Annable
• The Grasshopper and the Ants - John Kerschbaum
• The Thief and the Watchdog - Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline
• Hermes and the Sculptor - George O'Connor
• The Hen and the Mountain Turtle - Gregory Benton
• Demades and his Fable - Roger Langridge

From classics like "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Grasshopper and the Ants" to obscure gems like "The Frogs Who Desired a King," Fable Comics has something to offer every reader. Twenty-eight fables from different cultures and traditions are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by twenty-six different cartoonists. Edited by New York Times bestselling Fairy Tale Comics' Chris Duffy, this jacketed hardcover is a beautiful gift and an instant classic.

I picked up this book first and foremost because I'm a fan of George O'Connor's Olympians series, and since Hermes is one of my favorites too, I was happy to see that for some reason O'Connor not only did two, but three fables in this book (everyone else only got one).

While mostly Aesops' fables, there are some from other cultures and a few other tales thrown in for variety. And talking of variety, there is a wide range of art styles here. The most beautiful one was Jennifer L. Meyer's Fox and Crow. This was no comic strip but each page a gorgeous illustration of the dapper fox tricking the vain crow. Other art styles were too childish for my liking. But like any other anthology, there's always the good, the bad, and the ones in between.

In some, the moral of the tale is well spelled out, others are so familiar they didn't need to be, and a few...well, I'll be honest, I'm not sure what the point was.

It was directed too much towards children to make me want to go out and buy the book (I was so happy to find it in the library, especially since when I search the catalog it wasn't there but I stumbled across it on the shelves) but I really did enjoy it. If only I could pull out the ones I really liked...ah well, maybe I'll just read those a second time before I return the book.