Fairest (comics)

Fairest
Cover for Fairest #1 (May 2012). Art by Adam Hughes.
Publication information
Publisher	Vertigo
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, urban fantasy
Publication date	March 2012 – January 2015
Number of issues	33
Main character(s)	Briar Rose, The Snow Queen, Ali Baba, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, Princess Alder, Reynard the Fox, Nalayani, Prince Charming, Goldilocks, Cinderella
Creative team
Writer(s)	Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Lauren Beukes, Sean E. Williams, Marc Andreyko
Penciller(s)	Phil Jimenez, Shawn McManus, Inaki Miranda, Barry Kitson, Stephen Sadowski, Phil Jimenez, Meghan Hetrick-Murante
Inker(s)	Andy Lanning, Shawn McManus
Letterer(s)	Todd Klein
Creator(s)	Bill Willingham

Fairest, a spin-off of Fables, is a monthly comic series created by Bill Willingham, published by DC's Vertigo. Fairest details the adventures and stories of Fabletown's female citizens and heroines. Willingham has stated that Fairest will comprise a lengthy six-issue story arc followed by a single, standalone issue.

It was announced in November 2013 that the series would end in early 2015.

Wide Awake (issues 1 to 6): Follows the misadventures of Briar Rose and the Snow Queen after the events of Fables #107, in which Briar was stolen away by the goblin army.

Lamia (issue 7): Beauty and Beast star in their own mid-century modern detective story set in the smoky clubs and dive bars of 1940s Los Angeles.

The Hidden Kingdom (issues 8 to 13 ): A prequel to the Fables story arc Legends in Exile. Rapunzel must travel from Fabletown to Tokyo and resolve a mystery from her troubled past.

Aldered States (issue 14): Princess Alder tells her tales of woe to Reynard the Fox.

The Return of the Maharaja (issue 15 to 20): When Nalayani's village is attacked, she is sent on a quest that will transform all of Fables forever.

Fairest in All the Land (graphic novel): Someone is killing the women of Fabletown, and Cinderella has only seven days to discover the identity of the murderer.