fairytales

Image via Netflix Netflix has never been shy in its desire to become the number one studio in Hollywood – regardless of its content only very rarely seeing the inside of a theater – so it’s not all that much of a surprise the streaming service is determined to take Disney on at its own game and win. Just this weekend, Nimona debuted to rave reviews from critics and bumper viewership figures on the most-watched charts, making the Mouse House look like it missed a trick canceling the project following the Fox…

Crafting a story can feel a bit like solving a puzzle. Sometimes you know your point A and point B, but it’s that space between that can be difficult to fill in. How do your characters arrive at the next big plot beat? What needs to happen to get them there in a way that feels natural? Each word becomes a puzzle piece that needs to be carefully placed in order to make it all make sense. That’s the exact idea at the heart of Storyteller, the latest release from publisher Annapurna Interactive, The unique puzzle game…

Recasting a fairytale is like shattering an old mirror. In hammering at the tale’s surface, in picking up the splinters and reconfiguring them, riveting new reflections of our own era appear. “You shift time and location,” author Helen Oyeyemi says of her reconfigured fairytales, “to see what holds true, and why or why not.” Contemporary retellings provide another deep pleasure, of revisiting one’s childhood mind, flickers of that brighter, less inhibited self before the dimming constraints of adulthood.My new novel, Take…

Welcome to the Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up for November 14, 2022. This week at Stately Beat Manor we have some campaigns that are in the last two weeks of their crowdfunding windows and can use your help. From time-traveling stories and fantasy adventures to tales of conversion therapy and neurodiversity, these mid-November crowdfunding campaigns will pull on your heartstrings in unexpected ways. Read on to check them out! Time Dog and Other Atomic Fairytales Creators: Vincent KingsGoal: $4,000End Date: December 1,…

Welcome to this week’s comics crowdfunding round-up! It’s the first week of October, so that means we have some spooky campaigns for you! Check them out!  Renee Leshner: Conqueror of the Evil Eye Creators: Justin Duerr (writer/biographer) and Renee LeshnerGoal: $4,500End Date: October 31, 2022Goodies: Digital or print copy; signed by the author/publisher and hand-numbered, limited to 50 copies; international shipping; and original art An art book and biography of Philadelphia-based mediumistic visionary artist Renee…

Geralt of Rivia is getting another new comic book with some familiar foes. Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics and CD Projekt Red, Polygon can exclusively reveal that the new series will follow the famous Witcher on a fairytale-inspired adventure. The Witcher: The Ballad of Two Wolves will have four issues, the first of which will release later this year on Dec. 21. The story starts as many Witcher tales do, with Geralt being summoned to a new town to deal with a monster problem. In the town of Grimmwald, Geralt learns of…