![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one of the best Gaiman adaptations to come along in some time, and it’s a must-read for lovers of mature fantasy and art nouveau. To compensate for the story’s scant page count, the edition includes notes and sketches from Doran explaining her creative process. The result is a lush, unabashedly sexy fantasy/horror comic with a timeless, mythic feel. Her panels drip with fin de siècle elegance: beads, flowers, flowing hair, Celtic designs, and dense collages of figures, landscapes, and patterns. To match the script’s eerie mood and transgressive themes, Doran draws visual inspiration from Harry Clarke, an early-20th-century illustrator and stained-glass artist with a romantic, decadent sensibility. Accompanied by sumptuous art deco illustrations from Colleen Doran, Snow, Glass, Apples is a work of exquisitely gothic beauty. ![]() Brite in 1997 and a year later in Neil’s short story collection Smoke & Mirrors. ![]() Originally released in prose form in 1994 as a benefit book for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, it was reprinted in the anthology Love in Vein II, edited by Poppy Z. The dark fairy tale recasts “Snow White” from the queen’s point of view in this version, White is a seductive vampire, the dwarfs are sinister “forest folk,” and cutting out the princess’s heart does nothing to stop her wintry reign of terror. Story: Like all good fairy stories Snow, Glass, Apples has had several lives before this. Doran ( Amazing Fantastic Incredible) outdoes herself in adapting Gaiman’s inventive short story into a stylish graphic novella. ![]()
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