#BillWillingham

2025-10-31

“Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny’s the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.” — Bill Willingham, Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland
#QOTD #BillWillingham #Quotation #Freedom #Quote

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-09-28

A quotation from Bill Willingham

BIGBY: Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny’s the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

Bill Willingham (b. 1956) American writer and comics artist
Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland, ch. 9 (2012)

More info about this quote: wist.info/willingham-bill/7935…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwillingham #fables #bigbadwolf #control #disorder #freedom #liberty #order #perfection #sloppiness #tyranny

Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAIvintagefantasyart
2025-09-17

« Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartes Monstres - Série 2 », 1982

Illustrations for monster cards by ,
TSR Inc., 1982

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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAIvintagefantasyart
2025-09-17

« Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartes Monstres - Série 1 », 1982

Illustrations for monster cards by ,
TSR Inc., 1982

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#Fables #volume5 #BillWillingham #UrbanComics #comics #lecture #reecrituredecontes

⚠️ Attention je parle d'un tome 5 : ⚠️

J'ai lu le volume 4 fin 2023. J'ai réservé le volume 5 dans la foulée dans ma médiathèque mais... le seul exemplaire de tout le réseau n'était plus disponible. Un an et demi plus tard, je ne l'attendais plus !
Je dois avouer que j'ai eu du mal à me souvenir de l'histoire et puis, au final, tout est revenu et j'ai repris l'intrigue avec plaisir. J'ai adoré que Cendrillon soit une espionne et qu'elle ait plein de pouvoirs cachés. En revanche Blue Boy m'a beaucoup déçu.
La dernière partie avec le vaisseau constitué de tapis volants m'a énormément plu aussi.
Malheureusement le seul exemplaire du volume 6 semble avoir aussi disparu. Peut-être aurais-je le plaisir de le lire dans 18 mois ?
Gnutellamostly_linux
2023-09-17

Interesting. We need more of this. The Fables now belongs with the community. The opportunities for growth are now limitless.

billwillingham.substack.com/p/

2023-09-16

Pluralistic: #BillWillingham puts his graphic novel series #Fables into the #PublicDomain (15 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net/2023/09/15/fai

I really enjoyed #Fables until #BillWillingham decided to make the “rabidly pro-Israel” (his words) subtext the actual text, so I’m a bit conflicted about Bill and his work.

Nonetheless, this is an interesting development in the relationship between creators and those mega-corporations which only exist to appropriate and artlessly exploit the creations of others. See also #AlanMoore instructing #DC to give all his film royalties to #BlackLivesMatter

#Comics #IP

avclub.com/bill-willingham-say

J. Martingyokusai
2023-09-15

As for Bill Willingham’s Public Domain rationale beyond DC’s repulsive sewer show, I’m fully on board with that.

I’ve always been a copyright minimalist; I’ve always tried to be as generous as I can—short of starving—with CC licensing; and copyright has long since become the cudgel of corporate lawyers and psychotic “estates” against readers & writers anyway.

20 years sounds good to me. Count me in.

billwillingham.substack.com/p/

2023-09-15

It's been 21 years since #BillWillingham launched #Fables, his 110-issue, wide-ranging, delightful and brilliantly crafted author-owned comic series that imagines that the folkloric figures of the world's fairytales are real people, who live in a secret society whose internal struggles and intersections with the mundane world are the source of endless drama.

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A grassy field; in it sits a boxed set of Bill Willingham's Fables comic. The shadow of the Warner Brothers water tower looms ominously across the scene.

Image:
Tom Mrazek (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Open_Field_%2827220830251%29.jpg

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Penguin Random House (modified)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707161/fables-20th-anniversary-box-set-by-bill-willingham/

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Creative! Queer!! Autistic!!!n69n@neurodifferent.me
2023-09-15

This story is fascinating.

"during the contract negotiations for the new issues, their legal negotiators tried to make it a condition of the deal that the work be done as work for hire, effectively throwing the property irrevocably into the hands of DC. When that didn’t work their excuse was, “Sorry, we didn’t read your contract going into these negotiations. We thought we owned it.”

#Fables #BillWillingham #PublicDomain
billwillingham.substack.com/p/

billwillingham.substack.com/p/
As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain
#copyright #billwillingham #dccomics

2023-09-15

es un jefote. Ha pasado la propiedad intelectual de sus a domínio público ante la negligencia de de respetar los términos originales de su contrato.
Ahora cualquiera podrá crear historias de como se le antoje.
vidaextra.com/cultura/no-puedo

Now -> Her_Doing@sunny.gardenHer_Doing@wandering.shop
2023-09-15

After 20 yrs, #BillWillingham releases #Fables into the #PublicDomain. *HE* is still under contract with #DCComics for future work / #royalties / project approval, but the public is not, not bound by #trademarks or #copyright, & free to do as they like with it in #FanFic & other forms of #art.

He's had disputes with DC Comics forever w/o much relief & this is one of his ways to fight back.

billwillingham.substack.com/p/

#trademark #PressRelease #IP #IntellectualProperty #TellTaleGame #CopyrightLaw

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