the one hundred nights of hero a graphic novel

As intricate and richly imagined as the works of Chris Ware, and leavened with a dry wit that rivals Kate Beaton's in Hark! A Vagrant, Isabel Greenberg's One Hundred Nights of Hero will capture readers' hearts and minds, taking them through a magical medieval world. Those tales are beautifully depicted here, touching on themes of love and betrayal and loyalty and madness. The two women hatch a plan: Hero, a member of the League of Secret Story Tellers, will distract Manfred by regaling him with a mesmerizing tale each night for 100 nights, keeping him at bay. But what Jerome doesn't know is that Cherry is in love with her maid Hero. In the Empire of Migdal Bavel, Cherry is married to Jerome, a wicked man who makes a diabolical wager with his friend Manfred: if Manfred can seduce Cherry in one hundred nights, he can have his castle-and Cherry. (Dec.A New York Times bestseller An NPR Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 In the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths about the secret legacy of female storytellers in an imagined medieval world. It went on to win the British Comic Awards for best book of the year, and. Greenberg’s primitive woodcut-style illustrations suggest folk art from another planet. On publication we made THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY EARTH Comicbook Of The Month. Above all, it’s a book about the power of storytelling, populating Early Earth with a secret society of storytellers, a grove of memory trees, and women treasuring literacy in defiance of a stern bird god. Greenberg combines elements from fairy tales, children’s books, and folklore from around the world to create an original but teasingly familiar mythos. In her follow-up, she returns to Early Earth, a three-mooned world of myth and magical realism, for a collection of feminist stories about “bad husbands and murderous wives and mad gods and brave women who don’t take shit from anyone.” In a frame story borrowed from The Thousand and One Nights, two women hold off a rapacious man by telling stories within stories, usually about other women getting themselves in and out of danger.

Greenberg’s haunting first graphic novel, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, made her an instant critical darling. Comics & Graphic Novels Comics, Graphic Novels & TPBs Best Selling Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus 1 (DC Comics, September 2018) (3) 58.04 New 52.43 Used Swamp Thing by Nancy A.

The one hundred nights of hero a graphic novel