Ursula K. Le Guin, the prolific and award winning author best known for The Earthsea Cycle and The Left Hand of Darkness recently mentioned Fablewood as part of her series of website articles titled “Some Books I’ve Liked.”

“Finally, an anthology edited by William Ward, Fablewood (Ape Entertainment, 2008.) I just received this book from the editor. Twenty-three or four artists and writers, living in the US, Canada, Finland, worked on these thirteen graphic tales, some only a page or two, some longer. The art styles are extremely various, and so are the subjects, though they all have a fantasy or fabulous element. It’s a contained explosion of visual imagination — really exhilarating. Some of the pieces work better than others, some are difficult, but none of them is inept or stupid, and some are stunners. I think my favorite is a wordless four-pager by Sarah Mensinga called “Fish.”” Read the rest of this entry »