FABLES FOR JAPAN, Book 1 Official Release Date:

Coming

September 10th, 2011

The Countdown to release begins! 

124 pages!

28 different contributors!

24 Amazing stories and poems from 
writers and artist around the world!

All for only $3.95!

All proceeds go to Charity!

Fables for Japan, Book 1 will be available for download to your computer, iPad, iPhone, Android, or most any mobile device. Check back her on the 10th for the official download link!

Thank you for your support.

The Contributors: Mark Badger

Website: http://markbadger.org/

Mark Badger spent some of the eighties and nineties learning how to draw, be a political activist, how to be a parent, and now he’s finally figuring out how to be a cartoonist. He draws comics, programs for money in Oakland, CA., and teaches web tech in San Francisco. Mark is currently working on an adaptation of Julius Caesar using Jack Kirby as his creative guide and is thinking of changing his middle name to HUBRIS.

Mark has written and illustrated, perhaps, the most bizarre story for Fables for Japan, A surreal retelling of a Buddhist ghost story with Hokusai swipes called Bad Sushi.

Here's a sample:

Here are some other books from Mark:
  

The Contributors: Leanne Buckley

Webpage: leannebuckley.com
Twitter: @envertigo

Leanne Buckley has been a professional illustrator, artist, and designer, for over ten years and lives in Atlanta. She began illustrating for the line of 'Exalted' role-playing games published by White Wolf, and has provided artwork for such clients as Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Image Comics, Catalyst Games, Wildfire LLC, and Posthuman Studios. In her free time, she is working a line of prints showcasing personal work and character designs

Leanne provided a beautiful illustration for the story "Hiroko's Tale" written by Jeff Baker.

 

Official Fables for Japan Press Kit

Check out the new Fables for Japan Press Kit. There you'll find the official Press Release, a Promo Poster, and some Flyers that can be freely distributed.

Thanks

--Jason Temujin Minor

The Contributors: Tom Peyer

Website: http://www.twitter.com/TomPeyer

Tom Peyer has been writing comic books since you were in diapers, so give him a break. He lives in Syracuse, NY.

Tom has indeed been making comic for quite a long time but, in spite of this, we were lucky enough to have him write a great short story for Fables for Japan, called BUNBUKU CHAGAMA. Federico Dallocchio provided the artwork and MaGnUs (Martín A. Pérez) the lettering.

Here are just some of the books Tom has done.

    

The Contributors: Ross Carnes

Websites: http://rhcarnesstoryteller.webstarts.com/ and http://rosscarnesart.wordpress.com/

Ross Carnes began as an illustrator 40 years ago in Houston, and continued in Austin in 1980. Clients have included: Uniroyal, American General Ins., Intel, Motorola, TPWD, and TXDOT. Recently curtailed by crippling health issues, he turned to writing, finding a way to create art. 

Ross has just completed his first novel and is looking for publishers. 

Ross donated a beautiful painting for the poem "Resurrection" by Patricia Morse-McNeely.

For a step by step of how Ross created this piece, check his blog here at Rosscarnesart.

The Contributors: Mary Elizabeth Hall

Website: http://maryelizabethhall.com/.

Mary Elizabeth Hall holds degrees from Cornell and Syracuse Universities, and has a professional background in human services and program management. Her true passion, however, is for writing and editing. She’s published community research, contributed revisions to I Can Read It (1998) for Sonlight Curriculum, and writes articles for Home Educating Family magazine. Her first novel, Amberly, was released in August, 2012. Mary and her husband Matt live in South Carolina, where she home educates their three daughters, wipes up many messes, and writes.

Mary has written a beautiful story called "Healer" and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Kristen, provided the illustration. Here is a sample.

Healer

By Mary Elizabeth Hall

Springtime brings new life

Death of winter overcome,

Sorrow turns to hope

     The Emperor lay dying. Ayame, his only daughter, rested her forehead upon his chest.

     “Emi-Shou, the Bird of Healing, will come,” he whispered as he turned his head toward the terrace doorway, where bare trees arched fragile limbs toward the winter sky.

     Ayame wept. Her elder brothers, evil of heart and desperate for their father’s power and wealth, had released the palace cats to drive away Emi-Shou.

     Many days passed, and Spring wove her jade silk tapestry over the mountains. Ayame knelt beside her father and watched the slow rise and fall of his breathing. One morning, a flutter drew her gaze to the terrace. Emi-Shou! The brilliantly colored bird clutched at the railing with one claw, then another. Emi-Shou fell from the terrace and into a barberry bush below. Ayame rushed out and down the steps. She lifted the wounded creature from the bush and brought her inside.

     “O Emi-Shou!” she cried. The Healing Bird was a golden dove with trailing plumes and ruby feathered crest. Delicate ink brush strokes lined azure eyes like those of a waxwing. The bird’s chest trembled.

     “My heart desires to heal your father.” Emi-Shou’s thin voice fractured like a porcelain teacup. “But I cannot. That which is most precious to me has been taken by the Water Dragon who dwells within the Mount, and feline claws have—”

     “What are you doing?” Ayame’s third eldest brother, Saburou, burst into the room.

     “No!” Ayame shouted as he strode toward her. She clutched the bird to her chest.

     “Out with it!” The young man’s face was hard as flint as he snatched Emi-Shou from her grasp and hurled the bird away, between blossoming plum trees.

     Ayame clutched her face and slumped to the floor with a wail. 

     “And out with you as well.” Saburou yanked his sister up by her arm, then hastened her toward another room. He dumped her on a floor mat then latched the door. Whispers in the corridor a moment later left Ayame with no doubt that her seven brothers were conferring. The hissing voice of her eldest brother, Tarou, stood out among the rest.

     “She must die...”