This was an interesting challenge because the goal was to have four covers which make up one single image. I had the chance to do a series of connecting covers for the upcoming issues and we’ll take a look a the first one here. The most recent series is all mermaid themed, sirens. They’ll take an idea like, giants, for examples, or dragons, and a wide variety of artists and writers will tackle the theme with original fairy tales or adaptions of existing fairy tales. The last few years Archaia has produced a series of themed comics all following the formula of the original show. It’s the perfect set up (and a conceit which lends itself particularly well to sequential storytelling). The “storyteller” himself was played by the late John Hurt and each episode featured the storyteller and his dog hanging out by a fireplace telling stories. It retold a collection of fairy tales and folk tales all with that particular Henson humor, charm, and puppets. Jim Henson’s The Storyteller was a TV series which ran in the late 1980s. One such example is a series of comics is based on Jim Henson’s The Storyteller. It’s a medium uniquely suited to carry a reader beyond the established world of a movie or show and roll back the edges to give a farther glimpse of just what’s out there. However, it’s not a passive thing which moves past you, it’s an active undertaking which asks you to engage with it to move through the story yourself. Like film and TV, it’s an inherently visual medium. (And, as it happens, my first project with Henson and Archaia was a Fraggle Rock comic!) Now I say that because one of the things comics can do amazingly well is take a reader on journey of words and pictures. I’d even go so far as to say that they are the best medium to explore new stories in the Henson world. It’s a special challenge to take something as wild and beloved as those two movies and try to offer an experience or look outside of the films themselves. I’ve always loved getting the chance and I’ve enjoyed my time immensely. Over the years I’ve had the good fortune to illustrate (and write) within the worlds of Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal.
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