![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the nested stories, the tongue-in-cheek commentary and sidenotes, the. Ever wondered what it takes to make a graphic novel look as beautiful as The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg Here you can watch our Senior. One Hundred Nights of Hero was even better than expected. I was really looking forward to another story in this universe of Early Earth, and it's islands and people. Those tales are beautifully depicted here, touching on themes of love and betrayal and loyalty and madness.Īs 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. Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth was such a delight, and one of my favorites of 2016. 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. 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.īut what Jerome doesn’t know is that Cherry is in love with her maid Hero. 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. ![]()
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