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Release #6 - Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: Vol. 1 - The Selfish Giant/The Star Child

50 pages
Issue 5
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: Vol. 1 - The Selfish Giant/The Star Child
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One of comic art's most respected and pioneering artists, well known for his opera adaptations and beautiful fantasy work, P. Craig Russell is in the process of adapting Oscar Wilde's famous fairy tales in a series of landmark volumes. This volume includes The Selfish Giant and The Star Child.\n\nA graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting, Philip Craig Russell has run the gamut in comics. After establishing a name for himself at Marvel, he went on to become one of the pioneers in opening new vistas for comics with, among other works, adaptations of Operas by Wagner (Parsifal) and Mozart (The Magic Flute). His massive adaptation of The Ring of the Nibelung may be his magnum opus. He has also collaborated frequently with Neil Gaiman on Sandman. He has become kn...