Jim Henson’s “The StoryTeller” is an anthology containing nine original stories, each one written and illustrated by different individuals or collaborations thereof. Among these are a projected series of graphic novels by Archaia Entertainment of Los Angeles, the first of which was published in November 2011. In the past decade, however, and with the reacquisition of The Jim Henson Company by Henson’s children in 2003, many of Henson’s old franchises are experiencing a happy resurgence. The death of Jim Henson in 1990 marked the loss of a profoundly independent vision of Fantasy, one that many children of the eighties felt - to their imaginations, at least - as a formative blow. In many ways, that series - as well as its four-episode successor, The Greek Myths - still epitomizes the best work of Jim Henson and The Jim Henson Company, bringing together storytelling that is traditional and heartwarmingly earnest, settings that are both bewitching and inviting, and, of course, puppetry that remains unrivaled in an age of special-effects wizardry. It is doubtful whether anyone who watched even one of the nine priceless episodes could forget the image of a knobby-faced John Hurt seated before his fireplace, nor fail to recall the jeering and fretting of his talking dog (voiced by Brian Henson). 112 pp., $19.95 (hardcover).Īlmost twenty-four years have passed since the original series of Jim Henson’s award-winning StoryTeller had its run on American and British television. Jim Henson’s “The StoryTeller” (graphic novel).
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