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Death & Fables by Daxiong

Owner: Matt Kennedy
Artists: Daxiong (All) , Austin Guo (All)

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Title:	Death & Fables by Daxiong
Artist:	Daxiong (All)
Artist:	Austin Guo (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Commission
Views:	256
Likes on CAF:	17 18
Favorited on CAF:	1
Added to Site:	7/24/2025

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Snow White & Bigby Wolf

Death of the Endless Cosplay Commission

By Daxiong

Ink, watercolor on 11x17 in. Illustration board

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Austin Daxiong Guo (aka @daxiongart ) is currently one of the most successful artists in Chinese and European comics.�He has received a great deal of recognition, including first place at the Shanghai Animation & Comic Competition, Golden Monkey King Award at China international Cartoon and Animation Festival, top honors at the 33rd annual Angoul�me International Comics Festival, and Viewer�s Choice Award on ICON 29. He has illustrated the JSA for DC comics and Star Wars for Marvel.

This commission was for Snow White & Bigby Wolf from the pages of the multiple Eisner Award winning series FABLES, but incorporating a bit of cosplay: either with Death of the Endless as Snow White or Snow White as Death. I provided Several reference images by Fables cover artist James Jean along with depictions of Death by Michael Kaluta, David Finch, and P. Craig Russell as a sort of style guide.

Daxiong chose the Walt Disney version of Snow White as a basis for the cosplay element of the request. Considering the prevalence of apples and their role in Snow White's origin story, the riddle of who is cosplaying who leans a bit more toward Death as Snow than the contrary. The layout is also somewhat reminiscent of a Tarot Card which accentuates the Death inference �though in an admittedly non-traditional form. The Big Bad Wolf, though menacing, is somehow less threatening than the clearly empowered woman whose coyness reads as daring and defiant. The result is a mash-up on multiple levels.

#snowwhite #bigbywolf #fables #deathoftheendless #comicart #comicartfans #vertigojam #daxiong

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