They are marked by a blunt acknowledgement that people are not always good and by strongly delineated representation of what goes into making moral decisions - a mix of self-interest, ideals and expediency.įafhrd, a giant red-haired Northern barbarian, and the Gray Mouser, a small, slender Southern thief, are an unlikely pair of companions who wander the world of Nehwon, although they stick mostly to the city of Lankhmar. I mark Leiber as the beginning of what I call "fantasy noir," a tradition that stems from these stories and flows through the books of Michael Moorcock, Glen Cook and Steven Erikson and probably owes as much to 20th-century detective fiction as to Leiber. What set Leiber's stories apart is their assumption of the seamier aspects of life, including a view of morality as mutable. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs in his series of tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, still among the most popular in the genre, as witness their many compilations, including this adaptation in graphic novel form. Leiber himself built on the stories of Robert E. To give proper credit for that involves a trip back through world literature to The Epic of Gilgamesh, with many stops along the way.
The newly combined Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Omnibus trade paperback will be available in comic shops on June 28, 2023, for a retail price of $29.99.Ĭheck out the classic Mignola cover below and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your vintage comic and fantasy : Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouserīy Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola (Marvel Epic, 1991 Dark Horse, 2007)įritz Leiber, among his other accomplishments, invented sword and sorcery. Some of the adapted stories include: “The Price of Pain-Ease”, “Thieves’ House”, “The Cloud of Hate”, and “The Sunken Land”.ĭark Horse Comics previously collected the original Marvel mini-series in 2007 and DC’s Sword of Sorcery issue in a separate edition in 2016. The new collection contains the original DC Comics appearances from the short-lived Sword of Sorcery comic book from 1973 (by Dennis O’Neil, Walter Simonson, Howard Chaykin, and Jim Starlin) and Marvel Comics (Epic Comics to be specific) Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser four issue mini-series from 1990 (by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola). Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser comic adaptations return to print in an over-sized omnibus from Dark Horse Books in June of 2023.
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