![]() The three female leads project airs of independence but really have no more agency here than in the originals. Similarly, in “Rapunzel” (2003), the title character escapes her mid-1970s flat to run off with (unblinded) pop musician Roger, and in “Sleeping Beauty” (2016), when 16-year-old science-fiction fan Annabel pricks her finger on the needle of a record player, she falls asleep for 1,000 years. In “Cinderella” (2001), the scenes are filled with flamboyant art deco fashions and details the fairy godmother creates a snazzy limo to take young Greta to the ball and rosebud-lipped, pointy-nosed evil stepsisters Ermintrude and Elvira survive unmutilated. ![]() Originally published separately between 20, the stories are massaged in ways that tone down the violence of pre-Disney versions and show off the illustrator’s chops as a caricaturist. ![]() ![]() Three classic fairy tales given 20th- (and 30th-) century settings. ![]()
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