Attending a Chicago sci-fi con in the mid 2000's, Peter Gillis decided for once to play the fan and queue up for guest of honour Peter S. Beagle, responsible for two of his favourite books as a teenager, The Last Unicorn and A Fine And Private Place . Gillis recognised Beagle's manager as Connor Cochran, a face from the 70's fandom scene. The three of them hit it off and vowed to work together in the future. When IDW put together an adaptation of his seminal work The Last Unicorn, Peter Gillis was Beagle's first choice to script it. The Last Unicorn #1-6 (2010) Adaptation: Peter B. Gillis Pencils: Renae De Liz Inks & Colours: Ray Dillon I confess to be totally unfamiliar with the 1968 book, or the animated movie adaptation from 1982, so I came into this story cold. This fairytale concerns a unicorn who believes she is the last of her kind. She journeys out of her protected forest into the medieval world, where magic is now all but forgotten, and most people see h...
Being a reasonably chronological retrospective re-read of writer Peter B. Gillis' published comic books.