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Alan Fine is an American businessman who worked at Marvel Entertainment from 1996 until 2019. He was a chief executive and later its president, who worked alongside its former CEO Isaac Perlmutter and chaired the Marvel Creative Committee. Fine attended the University of Rhode Island to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree. Fine later became the senior vice president of marketing for Coleco Toys. At Caldor, a division of The May Department Stores Company, he held the positions of vice president and seasonal merchandise division manager. Fine later joined the management at Kay-Bee Toys as senior vice president and general merchandise manager, then was promoted to president and chief operating officer. In 1996, Fine became employed by Marvel Entertainment Group. Fine became the Toy Biz divisional chief executive officer in 1998 under the newly merged Marvel Enterprises. Marvel Publishing chief executive officer was added to his portfolio in 2004. For Marvel Characters, Inc., the licensing unit of Marvel, he was executive vice president and chief marketing officer. In April 2009, Fine was promoted to executive vice president, Office of the Chief Executive, joining David Maisel, John Turitzin, and Isaac Perlmutter, Marvel CEO, in overseeing all operations. Fine also chaired Marvel's Creative Committee. Fine was later promoted to president, Marvel Entertainment. Fine was later reported to have left Marvel following disputes with Kevin Feige. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Fine (executive), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In the middle of New York City, characters from the old stories and fairy tales live among us in exile. Bill Willingham has taken characters we've grown up with, including Snow White, Bigby (a.k.a the Big Bad) Wolf, Jack Horner, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Boy Blue, the Frog Prince and many more, and spins them into a realistic, modern day setting. The characters we, the people of the Mundane World, thought were fictional have come to the real world to escape The Emperor/The Adversary, a despotic conqueror of tremendous power who rules over The Empire. Eventually, a number of these characters, heroes and villains alike, decide to put aside their differences and stick together in their own community. Old crimes are forgiven by signing a compact which makes them a citizen of this community, and also forbids them from revealing their true nature to the "mundies". Non-human characters who can't afford a spell to make them look human are consigned to a secluded "farm" in Upstate New York. However, those old crimes are rarely, if ever, forgotten; a major early plot point is that Bigby Wolf is banned from said "farm" for all the atrocities he committed before he reformed.
