The remarkable story of Marcus Aurelius’ life and philosophical journey is brought to life by philosopher and psychotherapist Donald J. Robertson, in a sweeping historical epic of a graphic novel, based on a close study of the historical evidence, with the stunning full-color artwork of award-winning illustrator Zé Nuno Fraga. — Publisher’s blurb Verissimus is…
Category: Graphic Novels
Sandman Series, Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series features Morpheus and draws on Greco-Roman myths in various ways. Note especially two collections of issues in the series: Fables & Reflections with “The Song of Orpheus” as its central story and The Kindly Ones, composed in tragic mode with the Erinyes as the chorus.
Olympians Series, George O’Connor
In Olympians, a series of twelve graphic novels – one god per book – George O’Connor “draws from primary documents to reconstruct and retell classic Greek myths. But these stories aren’t sedate, scholarly works. They’re action-packed, fast-paced, high-drama fantasy adventures, with monsters, romance, and not a few huge explosions. O’Connor’s vibrant, kinetic art brings ancient…
Age of Bronze Series, Eric Shanower
The Age of Bronze is series of comics about the Trojan war written and illustrated by Eric Shanower. Issues are collected into volumes titled “A Thousand Ships” (the backstory to the Trojan war), “Sacrifice” (obstacles to the launch of the Greek fleet) and “Betrayal” (the war in progress).
The Trojan Women, Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno
“Set in post-war Troy, this wrenching comics-poetry update of Euripides’ tragic play by poet Carson and artist Bruno embodies feminine narratives with wry lyricism. Bruno’s black-and-white illustrations literalize poetic metaphors to whimsical effect. Yet the cleverness and agility of this graphic work amplify its tragedies…. Even the infamous Helen, a shape-shifter who appears as a…
The Iliad: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Gareth Hinds
Gareth Hinds’s The Iliad: A Graphic Novel Adaptation is “a careful, informative and compelling rendering of the Greek epic poem of the legend of the Trojan War — specifically the reverberations of the dispute between the warrior Achilles and King Agamemnon. Hinds’s drawings are vibrant and muscular. The acknowledgments reveal he spent eight months coloring…
Rome West, Justin Giampaoli, Brian Wood, and Andrea Mutti
It’s AD 323 in Rome West by Justin Giampaoli, Brian Wood, and Andrea Mutti. “A fleet of Roman ships is lost in a storm, and they find themselves on the shores of the New World, one thousand years before Columbus. Unable to return home, they establish a new colony, Roma Occidens, radically altering the timeline…
300, Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
300: “Writer-artist Frank Miller and colorist Lynn Varley retell the battle of Thermopylae in [this] exciting and moving graphic novel…. They focus on King Leonidas, the young foot soldier Stelios, and the storyteller Dilios to highlight the Spartans’ awe-inspiring toughness and valor” (amazon.com).
Peplum, Blutch
Blutch, the author of Peplum, considers his work a follow-up to the Satyricon. “[In] action, Blutch’s book abounds: stabbing, stoning, amputation, eye-gouging, sex, seafaring, Attic dance, pirate attacks. Yet these sequences are as artificial as they are visceral, feral, and formal at once. Taking as its title the European term for the sword-and-sandal cinematic subgenre,…
Ody-C, Matt Fraction and Christian Ward
ODY-C, modeled after Homer’s Odyssey, is a psychedelic, gender-broke science-fiction epic that tells the story of three legendary warrior-queens returning home after a centuries-long battle. Odyssia, of fair Ithicaa, encounters everything that can get in her way and slow her homecoming — and realizes with dawning horror that maybe she doesn’t want to return. Queen…