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AGE OF BRONZE,
the continuing graphic novel series by Eisner Award-winning
cartoonist Eric Shanower, presents the complete story
of the world-famous War at Troy, freshly retold for the 21st century.
All the drama of the ancient and thrilling tradition unfolds before your eyes, with all
the familiar people and events of the Trojan War.
Age of Bronze is first serialized in individual issues of the comic book series. The story is then collected into volumes as graphic novels. The first several of seven projected volumes are available now. Volume one is titled A THOUSAND SHIPS, volume two is titled SACRIFICE, and the first part of volume three is titled BETRAYAL.
Click here to read the complete first comic book issue of Age of Bronze, the Story of the Trojan War, online at the website of the publisher, Image Comics. These are the first 20 pages of A THOUSAND SHIPS (Age of Bronze, vol. 1).
Click here to read a 22-page high resolution excerpt from SACRIFICE (Age of Bronze, vol. 2). This is a large PDF file viewable with Adobe Acrobat.
Primary sources for Age of Bronze's version of the Trojan War story begin with Homer's Iliad,include major and minor works from classical Greece and Rome, many Medieval European sources, and continue through Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and beyond. The art of Age of Bronze draws upon the archaeological excavations of the places where the story took place:
Mycenae, Knossos, and Pylos, among others, and especially Troy itself.
While everything in Age of Bronze is based on existing sources, whether mythological or archaeological, the final product is a version for the 21st century. All the comedy, all the tragedy, all the wide canvas of human drama of the Trojan War unfolds within the pages of Age of Bronze. Come along for the ride!
Web interviews with Eric Shanower
can be found at:
Silver Bullet Comics (text)
Comic Book Resources (text)
Fist Full of Comics and Games (audio)
Archaeology Magazine extended interview (text)
Comics Corner (text)
The Comics Journal excerpt (text)
Big Monkey Comics (text)
World Famous Comics interview (text)
Sequential Tart interview (text)
Ultrazine interview (text)
Minuit/Dix (audio in French)
PlaneteBD interview (text in French)
Comicus interview (text in Italian)
BDesenhada interview (text in Portuguese)
Theater of Ideas (text) an interview
about Oz illustration
TopTwoThreeFilms (text) an interview
related to the film
"Adventures into Digital Comics"
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Behold! The Walls of Windy Ilios: A Cartoonist's Adventures in Troy
Eric Shanower's photo-illustrated report on a visit to Troy
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ERIC SHANOWER
Winner of the 2003 Will Eisner Comics Industry Award
Best Writer/Artist
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Hungry Tiger Press.com and Eric Shanower.com.
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CURRENT NEWS
Click for UPCOMING APPEARANCES
13 August 2010 - Tiger and Brick interview Skottie Young and me about our Oz comics for Marvel. Click here.
27 July 2010 - Age of Bronze-related debuts at San Diego Comic Con International were the Image Comics 2010 San Diego Comic-Coin Yearbook, in which I drew a pin-up of Kassandra lamenting burning Troy, and The Myth of Aeacus by Charles "zan" Christensen, a retelling of the story of Achilles's grandfather with illustrations by me. The Image Comics Yearbook was exclusive to the convention, so if you want a copy of that you'll have to find it on the secondary market. Zan will be selling The Myth of Aeacus at various other events. I'll try to keep you updated on that one.
23 July 2010 - Tonight Skottie Young and I won 2010 Eisner Awards for Marvel Comics' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in BOTH categories it was nominated in--Best Publication for Kids and, quite unexpectedly, Best Limited Series! Big thank you to everyone who supported the project!
18 July 2010 - Comic Con International 2010 begins next Wednesday evening, July 21, and runs through Sunday evening, July 25, at the San Diego Convention Center on Harbor Drive in downtown San Diego, California. This year's annual convention celebrating everything comics and pop culture will, I'm sure, prove to be every bit as festive, crazy, and delightful as past years. I'll be, as usual, at the Hungry Tiger Press booth #2008, so if you're attending, brave the crowds and come say hi to me there. We'll have new comics and books for sale, including The Myth of Aeacus by zan and me, The Treasure of Karnak by L. Frank Baum with decorations by me, and a slew of Oz stuff both older and newer like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz graphic novel by Skottie Young and me and both volumes of IDW's Little Adventures in Oz by me. Friday evening I'll be at the Eisner Award ceremony to present the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award to this year's winner and to see if Marvel's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Sunday Press's Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz win in any of the categories they're nominated. Sunday tickets for Comic Con International are still available! Details here.
13 July 2010 - Click here for an exclusive preview of the final issue of Marvel Comics's adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz with script by me, art by Skottie Young, and color by François Beaulieu.
1 July 2010 - Both volumes of my Little Adventures in Oz from IDW as well as Skottie Young's and my graphic novel adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from Marvel Comics made the Core List of Good Comics for Kids presented at the American Library Association conference last week. Lots of other great kids' comics made the list, too. Click here to see the full list.
28 June 2010 - New Free Feature: Age of Bronze Desktop Wallpaper. It's Herakles from the cover of the third issue of Age of Bronze--and he's coming for you! Click here or on the Free Features menu link at left.
28 June 2010 - Comics Bulletin reviews Age of Bronze #30. Click here to read Penny Kenny's words of wisdom.
27 June 2010 - New Free Feature: The Siege of Troy by John O'Keeffe. Click here for the full script of this "Grand Heroic, Serio-Comic, Tragic Spectacle" originally published in 1795. Or click on the Free Features menu link at left for a complete list of free features.
16 June 2010 - New issues on sale today! Age of Bronze #30. The Marvelous Land of Oz #7. Little Adventures in Oz Volume 2, reprinting "The Forgotten Forest of Oz," "The Secret Island of Oz," and "The Blue Witch of Oz." All subscription copies of Age of Bronze #30 have already been mailed.
12 June 2010 - For a five-page preview of Age of Bronze #30, click here. The issue goes on sale next Wednesday, June 16.
11 June 2010 - Here's a preview of The Marvelous Land of Oz #7 by Skottie Young and me, on sale next Wednesday, June 16.
9 June 2010 - Issue #30 of Age of Bronze will go on sale next Wednesday, June 16. Click here for a 3-page pdf sample.
9 June 2010 - Last week I was a guest on Comic Book Club, the live on stage comedy comic book review show in New York City. You can listen to the podcast of the show here.
23 May 2010 - The newest free feature on the Age of Bronze website is Penthesilea, the 1905 Trojan War poem by Laurence Binyon.
23 May 2010 - The Marvelous Land of Oz #6 is now on sale. See a preview here.
16 April 2010 - Click here for a preview of issue #5 of The Marvelous Land of Oz by Skottie Young and me, adapted from the book by L. Frank Baum.
8 April 2010 - The 2010 Eisner Award nominations have been announced. Projects I worked on received four nominations total, two for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from Marvel Comics and two for Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz from Sunday Press. Click here for the complete list of nominations. The award ceremony will be in July at Comic Con International in San Diego.
14 Jan 2009 - Image Comics will be releasing a new printing of Age of Bronze #1 in their series of Image Firsts. Priced at $1.00 each, Image Firsts are aimed at attracting new readers to Image Comics's most popular titles. The new Age of Bronze #1 will be on sale April 14. Details here.
12 Jan 2010 - Marvel's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in its sixteenth week on the New York Times Graphic Books bestseller list!
10 Nov 2009 - Click here to see a sample penciled page from the upcoming Age of Bronze #30. You need Adobe Acrobat to view this pdf file.
3 Nov 2009 - Click here to see a free online sketchbook of images by Skottie Young from our forthcoming Marvel comic series The Marvelous Land of Oz based on the book by L. Frank Baum. Commentary by Skottie and me accompanies the sketches. You can only see this material online. Issue #1 of The Marvelous Land of Oz goes on sale Wednesday, Nov. 4--and so does Age of Bronze issue #29!
28 Sept 2009 - Here's Zack Smith's Newsarama interview with Skottie Young and me about our next Oz project.
21 April 2009 - For a Spanish interview with me by Eduardo Seradilla about Age of Bronze, Oz, and other stuff, click here. You may need to scroll down.
7 April 2009 - Here's Tom Spurgeon's review of Age of Bronze #28 at The Comics Reporter.
21 March 2009 - Lots of stuff to post today:
"Age of Bronze: Some Thoughts and Sketches" is a ten-page article of mine published in Yikas: A Journal of Art, vol. 1, issue 1. The text is similar to the "Afterword" of A Thousand Ships and the text of Age of Bronze: Behind the Scenes, but many of my accompanying sketches are newly published, including character designs for Helen and Patroklus, costume design for Deidamia, sketches for the armor of Achilles and three other major characters, and step-by-step art construction for a page in Age of Bronze #27. A copy of Yikas is $7.98, available by Phone, email, or in person from:
Book Loft
Kathy Mullins
1680 Mission Dr
Solvang, CA 93463
Telephone: 805-688-6010
Fax: 805-688-9930
Email: mail@bookloftsolvang.com
Website: bookloftsolvang.com
And speaking of Age of Bronze: Behind the Scenes, it's out of print and no longer available through this website. The expanded French version L'age de Bronze: les Coulisses de L'oeurve is still available, however. Click here for ordering info.
At the end of February I was a guest on Fanboy Planet. Click here and scroll down to Podcast #130 to listen.
24 October 2008 - Listen here to the October 14 performance of Comic Book Club Live at People's Improv Theater in New York City. I was a guest along with Jacob Chabot.
18 September 2008 - Here's my latest interview. It's conducted by Edward Einhorn, several of whose books I've illustrated. It's mostly about Oz, but Age of Bronze gets mentioned a couple times.
20 August 2008 - Click here to listen to "The Future of the Comic Pamphlet," a recording by Jamie Coville of a panel I participated in last month at San Diego's Comic Con International. At this point I don't remember exactly what I said. Hope it wasn't too embarrassing.
31 May 2008 - Click here for a lovely review of Age of Bronze by John Hodgman in The New York Times Book Review. It starts about halfway down the page.
Nov 2007 -
AT LAST! Betrayal, the third Age of Bronze book, published by Image Comics, is NOW AVAILABLE. Both a $27.99 hardcover [ISBN 978-1-58240-845-3] and a $17.99 paperback [ISBN 978-1-58240-755-5] edition are waiting to be read by you. It's available here now through this website and arrives in comic book stores November 28. Betrayal collects issues #20-#26 of the comic book serialization. Here's the cover:
NEWS ARCHIVES
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT AGE OF BRONZE
Wow! Celebrated author Ursula LeGuin likes Age of Bronze! You want proof? Click here and scroll to the bottom.
"History never read so good."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Besides being beautifully drawn and intelligently, even intellectually, composed, it is archaeologically accurate--by those qualities it's better than any film I've ever seen on Bronze Age Greece. . . ."
-- Archaeology
". . . the story also has many amazing scenes for an artist . . . and Shanower makes the most of them."
--Publishers Weekly
". . . a feast for those new to Homeric tradition and modern archaeology as well as those who simply love mythology. . . . Shading, texture, and Shanower's use of a single image across several panels give depth to the black-and-white cartoon artwork that carries the story."
--Booklist
"Shanower may not create the poetry of The Iliad but he tells a story in a straightforward, clean manner that will keep you reading through one sitting."
--Andrew D. Arnold, Time.com
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