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Primary sources for the story of Age of Bronze 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.
Click here to read the complete first issue of Age of Bronze 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. Recommended Graphic Novels A list for teachers and librarians. Web interviews with Eric Shanower can be found at: Comicdom (text) MangaForever (text) Silver Bullet Comics (text) Comic Book Resources (text) Comicon.com (text) Fist Full of Comics and Games (audio) Strategy First (video) Silver Bullet Comics (earlier than above, text) Bookshelf Comics (text) Suicide Girls (text) PopCultureShock interview (text) Archaeology Magazine extended interview (text) Comics Corner (text) The Comics Journal excerpt (text) Big Monkey Comics (text) The Comic Zone scroll down to 6/21/04 (audio) World Famous Comics interview (text) Sequential Tart interview (text) Ultrazine interview (text) Jazma Online (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 Videos For Family (audio) an interview about Oz TopTwoThreeFilms (text) an interview related to the film "Adventures into Digital Comics"
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5 January 2009 - Happy New Year, everybody! New interview here, mostly about Oz, conducted by Blair Frodelius of The Daily Ozmapolitan. 14 December 2008 - Here is an interview with me about Oz and Age of Bronze by Jay Tomio of Book Spot Central. 11 December 2008 - Issue #1 of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, adapted by me with art by Skottie Young and published by Marvel Comics, went on sale yesterday. Hope you like it! 18 November 2008 - Click here for the Marvel.com interview I did with Kiel Phegley about working on the new Wonderful Wizard of Oz series. 8 November 2008 - The brand new third printing of Sacrifice is available! Now with page numbers! And a few other minor upgrades. 6 November 2008 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Sketchbook is out now at your local comic book emporium--and it's FREE! Inside it you'll find sketches and art by Skottie Young from the upcoming eight-issue comic book adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from Marvel Comics. I wrote the introduction to the sketchbook and some commentary to complement Skottie's artwork. Here's a sketchbook preview. 27 October 2008 - Click here to see the first nine penciled pages of Age of Bronze issue 28. You need Adobe Acrobat to view them. 25 October 2008 - Click here for an interview with me by Jen Contino of The Pulse. It's about the upcoming Marvel Comics adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 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. 1 October 2008 - The music video for the song "Worst Presnadent Ever" by Charlie Imes is here. I appear as a member of the White House Press Corps. Watch "The Movie" version--it's only 13 minutes long--and see me ask "W" the second question. WARNING: if you A) admire President Bush and B) have no sense of humor, DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO! 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. 5 August 2008 - My graphic novel Adventures in Oz is the subject of last Sunday's Unshelved online comic strip. 2 August 2008 - Here's Greg McElhatton's review of Age of Bronze #27. 14 July 2008 - Age of Bronze #27 appeared in stores last week, so it's ON SALE NOW! Here's the cover:  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. 17 April 2008 - The brand new fourth printing of A Thousand Ships is available! Now with page numbers! And a few other minor upgrades. 29 March 2008 - A detailed interview with me about Age of Bronze and Adventures in Oz is here (complete) in English on MangaForever.net, and in Italian both here on Comicsblog.info and here (partial) on AfNews.info which also has a lot more pictures. This coverage is to publicize the new Italian 2-volume edition of my Adventures in Oz. March 2008 - Comicon.com has a new Age of Bronze interview by Christopher Beckett here. Feb 2008 - Salon.com has Douglas Wolk's extremely nice review of Betrayal and Age of Bronze as a whole. I'm particularly gratified by his attention to detail. Wolk is certainly not to blame for the way the commentary after his article quickly descends to the ridiculous. Ah--the age of the internet! Feb 2008 - Here's a short video shot by my friend zan--me at Wondercon at the Moscone Center in San Francisco: Jan 2008 - Age of Bronze: Betrayal makes Honorable Mention here on the Publishers Weekly Comics Week critics' poll for the best graphic novels of 2007. Click here to see a bunch of cartoonists in costume from Hallowe'ens past, including me as a Frank Miller ninja. Dec 2007 - Age of Bronze T-shirts are now available in Double Extra Large (in addition to the rest of our sizes). Choose either "Achilles and Patroklus" or "Paris and Helen" on a colorful regular 100% cotton preshrunk shirt. 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:   CLICK HERE For Free Desktop Wallpaper Akamas and Laodike, issue #26 Part 2 Part 3 A Thousand Ships is now available in Serbo-Croat as Brončano doba: Tisuću brodova from Bookglobe. An article by Ola Hammarlund on Age of Bronze that ran in the magazine Bild & Bubbla back in 2002 is now online here. It's in Swedish, but you can still look at the pictures even if you can't read it.  CLICK HERE For Free Desktop Wallpaper Helen and Menelaus, issue #25 Free Books, publisher of Age of Bronze in Italian, offers a free downloadable Italian version of the Age of Bronze map on their web site. (You need Adobe Acrobat to view it.)  CLICK HERE For Free Desktop Wallpaper The Rape of Ganymedes  CLICK HERE For Free Desktop Wallpaper Paris aims his bow from hiding 
ORDER NOW! AGE OF BRONZE Volume 2: SACRIFICE Best Books of 2004 by the Editors of Publishers Weekly "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 More...  CLICK HERE For Free Desktop Wallpaper Paris holding the Golden Apple |
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