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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 for the first issue of Age of Bronze "Seen," the enhanced digital edition of Age of Bronze, the app for iPad available in the iTunes store, only 99 cents. Enhancements include a Reader's Guide for each page, full color art, and a discussion forum. Further issues released monthly.
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:
Anient Rome Refocused (audio)
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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ERIC SHANOWER
Winner of the 2003 Will Eisner Comics Industry Award
Best Writer/Artist
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CURRENT NEWS
Click for UPCOMING APPEARANCES
28 Jan 2012 - Click here to see my sketches of San Diego Opera's current production of Salome by Richard Strauss.
25 Jan 2012 - Issue #3 of Age of Bronze "Seen" for iPad is now available. If you have the app already installed, download from there. Otherwise, click here for the link.
25 Jan 2012 - Absolute Promethea Volume Three, the final collection of Alan Moore and J. H. Williams's excellent comics series, was published recently by DC/Vertigo Comics. This beautiful book includes my introduction and the two Promethea spin-off "Little Margie" stories I drew.
14 Jan 2012 - I'll be speaking about my Oz comics, illustration, and writings at the Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94105, from 7 PM to 9 PM on Thursday, January 19, 2012. This presentation is in conjunction with the museum's current exhibit of Wizard of Oz comics. Details here.
11 Nov 2011 - This link is pretty much just what it says it is: "Forty Pages of Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze in Color." Just the color. (Warning: Heavy load time--at least on my computer.)
11 Nov 2011 - The Wizard of Oz exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco opens tomorrow, Nov. 12, and runs through April 15, 2012. A generous selection of my art from various Oz comics, both old and new, will be on display, along with many other Oz comics. Click this link for details.
10 Nov 2011 - I'll be speaking about Age of Bronze to the Classics Department at Yale University next Monday, along with Thomas Beasley, author of the Age of Bronze "Seen" Readers' Guide, and Karen Green, Columbia University librarian. See the Upcoming Appearances link above for details.
3 Nov 2011 - PinkRaygun.com sings the praises of John Dalliare, the colorist of Age of Bronze "Seen."
14 Oct 2011 - Age of Bronze "Seen," the enhanced digital edition of Age of Bronze, is available today as an app for iPad in the iTunes store for just 99 cents for the first issue. Click here. Enhancements include a Reader's Guide, full color art, and a discussion forum. Further issues released monthly.
7 Oct 2011 - Age of Bronze goes digital! Starting October 14, Age of Bronze "Seen" will be released for iPad. Issue #1 will cost just 99 cents, and issues will be released monthly. Age of Bronze "Seen" will have all the enhanced features you could ask for--full color, a Readers Guide discussing the story sources and period detail, maps, a character guide, links, and a forum for readers to discuss their thoughts and reactions. Here's an interview with Yale classics scholar Tom Beasley, the author of the Readers Guide for Age of Bronze "Seen." If you're on Facebook, check out the official Age of Bronze Facebook page for a preview and like the page while you're there. And don't worry, print readers, the comic book serialization and the graphic novels aren't going away. Digital Age of Bronze is simply yet another way to make my version of the Trojan War available to readers everywhere.
30 Sept 2011 - Ozma of Oz adapted by Skottie Young and me from L. Frank Baum's book and published by Marvel Comics just debuted at #4 on the New York Times graphic novel best seller list! Check it out here.
23 Sept 2011 - Marvel Comics's Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz #1, adapted by Skottie Young and me from L. Frank Baum's book, goes on sale next Wednesday, Sept. 28. Skottie and I and the rest of the creative team have been doing these Oz adaptations for several years now, but the energy for Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is stronger than ever. I am very excited to know what readers think of it. Click here for an interview with Skottie and me and a preview of the first issue.
22 Sept 2011 - It's taken me awhile to get around to posting this, but here, at last, is the link to the video of a presentation I gave on Age of Bronze at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens last fall. Thanks again to Jack Davis and Shari Stocker for inviting me. Also on the program were the creators of the award-winning Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiades and Alekos Papadatos.
15 Sept 2011 - Little Adventures in Oz, written and illustrated by me, and published by IDW, is being released in digital editions. The first volume is available now. Just click here to go to the Apple iBooks store.
15 Sept 2011 - Marvel Comics's graphic novel of Ozma of Oz by Skottie Young and me, from the book by L. Frank Baum, was published last week and is on sale now. The hardcover collection includes the entire story, plus all the covers and some sketches. If you buy your copy from Hungry Tiger Press here, you can request my signature in your copy.
25 July 2011 - Spent the last few days at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con. Skottie Young and I won an Eisner Award for The Marvelous Land of Oz. Age of Bronze gained some attention, including this blog from archaeologist and art historian Candace Weddle.
5 July 2011 - Well, what do you know? I got my first Harvey Award nomination! It's for The Marvelous Land of Oz. Click here for the complete 2011 nomination list.
15 May 2011 - I did drawings at San Diego Opera's current production of Carmen. See them here.
21 April 2011 - A digital edition of Age of Bronze began publication today in the Spanish version from Azake Ediciones. La Edad de Bronce is available for download at the Koomic website. Click here. The first ten pages are also available as a free sample.
19 April 2011 - Here's a short blog by VoVat about my character Flicker, who appears in several of my Oz projects.
7 April 2011 - Eisner Award nominations for 2011 are out. Marvelous Land of Oz is nominated as Best Adaptation from Another Work, and Skottie Young is nominated as Best Penciller/Inker!
17 Jan 2011 - Classics and Comics is a new book about the use of mythology in modern comics. It's edited by George Kovacs and C.W. Marshall, published by Oxford University Press, and includes a 12-page story by me about the creation and reception of Age of Bronze. It has a lot more, too--essays about Wonder Woman and Sandman, essays about mythology in the work of Jack Kirby and the work of Frank Miller, and an essay--not by me!--about sex and love in Age of Bronze. You can buy it through any standard bookseller, whether online or off. Or through this handy link directly to Oxford University Press.
4 Jan 2011 - Here's an interview with me on David-Wasting-Paper. It tends toward practical artistic matters. If you're reading this after January 4th, you'll have to scroll down.
4 Jan 2011 - Here's a positive review of Age of Bronze #31 at Comics Bulletin.
20 Nov 2010 _ Click here for a 5-page pdf sample from Age of Bronze #31. On sale toward the end of next month.
2 Nov 2010 - Here's another French review of L'age de Bronze: Trahison Deuxieme Partie (Age of Bronze: Betrayal Part Two), this one from Scenario.com.
29 Oct 2010 - Click here for an interview with me about L'age de Bronze: Trahison Deuxieme Partie (Age of Bronze: Betrayal Part Two). It's in the online version of the French newspaper Sud Ouest so the text is in French.
27 Oct 2010 - Click here to read a rave review of L'age de Bronze: Trahison Deuxieme Partie (Age of Bronze: Betrayal Part Two) from PlaneteBD.com. The review's in French.
27 Oct 2010 - Marvel Comics's The Marvelous Land of Oz adapted by me from L. Frank Baum's book and with exciting art by Skottie Young and colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu is in its third week on The New York Times hardcover graphic novel bestseller list. Wow, lightning strikes twice!
25 Oct 2010 - Trahison Deuxieme Partie (Betrayal Part Two) is out in France, collecting issues #26-#31 of Age of Bronze in French translation. You can see a preview from DigiBiDi just below, or for a larger version that you can actually read, go to the DigiBiDi site and click the orange box that says "Lire les 11 pages."
21 Oct 2010 - I did several interviews during my recent visit to Athens, Greece. Two made the front pages of major Greek newspapers. One, for the internet site Comicdom.com, you can read here--scroll down a little for the English if you don't read Greek. Also, click here for an English-language article (which gets my age wrong) on the lecture I gave at the American School for Classical Studies at Athens. Fellow speakers were Apostolos Doxiadis and Alecos Papadatos, creators of the graphic novel Logicomix, which you can learn a bit about here.
21 Oct 2010 - Here's a Spanish-language interview I did about Oz comics. Scroll down a little till you see the Wizard of Oz cover.
18 Sept 2010 - The hardcover graphic novel collection of Marvel Comics' The Marvelous Land of Oz with script by me and art by Skottie Young is now on sale. And so is the paperback edition of our adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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!
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.
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.
12 Jan 2010 - Marvel's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is in its sixteenth week on the New York Times Graphic Books bestseller list!
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:
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Solvang, CA 93463
Telephone: 805-688-6010
Fax: 805-688-9930
Email: mail@bookloftsolvang.com
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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.
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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