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The Odyssey — The Essential Comic Edition
Homer’s essential homecoming in 88 illustrated panels: a perilous voyage, a household under siege and a recognition that cannot be rushed. Integrated comic dialogue, nine source quotations and an ancient world touched by divine technology.
Ten years at Troy. Ten more trying to come home. Odysseus survives by wit and endurance, while Penelope and Telemachus face the men consuming their household.
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Buy The Odyssey — $9.99One printable English PDF · 48 pages · About 37 MB.
- 44 story pages with 88 sequential panels and integrated speech balloons.
- Nine labelled quotations preserving Samuel Butler’s English wording.
- Character guide, afterword, source notes and linked quotation index.
- Ancient ships, courts and islands meet the extraordinary instruments of the gods.
What this adaptation preserves
Telemachus’s search, Calypso, the Phaeacians, the Cyclops, the winds, Circe, the dead, the Sirens, Scylla, the Sun’s cattle, the disguised return, the bow contest, Penelope’s bed test and the final peace.
This condensed comic follows the essential narrative and its consequences. It does not reproduce the unabridged poem, every inset story or repeated speech.
Reading & printing
Save the PDF for offline reading in your preferred PDF reader. No subscription or special app is required. Print on US Letter at actual size or fit to A4; use long-edge binding for double-sided printing.
Contains captivity, war, death and non-graphic accounts of execution and mutilation. Not a fillable workbook or a certified tagged accessible PDF.
Source & personal use
Based on Homer’s Odyssey in Samuel Butler’s 1900 English prose translation, Project Gutenberg ebook 1727. Labelled excerpts retain that translation’s wording; other dialogue is adapted. Kreateur Media directed and reviewed the adaptation and illustrations, with AI assistance for writing and artwork.
You may save, back up and print this edition for personal use. The public-domain source retains its status. Redistribution or resale of this comic edition requires permission.
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