Category: | Our Mythical Childhood Survey

Graham Annable, Gregory Benton, R.O. Blechman, Vera Brosgol, Graham Chaffee, Eleanor Davis, Chris Duffy, Ulises Farinas, Tom Gauld, Sophie Goldstein, Charise Harper, Jaime Hernandez, John Kerschbaum, James Kochalka, Braden Lamb, Roger Langridge, Simone Lia, Jennifer L. Meyer, Corinne Mucha, Mark Newgarden, George O'Connor, Shelli Paroline, Israel Sanchez, Robert Sikoryak, Ricardo Siri, Maris Wicks, Keny Widjaja

Fable Comics

Fable Comics is a fun and diverse collection of comics retelling fables in a lively, modern style. As many author/illustrators were involved, the fables have many different visual styles; many are rendered in a simplistic or impressionistic style, others are highly illustrated. The majority are told in a humorous tone. Most of the fables are from Aesop, while some are from other traditions. The origin of the story is given as a note at the beginning of each story, e.g. "From Aesop", &q(...)

literary

YEAR: 2015

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aesop Aesop’s Fables Afterlife Architecture Athens Cerberus Charybdis Fable Gods Greek mythology Greek philosophy Hades Hermes Hermes' winged boots Katabasis Mercury Mythology Olympus Phaedrus Poseidon Reception of classical antiquity Underworld Zeus

Wiktor Gomulicki , Barbara Kuropiejska-Przybyszewska

Memories of the Blue School Uniform [Wspomnienia niebieskiego mundurka]

Pułtusk, a small Polish town, not far from Warsaw (part of the Polish territory under Russian rule), 1859–1864. The plot is based on autobiographical facts from the author’s school years. The main character – Witold Sprężycki, porte-parole of the author, attends a local state school where classes are overcrowded and corporal punishment is commonplace. Each chapter describes another adventure or aspect of the students’ relationship with the teachers. They excel in various (...)

literary

YEAR: 1906

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Architecture Art Caryatids Cato the Elder Classical Architecture Colossus of Rhodes Cornelius Nepos Elegy Eutropius Fable Famous maxims Hephaestus Heracles / Herakles Hercules Jupiter Latin Nero Orestes Ovid Phaedrus Philosophy Poetry Political thought Pylades Saturn Stoicism Teaching Latin Triton

George O'Connor

Olympians (Series, Book 10): Hermes: Tales of the Trickster

This enjoyable graphic novel is the most humorous one of the Olympians series to date. The novel takes as its frame the myth of the killing of Argus Panoptes. A traveller and his dog arrive at the field that the giant, Argus, guards, where he keeps his many eyes on a lone white cow. The traveller begins to tell the giant stories:The first is the story of the dogs' complaint. Hermes arranged for dogs to make their complaint to Zeus about being under human bondage. But they "voided their (...)

literary

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aesop Aesop’s Fables Afterlife Aphrodite Apollo Architecture Ares Artemis Athena/ Athene Centaurs Cerberus Dionysus Divination Egypt Fable Faun Gods Greek language Greek music Greek mythology Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hermes' winged boots Horus Lernaean Hydra Lyre Mercury Mythology Nymphs Olympus Ovid Ovid Metamorphoses Pan Penelope Phaedrus Reception of classical antiquity Zeus Zeus' Throne

Rachel Bright, Jim Field

The Lion Inside

The Lion Inside is a reworked retelling of the Aesop's Fable, The Lion and the Mouse. It is a highly illustrated work in rhyming couplets. The tale opens by introducing both characters; the Lion lives atop a large rock formation, the Mouse in a "tinyful house" underneath. Mouse is small; other animals barely notice that he is there, which makes him sad. Lion, on the other hand, is very loud and ensures that all the animals know how loudly he can roar, how tough he is, how strong he(...)

literary

YEAR: 2015

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Aesop Aesop’s Fables Fable Phaedrus

Ignacy Krasicki

The Raven and the Fox [Kruk i lis]

The Raven and the Fox is one of the original fables by Aesop. The main characters of the fable are a cunning fox and a vain raven with a tidbit in its beak. In order to get the food (most authors, incl. Krasicki, mention a piece of cheese, however, one of the preserved versions of Aesop’s fable mentions meat), the fox uses a ruse. Knowing that the raven is greedy for compliments, the fox encourages him to sing. As the raven begins to caw, the tidbit fells from its beak straight into the fo(...)

literary

YEAR: 1802

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Aesop Animals and historical persons as characters Fable Phaedrus

Rachel Bright, Jim Field

The Squirrels Who Squabbled

The Squirrels who Squabbled is a reworked retelling of the Aesop's Fable, The Ants and the Grasshopper. It is a highly illustrated work in rhyming couplets. The tale opens with the arrival of Autumn and news that all the animals are getting ready "for bed", i.e. for hibernation and Winter. The only exception, pictured blithely playing on a swing, is "Spontaneous Cyril", the squirrel. The reader learns that all the other animals have been busy gathering supplies to see the(...)

literary

YEAR: 2017

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Aesop Aesop’s Fables Fable Phaedrus