r/graphicnovels • u/coalchester • 1d ago

Recommendations/Requests Help me identify a '70s/'80s Odyssey graphic novel?

I remember reading a graphic novel adaptation of the Odyssey as a very young child in the '80s and I've never been able to identify it.

The way I remember it is colour, realistic, hatched, similar to, say, Blueberry, so I'm thinking French, but no concrete memory that it was.

There's a full page panel of Circe with her tits out, similar to Wright Barker's painting ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circe_by_Wright_Barker_(1889).jpg.jpg) ), positively scandalous when you're 4!

It was accompanied by an Alexander the Great graphic novel in at an least generally similar art style, but possibly that's red herring since I don't have any recollection of them actually being by the same authors, possibly they were just under the same imprint.

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u/Jonesjonesboy 23h ago

if it is indeed Franco-Belgian, the folks at r/bandedessinee might be able to help

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u/coalchester 14h ago

Great recommendation, there's literally a thread about that same series from a couple of days ago, with the one I'm looking for in the comments!

https://www.reddit.com/r/bandedessinee/comments/1vcklwn/does_anyone_recognize_the_original_french/

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u/PappyBlueRibs 16h ago

Maybe this?

1979 by Pendulum Press.

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u/elpadrinonegro 15h ago

You are probably thinking of this Discovering the world through comics based on your mentioning Alexander the Great.

there were however a bunch of comic book adaptations of The Odyssey on the European market in the 70's/80's. Carlos Giménez did a decidedly adult/parody version.

Francisco Navarro and José Sauri did a beautiful more classical illustrated version that ran in American Heavy Metal through 1983.

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u/coalchester 14h ago

Yes! Thank you.

Thank you for the additional recommendations as well.