Age of Bronze | |
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Age of Bronze issue 12 cover art; copyright 2001 by Eric Shanower
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Number of issues | 33 (as of August 2013) |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Eric Shanower |
Artist(s) | Eric Shanower |
Creator(s) | Eric Shanower |
Collected editions | |
A Thousand Ships | |
Sacrifice | |
Betrayal, Part One |
Age of Bronze is an American comics series by writer/artist Eric Shanower retelling the legend of the Trojan War. It began in 1998 and is published by Image Comics.
The series aims to be true to all literary traditions, from Homer's Iliad to Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, as well as to the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean. When complete it is projected to comprise seven volumes.
33 issues, four trade paperback collections and two specials have been published as of 2015.
Shanower won the Eisner Award for best writer/artist in 2001 and 2003, and was nominated for the Ignatz Award for outstanding artist in 1999, for his work on Age of Bronze.