Odysseus Crew Cartoon
A New Yorker-style cartoon of Odysseus and his crew. The Trojan War was just the beginning of their problems.


















A New Yorker-style cartoon of Odysseus and his crew. The Trojan War was just the beginning of their problems.
Aaron Gwyn: ‘Nikos Kazantzakis published a 33,333-line sequel to The Odyssey in 1938. Its kind of incredible, but Ive only met two people whove read...
Real life vs filter. Top: what the marketing team wants you to see. Bottom: what you actually get in Nolan’s desaturated IMAX.
Lachlan Phillips: “Reading The Odyssey as Homer intended.” George Saoulidis: “Homer intended that you listen to the audiobook.” The Odyssey was an oral tradition. Homer...
France and England THEN: ‘I WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD!’ ‘NO, I WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD!’ France and England NOW: arguing about football. The decline of...
Paul MuadDib: ‘Detail I love in every iteration of The Odyssey is shooting the arrow through the axes. It is such a nebulously described task...
Goblin Moder: ‘In the days before cameras this would have become a legendary local cryptid. In the 21st century we are calling it Jimothy.’ A...
Neolithic Europe, 3200 BC: ‘Look at what I made!’ ‘So obvious you dont even have to tell me.’ Archaeologists today: ‘??? What is this ???’...
King Minos: ‘See you later honey, dont do something regrettable while I am away.’ Pasiphae: ‘…’ The origin of the Minotaur. Classic Greek mythology.
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891) by John William Waterhouse. Pre-Raphaelite beauty. Circe offers the cup to Odysseus. The Odyssey, immortalized in oil.
Jack Grimes: “Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a movie with cameras instead of memorizing the entire...
johnnycrass: Faeries are not real but I wish they were so I could spray one with raid. And Harry Houdini to his wife after dinner...