The Adventures of Odysseus — Schuff & Ruiz Johnson (graphic novel)
Your kid’s first wine-dark sea.
Coming Oct 27, 2026
Everyone meets Odysseus for the first time somewhere, and this is the friendliest first meeting in years: the whole voyage as a bright middle-grade graphic novel that trusts kids with the strangeness.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the journey intact — Troy to Ithaca with the gods, the monsters, the ghosts of Hades, and the homecoming all on the page.
Changes: the register: spare, direct storytelling for readers around 9–14, translated from Schuff’s Spanish, with art that crosses modern cartooning with the figures on Greek vases.
Whose story is it?
Odysseus’s, told straight for readers meeting him first.
How much time does it ask?
≈1–2 hr read (196 illustrated pages).
The lotus-eaters’ eyes spin in spirals. Kirkus’s starred review says it “captures the spirit and strangeness of its source.”
Where to find it
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More ways home: The Emily Wilson Translation (2017) · The Robert Fagles Translation (1996) · The Robert Fitzgerald Translation (1961)
Compare on one axis: How much of the gods do you actually get? (present, as written)