Beowulf Archives

Cape and Elba Niado is a new modern high school comic book take on Beowulf, launching from SHP Comics as part of their July 2026 solicits and solicitations, in Massive Indies through Lunar Distribution. SHP Full July 2026 Solicits B.O WOLF #1 (OF 5) CVR A REKSA XAVI P (W) Darin S Cape (A) Elba Niado (CA) Reksa[...]

ComicsBurgh is a brand new comic book publisher who launched at shows earlier this year but which will have its first titles solicited through Diamond Comic Distributors for March 2023, with the previously Kickstartered Beowulf #1 by Grant Lankard and Antonio Brandao, and The Edge #1 by Marvin Wynn and Mark Louie Vuycankiat It will[...]

Grendel, Kentucky is an updated retelling of the saga of Beowulf with a Southern Gothic and feminist twist New writer Jeff McComsey turns the olde worlde heroic saga into a modern American story set in the Rural South, dealing with poverty, family secrets, crime, and of course, a feminist biker gang Because why not? The[...]

By José Luis del Río Fortich Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest Tolkien himself, who translated the 11th-century poem Beowulf, called the story "laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach[...]