*Bea Wolf* is @ZachWeinersmith and @Bouletcorp's ferociously amazingly great illustrated kids' graphic novel adaptation of the Old English epic poem, which inspired Tolkien, who helped bring it to popularity after it had languished in obscurity for centuries:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250776297/beawolf
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https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250776297/beawolf
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There are *some* changes, of course. Grendel - the boss monster that both Beowulf and Bea Wulf must defeat - is no longer obsessed with decapitating his foes and stealing their heads.
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And Bea Wulf - and the kings that do battle with Grendel - are not interested in the gold and jewels that the kings of *Beowulf* hoard.
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That substitution is key to transposing the thousand-year-old adult epic *Beowulf* for enjoyment by small children in the 21st century.
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This effect owes a large debt to Boulet's stupendous artwork. Boulet brings a vibe rarely seen in American kids' illustration, owing quite a lot to France's bande dessinée tradition.
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https://www.comixtrip.fr/bibliotheque/bea-wolf-weinersmith-boulet-albin-michel/
The utter brilliance of *Bea Wulf* is as much due to the things it preserves from the original epic as it is to the updates and changes.
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Béa Wolf ou comment garder son âme d'enfant - Comixtrip
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These literary devices, rarely seen today, are extremely powerful, and they conjure up the force and mystique that has kept Beowulf in our current literary discourse for more than a millennium. They also make this a *super* fun book to read aloud.
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On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's Exile in Bookville:
https://exileinbookville.com/events/39808
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