epic toon: the world’s great stories as webtoons

One Thousand and One Nights
A Thousand and One
A king who kills a new wife every morning. A storyteller who has worked out that a story left unfinished at dawn buys her one more day.
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The Poetic Edda
The Wolf and the World
The gods know exactly how the world ends, who kills them, and in what order. They have known for a very long time. They go on anyway.
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Long Way Home
Troy has fallen and every other captain is already sailing for his own front door. One of them turns the wrong way at Tenedos, and spends ten years paying for it.
Albanian folktale, E Bukura e Dheut (the hiding contest)
The Beauty of the Earth
She will marry the man who hides where she cannot find him. She has a glass that sees everywhere.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Oldest Story
A king who cannot be beaten meets the one man who can match him. What begins as a fight becomes a friendship, and the friendship becomes the reason he goes looking for a way to never die.
The Poetic Edda
The Wolf and the World
The gods know exactly how the world ends, who kills them, and in what order. They have known for a very long time. They go on anyway.
Arthurian legend
The Sword in the Stone
A boy nobody is watching pulls a blade out of an anvil because his brother forgot one. The kingdom he is handed will take everything he builds.
Albanian myth and folklore
See allAlbanian folktale, E Bukura e Dheut (the hiding contest)
The Beauty of the Earth
She will marry the man who hides where she cannot find him. She has a glass that sees everywhere.
Albanian mythology: E Bukura e Qiellit (folktale)
The Beauty of the Sky
Her sister rules the world below. She is harder to reach, and far harder to keep.
Albanian mythology: Muji (Songs of the Frontier Warriors)
Muji the Strong
A herdsman boy nurses two mountain-spirit infants back to health. They offer him a wish. He asks for strength.
Albanian mythology: Zana (highland belief)
The Mountain Spirit
A mountain spirit who grants strength to those she favours and takes the voice of those who cross her.
Albanian mythology: Ora (folk belief)
The Hour Keeper
Every person is born with one. She keeps the hours of your life and she does not explain them.
Albanian mythology: Kulshedra (folk tradition)
The Dragon
A nine-tongued serpent that holds back the rain until she is paid. Drought is a negotiation.
Albanian mythology: Drangue (folk tradition)
The Storm Born
Born with wings under his arms and a shirt he must never lose. He fights the drought with lightning.
Albanian mythology: Rozafa (foundation legend)
The Woman in the Wall
The castle walls fell every night until one wife agreed to be built into them, on one condition.
Albanian mythology: Gjergj Elez Alia (Songs of the Frontier Warriors)
Nine Wounds
Nine wounds, nine years in bed, one sister nursing him. Then the sea-monster asks for her.
Albanian mythology: Bajlozi i Zi (Songs of the Frontier Warriors)
The Black Knight
The Black Knight comes out of the sea and takes what he wants. Nobody has beaten him yet.
Albanian mythology: Shtojzovalle (folk belief)
The Dancers
Dancing spirits in the meadow at night. Do not join them, and do not name them.
Albanian mythology: Perria (folk belief)
The Spring Maiden
She belongs to the spring and the running water. The village keeps the well clean for a reason.
Albanian mythology: Nëna e Diellit (folktale)
The Mother of the Sun
She keeps the house at the edge of the sky, and every night her son comes home to it.
Albanian mythology: Stihi (folk tradition)
The Fire Guardian
A fire-breathing guardian coiled around whatever it was set to keep. It does not sleep.
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See allDon Quixote
The Knight and the Windmills
He has read every book of chivalry ever printed and concluded that the age of knights is not over, merely under-staffed. He is wrong about almost everything, and he goes anyway.
The Ulster Cycle
The Song of the Spear
A boy kills a hound and takes its place as guard dog. He is given a choice: a long life nobody remembers, or a short one they never stop singing about.
Greek myth
The Descent
He plays well enough to make stone weep, so they let him walk into the land of the dead to bargain for her. The way out has one condition.
The Iliad
The Anger of Achilles
Nine years into a war he was promised would make him immortal, the best fighter in the world is sulking in his tent. The insult was small. The cost will not be.
One Thousand and One Nights
A Thousand and One
A king who kills a new wife every morning. A storyteller who has worked out that a story left unfinished at dawn buys her one more day.
Journey to the West
The Monkey King
Born from a stone, he learned every trick heaven had, ate the peaches of immortality, and got himself buried under a mountain for five hundred years.
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See allThe Iliad
The Anger of Achilles
Nine years into a war he was promised would make him immortal, the best fighter in the world is sulking in his tent. The insult was small. The cost will not be.
The Ulster Cycle
The Song of the Spear
A boy kills a hound and takes its place as guard dog. He is given a choice: a long life nobody remembers, or a short one they never stop singing about.
Greek myth
The Descent
He plays well enough to make stone weep, so they let him walk into the land of the dead to bargain for her. The way out has one condition.
Don Quixote
The Knight and the Windmills
He has read every book of chivalry ever printed and concluded that the age of knights is not over, merely under-staffed. He is wrong about almost everything, and he goes anyway.
Myth, epic and legend
See allThe Odyssey (Homer)
The Long Way Home
Troy has fallen and every other captain is already sailing for his own front door. One of them turns the wrong way at Tenedos, and spends ten years paying for it.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Oldest Story
A king who cannot be beaten meets the one man who can match him. What begins as a fight becomes a friendship, and the friendship becomes the reason he goes looking for a way to never die.
The Poetic Edda
The Wolf and the World
The gods know exactly how the world ends, who kills them, and in what order. They have known for a very long time. They go on anyway.
Arthurian legend
The Sword in the Stone
A boy nobody is watching pulls a blade out of an anvil because his brother forgot one. The kingdom he is handed will take everything he builds.
One Thousand and One Nights
A Thousand and One
A king who kills a new wife every morning. A storyteller who has worked out that a story left unfinished at dawn buys her one more day.
Journey to the West
The Monkey King
Born from a stone, he learned every trick heaven had, ate the peaches of immortality, and got himself buried under a mountain for five hundred years.
The Iliad
The Anger of Achilles
Nine years into a war he was promised would make him immortal, the best fighter in the world is sulking in his tent. The insult was small. The cost will not be.
The Ulster Cycle
The Song of the Spear
A boy kills a hound and takes its place as guard dog. He is given a choice: a long life nobody remembers, or a short one they never stop singing about.
Greek myth
The Descent
He plays well enough to make stone weep, so they let him walk into the land of the dead to bargain for her. The way out has one condition.
Don Quixote
The Knight and the Windmills
He has read every book of chivalry ever printed and concluded that the age of knights is not over, merely under-staffed. He is wrong about almost everything, and he goes anyway.


