HAMISH STEELE
I am an Eisner award-winning, London-based Animation Director, Comic-Book Artist and Writer.
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"Savage, bawdy, irreverent and uproariously funny, this graphic novel has moments of grandeur and insight that make it educational as well as entertaining." - James Smart, The Guardian
Pantheon: The True Story of the Egyptian Deities is the most important myth in Ancient Egypt is faithfully retold in glorious colour! Horus, son of Isis, vows bloody revenge on his Uncle Set for the murder and usurpation of his Pharaoh father. Based on elements from several versions of the famous Osiris myth, Hamish Steele has resurrected this fantastic story in all its symbolic and humorous glory. Pantheon contains: incest, decapitation, suspicious salad, fighting hippos, flying cows, a boat race, resurrections, lots of scorpions and a golden willy.
In 2011, I uploaded a short 2 page comic to Tumblr based on an Egyptian myth in which Set tricked Osiris into getting trapped in a box. It went down very well and so I wanted to add a few more pages. But as I researched the myth, I realised this had to be something a whole lot bigger.
In 2013, I self-published the first edition of Pantheon in black and white through kickstarter. It came under the radar of Nobrow Press who have since published the extended, full-colour version which you can buy here and at all good comic and book shops.
It is the plan for Pantheon to be the first in a series of adult, comedy takes on Ancient Mythology.
