Medusa and Perseus

Was Medusa a monster? Was Perseus a hero? Not in this comic by André Breinbauer. The story turns the well-known myth upside down and tells it from the perspective of both figures in a radically different way: Medusa is not the monster who, out of malice, turns people into stone. Abused by a god and punished by a goddess, she is twice-victimized by the deities. Perseus, on the other hand, is still a child and a plaything of the mighty.

There are two unique aspects to this graphic novel: the first is that it is read from both sides, from Medusa's and from Perseus'; the other is a feminist view of the myth that completely differentiates it from other Medusa interpretations.