A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Time for more Shakespearean Selfies!
I'm in Instagram now, so I'm starting to get the hang of how all these hashtags actually work. Sort of. Well, not really. It turns out you just make 'em up as you go along, for the most part. #ThisIsAHashtag #ImDoingItWrong
Don't let anyone tell you that Shakespeare's language is inaccessible.
I have never dressed up as a chicken, but if I ever do, I know what Shakespeare lines I'm going to be quoting.
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Another Friday, another Shakespearean Character Spotlight. We previously profiled Jamy, the most Scottish Scotsman to ever Scot, but the subject of today's spotlight gives him a run for his money.
There's no situation so dire that it can't be alleviated by a good knock-knock joke, right?
Oh. Maybe I was wrong.
Consider this a sequel to The Wars of the Roses: Knock Knock Joke Edition.
...I'm terrible at knock-knock jokes. This is what I'm trying to tell you.
As you all know, I've summarized all of Shakespeare's plays in three panels each. Well, that's all well and good, but it criminally ignores Shakespeare's narrative poems. I'm going to try and remedy that.
Wild boars are hard to draw. Uderzo makes it look so easy.
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Aha! At last, my first truly and totally insignificant Shakespearean Character Spotlight! Let's meet Servant!
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Sometimes I sit down to draw a comic, and my mind goes totally blank, and then you end up getting a comic like this. Sorry.
So, the interwebs have been buzzing with the announcement of George Lucas's upcoming animated film Strange Magic, which is apparently "inspired" by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. From the scant information that has been released, it seems that the inspiration begins and ends with the concept of there being magical creatures in a woods with a potion of some sort. Still, it's nice to think about what might come from this unlikeliest of mash-ups...
I apologize for the inclusion of Jar-Jar, but really, what Star Wars character better sums up "this is to make an ass of me"?
