A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Hey all! So, I totally burned myself out this past week. Like, “flaming husk of a car on the side of the highway” level of burnout. I blame Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Hopefully I’ll get my act together and have Hamlet back up and running next week. For the moment, here’s one of the (many) comics about burnout that I’ve drawn for my noble and generous Patreon supporters, who help take some of the weight off my shoulders.
Thanks for understanding!
Act 2, Scene 2 keeps rolling along, with **drumroll ** Polonius talking a lot! There’s a surprise!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Hopefully everyone can now tell their arras from their elbow. HEY HEY.
It’s here.
It’s finally here.
It’s ACT 2, SCENE 2 of Hamlet!
I hope you like it, because it goes on forEVER.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Seriously, we’re going to be parked in Act 2, Scene 2 well into the New Year. There’s nothing I can do about it, folks. Blame Shakespeare.
One more Stick Figure Iconography before we move on…
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
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A couple more Stick Figure Iconographies to get us ready for Act 2, Scene 2 next month…
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
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OK! Act 2, Scene 2 of A Stick-Figure Hamlet is up next, and BOY HOWDY is it a doozy. So, before I tackle it, I thought I’d just take a deep breath and share a couple more Stick Figure Iconographies with you, starting with everyone’s (least) favorite interfering father!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
One or two more iconographies next week before (dun dun DUNNNN) 2.2 gets underway.
We’ve just seen Polonius attempting to spy on his son, so let’s check in and see how his attempts to manipulate his daughter are going!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
JUST ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY
We’ve finally made it to Act 2! Now things are going to get exciting…
…after this scene, anyways.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Reynaldo’s totally pointless appearance here is usually cut, although, for some reason, I think I’ve personally seen him more often than not. Also, I’ll admit to one time being TOTALLY convinced that the actor playing Polonius had actually forgotten his lines. “By the mass, I was about to say something” sounds EXACTLY like what a Shakespearean actor who has dried would say in order to get a helpful prompt from their scene partner… and then Reynaldo straight-up prompts him. It’s great.
