Stick Figure Iconography: Richard II
It’s everyone’s favorite drama queen!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
The little silly-looking pointed beard is historical. It’s in his portraits and his funeral effigy and it looks SO SILLY. I love it.
GTB Play Page Updates: Romeo and Juliet
The “Mya Laboriously Organizes and Updates the Good Tickle Brain Archives” saga continues! The Romeo and Juliet play page is up and running! Wherefore should you check it out? Wherefore not?
Shakespeare on Masks
Some useful quotes for our current time.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will INSIST THAT YOU PULL YOUR MASK UP OVER YOUR NOSE, COME ON, MY GLASSES ARE FOGGING UP TOO BUT SERIOUSLY ONLY SELFISH SOCIOPATHIC NARCISSISTS THINK THAT’S TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY FOR LITERALLY SAVING LIVES AND CURBING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC JUST dammit… I’m so tired… just wear your masks properly.
GTB Play Page Updates: Hamlet
As you know, my comic archives have been pretty nonexistent thus far. For some reason “Update and Organize Archives” never seems to make it above “OMG DRAW NEW COMICS” on my to-do list. Well, I’m trying to remedy that now. I am going back through SEVEN (!!!) years’ worth of comics, retagging them, and putting together play-specific pages. It’s a slow process, but hopefully will make Good Tickle Brain a much more navigable resource for my fellow Shakespeare geeks.
Naturally, the first play page to be completed is Hamlet! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I think I’ve drawn more Hamlet-related comics than anything else. That jerk always hogs the limelight. Anyways… take a look, check out any comics you might have missed, revisit old favorites you haven’t seen in years, and enjoy!
And, if by some terrible miscalculation on your part, you are eligible to vote in the U.S. elections but have not yet voted early or absentee… VOTE. VOTE. PUT YOUR MASK ON AND GET YOURSELF DOWN TO THE POLLS RIGHT NOW, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. PLEASE. I’M BEGGING YOU.
Lazy Shakespearean Halloween Costumes (Repost)
Halloween is on Saturday! I don’t know about you, but I am definitely not going out because of the plague. However that doesn’t mean you can’t get festive in the comfort of your own home! Here are some easily-constructed Shakespearean Halloween costume ideas from last year!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
If you don’t want to go shopping for novelty items, you can definitely use ketchup in place of fake blood. But, you know… at your own risk.
Shakespearean Halloween Party I-IV (Remastered)
As Halloween is fast approaching (when did the run-up to Halloween become as involved as the run-up to Christmas?) I thought it would be a good time to revisit some of my earlier Halloween comics and re-draw the earliest ones digitally. Enjoy!
Original Shakespearean Halloween Party I here. Honestly, after all these years, Desdemona’s handkerchief and the bees are still my favorite Shakespearean Halloween costume ideas.
Original Shakespearean Halloween Party II here. Seriously, butter knife + string + stick is all the effort I want to put into a costume.
He’s dressed as a lion tamer and is holding a shrew. I’ve had to explain this to everybody, the sure sign that a joke didn’t work. Oh well.
Pls note bear is mauling his shoulder. Textual accuracy is important.
A Guide to Shakespeare's Ghosts
Occult October continues with a closer look at all of Shakespeare’s ghosts! Not just the flashy ones like Hamlet Sr. and Banquo. ALL of them. (Apparitions not included.)
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Richard III provides full employment for ghost actors.