A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Some more play page updates for you today! I was surprised by relatively how many comics I’ve actually drawn about Cymbeline, and was also surprised by how few comics I’ve drawn about Comedy. The number of Edward III comics, meanwhile was exactly what I expected.
I keep telling my friends “[this month] I’m going to recharge and reset so I can avoid burnout and come back stronger than ever” and then I keep not doing it. But I’m really going to try this month.
Nope, still not buying it.
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Time for some more play page updates! I’ve run out of plays that I’ve done complete scene-by-scenes adaptations for, but I’m putting together pages for the rest, starting with the As:
OK, one final set of remastered Shakespearean New Year’s Resolutions, while it’s still January.
And here’s the original:
Having survived my first virtual conference, I have to say there were more pros than I thought, although the cons were very substantial. Particularly the doom-scrolling one. I tell you, there is nothing more liable to distract you from an online conference session than watching a bunch of white-supremacist fascist terrorists storming your country’s seat of government in another window.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Regular programming (whatever the hell that is) resumes next week! Stay safe, loyal readers.
Hey all! A slight deviation from our usual programming today. I don’t know why I’m telling you that: I’m literally the only person in the world who knows what my usual programming is supposed to be, BUT ANYWAYS. MOVING ON.
Ahem. I’ve been wonderfully busy the last two weeks attending the Shakespeare Theatre Association’s annual conference. The STA conference is always a highlight of my year, as it’s a chance for me to see some of my very favorite people and to learn from them, but I was oddly unexcited about this year’s conference, which, due to THE THING, was going to be all virtual. Being on Zoom for seven days just didn’t seem very appealing to me.
Of course I was wrong, and it turned out to be a wonderfully inspiring, engaging, and fun experience. As usual, I drew lots of comics documenting my conference experience and, as I struggle to get back to my aforementioned usual programming, I thought I’d share a couple with you here this week.
Well, we’ve reached the the first play I ever gave the full scene-by-scene treatment: Richard II. As with Coriolanus, I did this rather-less-than-mainstream play early on in my Good Tickle Brain career purely to take advantage of the internet buzz around David Tennant’s stint as Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the subsequent National Theatre Live screening of that performance.
Anyways, check it and my vague smattering of other Richard II comics here!
Let’s keep on updating my past New Year’s Resolutions comics, shall we?
Here is the original:
