Expectations

Hey noble Good Tickle Brain readers! Just a quick note to let you know I will be taking July off as a mental health month. I’m OK, but the last couple months have definitely been a struggle and I’ve got to take some time to properly fix things instead of just constantly papering over the cracks. It’s really difficult, because the first rule of webcomics is “commit and stick to a regular posting schedule!!” and I can probably count on two hands the number of times I’ve missed a comic deadline over the past 7+ years. However, I’m tired of constantly having days like this:

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Shoppe orders will continue to be filled, although I unexpectedly ran out of posters, so it might be a couple weeks before they are back in stock. See you back here in August! Thanks for your patience and understanding.

GTB Play Page Updates: King Lear

It’s another play page update! Take yourself back to 2014, before I started drawing digitally and was still goofing around on paper with pen and pencil, and revisit my King Lear comics!

I suppose at some point I’ll go back and revise my Stick-Figure King Lear. I was doing things pretty fast and dirty back then and it could be improved in a lot of ways. But… don’t hold your breath. Lear is a miserable play and I have no desire to do anything with it anytime soon. Everything is miserable enough as it is.

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.

RAMPANT CONSUMERISM WEEKEND COMMENCES!

Here we go! Get 20% off your entire order from The Good Tickle Shoppe using the incredibly imaginative code BLACKFRIDAY2018 from now until 11:59pm EST on Monday, November 26.

Featuring classics like the Complete Works of Shakespeare in Three Panels Each comic book, the Complete Works of Shakespeare t-shirt, the Shakespeare Flowchart poster, and my brand new Shakespearean Insults t-shirt, plus more!

Happy holidays!

Good Tickle Brain is on Patreon!

Hey everyone! As I mentioned obliquely in yesterday's post, I am now working full-time on Good Tickle Brain! This is very exciting, as it means I have more time to devote to other cool projects (priority #1 = making that flowchart poster a reality) besides just rushing to get each week's comics out on time. 

Of course, working full-time on Good Tickle Brain does come with it's own set of challenges, so, if you're interested in supporting my work, I've set up a Patreon page. Here, let me tell you all about it in this dorky, awkward, yet hopefully somehow endearing video that I made!

You can read up much more about how it works, plus see examples of the various rewards, over at my Patreon page. 

Again, I want to stress that Good Tickle Brain will continue to be a totally free webcomic. If you don't want to support me, or want to support me but can't afford to, that's absolutely fine. You can still come here twice a week for Shakespeare comics, and I will still love you. But, if you have the means, your patronage will help me take Good Tickle Brain to newer and geekier heights than ever before.

It's going to be a fun ride! Thank you so much!