Farewell 2020

Well, we made it to the end of what was objectively a ghastly year on many different levels. Time to haul out the inspirational Shakespeare quotes as we look forward to 2021!

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Thanks to everyone who helped get me through this year, notably my supporters on Patreon, who have enabled me to donate $4000 this year to food banks and COVID-19 relief funds for theatre artists and underserved communities. Thanks also to my pocket dramaturg, Kate Pitt, for providing me with much-needed long-distance emotional and creative support as I struggled through A Stick-Figure Hamlet. Thanks to my climbing partner and my yoga teacher for keeping me active and helping me feel connected despite not being able to move together in the same space anymore. And thanks to my parents for literally everything else.

And thanks to you for following Good Tickle Brain. Without you, I’d just be screaming into the void.

Here’s to better years to come.

Shakespearean Christmas Carols, part 7

Time for another Shakespearean Christmas carol! (This is for you, Michael Bahr.)

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

To be honest, I’ve always felt that “Carol of the Bells” sounds like someone turned a panic attack into a song. Pretty sure my blood pressure was elevated while I was working on this. Gonna go chill out to some “Silent Night” now.

For more Shakespearean Christmas carols, check out the Good Tickle Brain Holiday Songbook!

I’m taking next week off but I’ll see you back here when the new year FINALLY rolls around.

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.

Stick Figure Iconography: King John

Let’s take a look a the English king everyone forgets Shakespeare wrote a play about: King John!

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt

Confession: I drew this because I just finished reading yet another popular history of the early Plantagenet kings. I will never forgive Shakespeare for not writing a play about Henry II, although The Lion in Winter more than makes up for it.

Also, they were apparently all red-headed.