Let’s keep on updating my past New Year’s Resolutions comics, shall we?
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GTB Play Page Updates: Coriolanus
Time for another play page update! Check out my scene-by-scene adaptation of Coriolanus, as well as a handful of other Coriolanus-related comics .
My scene-by-scenes have definitely improved since this one. I did it really quickly because the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus, starring Tom Hiddleston, was about to be broadcast live by the National Theatre and, as I was still desperately trying to build an audience, I decided to try and capitalize on the occasion.
I’m not desperately trying to build an audience anymore. I’m just trying to get by.
Shakespearean New Year's Resolutions, part 1 (Remastered)
Hey! We made it to 2021! There's still a long, dark tunnel ahead before we can put this pandemic behind us, but at least now there's a light at the end of the tunnel which I don't think is a train.
The first couple months of 2021 are going to consist of remastered versions of old comics and more play page updates, because, frankly, I'm burnt out and have some actual commissions that I've been neglecting for too long. But hopefully things will settle down soon and I can get started on the next play.... whatever it will be.
For now, let’s go waaaaaay back to my first set of Shakespearean New Year’s Resolutions!
As you can see, my style has evolved a bit. Not much, but a bit.
I think we can agree that Hamlet’s resolution is still on point.
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!
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
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.
GTB Play Page Updates: Twelfth Night
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
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.