Let’s keep updating those play pages! Today we have three “M” plays that are conventionally known as comedies. In actual fact, two of them really incredibly NOT funny and the third is… just not very good, to be honest. I’ll let you figure out which is which.
GTB Play Page Updates: Henry VIII, King John, and Love's Labour's Lost
A trifecta of relatively obscure plays today!
I’ve seen Henry VIII and King John performed lived twice each now, and Love’s Labour’s four times, not counting various filmed productions. I can also say “honorificabilitudinitatibus” forwards and backwards. My Shakespeare geek creds are strong.
GTB Play Page Updates: Henries IV, V, and VI
Today’s play page update features not one, not two, but THREE Henries! I have to confess, these are six of my favorite plays (ok, not Henry IV, part 2, as much as I love the deathbed reconciliation scene.) Olivier’s film of Henry V was my gateway into Shakespeare nerd-dom, seeing an RSC tour of all three Henry VIs and Richard III cemented my allegiance to the history plays, and the title of my webcomic COMES DIRECTLY FROM HENRY IV, PART 1.
Give me that sweet, sweet Plantagenet in-fighting, thank you.
GTB Play Page Updates: Comedy, Cymbeline... Edward III??
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.
GTB Play Page Updates: All's Well, Ant & Cleo, As You
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:
GTB Play Page Updates: Richard II
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!
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.
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.