Shakespeare: The Legacy

Well, that about wraps up Shakespeare Month! Let's just take a quick look at Shakespeare's incredibly prolonged afterlife:

I'll just end Shakespeare Month with these random thoughts:

• Don't take Shakespeare too seriously. Enjoy him.

• There is no right or wrong way to perform or consume Shakespeare.

• You're allowed not to like Shakespeare.

• If you think Shakespeare is difficult to understand, or boring, that doesn't make you stupid or uncultured.

• Shakespeare's plays aren't necessarily perfect or universal...

• ...unless you want them to be.

• Don't take Shakespeare too seriously. Enjoy him.

That's it for Shakespeare Month! I'm taking next week off but will be back here on May 8 with all new Shakespeare comics for you! 

Will Will Survive

It's SHAKESPEARE'S 454th BIRTHDAY! To celebrate, here's Shakespeare singing his own personal disco anthem:

Happy birthday, Will. Keep on keepin' on. 

Shakespeare: The End

Shakespeare Month is winding down, as is our boy Will's theatrical career...

Did you think this was the end of Shakespeare Month? Well, THINK AGAIN! Tune in on Monday (yes, Monday, not Tuesday) for a special Shakespearean birthday comic!

Shakespeare: The Theatres

Shakespeare Month at Good Tickle Brain continues with a look at two of the physical spaces that defined so much of Shakespeare's career.

Tune in on Thursday to see the end of Shakespeare... or is it the beginning????

Shakespeare: The Playwright

SHAKESPEARE MONTH continues! When we last left Will, he was stuck in the Lost Years, but now he's made it to London and is ready to start writing plays!

Tune in next week to learn a bit more about WHERE all those plays were performed! 

Shakespeare: The Lost Years

It's SHAKESPEARE MONTH here at Good Tickle Brain! Today we take a look at one of the most exciting period in Shakespeare's life: that seven-year gap when we have no documentation as to his activites and can thus imagine him doing ANYTHING.

I kind of love it that we don't know exactly what Shakespeare was doing during this time. It's nice to have a few unanswered questions. 

Tune in Thursday to see Shakespeare's triumphant emergence in London! 

Shakespeare: The Youth

It's SHAKESPEARE MONTH! Let's continue our journey through the timeline of Shakespeare's life with today's installment taking a closer look at Shakespeare's salad days in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Tune in next week to find out all about those missing seven years!

Shakespeare: The Timeline

It's April, which means it's SHAKESPEARE MONTH! All month I'll be running a series of biographical Shakespeare comics. Now, I'd like to state up front that I'm not a Shakespeare historian: I'm a Shakespeare cartoonist, and the two are very different things. So if there's something glaringly incorrect, I apologize in advance.

(And no, saying Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him is not glaringly incorrect. Go find an Oxfordian stick figure comic to follow or something.)

Tune in for the next installment on Thursday!