A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
One more piece of Stick Figure Iconography before we resume normal service next week. Today we’re looking at the world’s best second banana, Hamlet’s buddy Horatio!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Tune in next week when (barring any more crises) I’ll finally get to the SECOND SCENE of Hamlet!
I was beset by crises last week, so I didn’t get a chance to finish this week’s installments of A Stick-Figure Hamlet. To give myself some breathing room, I’ve got a couple more Stick Figure Iconographies for you! We’ve already taken a look at young Hamlet, so this week let’s keep moving down the cast of characters and examine old Hamlet.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
OoooOOOOoooOOoooo…
Hey! Are we still on the battlements? YOU BET WE ARE!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Tune in next week, when we finally move on to the SECOND scene! Boy howdy, we’re going to be with this play for a loooong time….
When we last left our heroes, there was A GHOST.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
I realize it’s been two installments and we haven’t even finished the first scene. I hope you’re in this for the long haul, people…
Let’s get this show underway with the best opening line in all of Shakespeare!
“Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio" always makes me laugh. Tune in next week to find out what Horatio has to say.
Shortly after I had started Good Tickle Brain, I drew up the Dramatis Personae of Hamlet. That was, incidentally, the very first thing I drew after settling on the “circle on top of a kind of triangle” stick figure template that now forms the very base and pillar of my art.
Now, six years later, I am revisiting that Dramatis Personae ahead of launching into a full scene-by-scene retelling of Hamlet! Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
A moment of silence for Voltemand and Cornelius, who didn’t make this cut.
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OK, that’s enough silence. Nobody really misses them.
