A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Halloween is on Saturday! I don’t know about you, but I am definitely not going out because of the plague. However that doesn’t mean you can’t get festive in the comfort of your own home! Here are some easily-constructed Shakespearean Halloween costume ideas from last year!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
If you don’t want to go shopping for novelty items, you can definitely use ketchup in place of fake blood. But, you know… at your own risk.
As Halloween is fast approaching (when did the run-up to Halloween become as involved as the run-up to Christmas?) I thought it would be a good time to revisit some of my earlier Halloween comics and re-draw the earliest ones digitally. Enjoy!
Original Shakespearean Halloween Party I here. Honestly, after all these years, Desdemona’s handkerchief and the bees are still my favorite Shakespearean Halloween costume ideas.
Original Shakespearean Halloween Party II here. Seriously, butter knife + string + stick is all the effort I want to put into a costume.
He’s dressed as a lion tamer and is holding a shrew. I’ve had to explain this to everybody, the sure sign that a joke didn’t work. Oh well.
Pls note bear is mauling his shoulder. Textual accuracy is important.
Occult October continues with a closer look at all of Shakespeare’s ghosts! Not just the flashy ones like Hamlet Sr. and Banquo. ALL of them. (Apparitions not included.)
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Richard III provides full employment for ghost actors.
It’s October, the spoooooookiest month of the year! Shakespeare is full of spooky, so, to get in the seasonal swing of things, let’s start with taking a look at how to draw my personal favorite Shakespearean ghost!
OK, so all of Shakespeare’s ghosts are pretty cool. I don’t want to play favorites. But… COME ON. THE GORY LOCKS. That’s some top-quality spooking going on there.
This video comes courtesy of my top-tier supporters on Patreon, who, in the grand scheme of things, are the goriest of locks. And I mean that as a compliment.
