A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
If you’ve been following my work here for a while, you know I love writing musical parodies. Seriously, I can’t get enough of it. And now you can browse all my musical parodies in one place!
In related news, I got a ukulele last year and am planning to put together “The Song Book of Shakespearean Parodies That Are Particularly Easy to Play on the Ukulele” sometime in the uncertain future. Don’t hold your breath, but it’s going to happen.
Just over six years ago I drew a series of bingo cards for each of Shakespeare’s major genres. They weren’t perfect; for starters, they were a 4x4 grid instead of the standards 5x5 grid. So, to celebrate Shakespeare’s birth month, I decided not only to give them the old “remastering” treatment, but also to team up with my pocket dramaturg, Kate Pitt, to add nine extra squares per card. Print them out and bring them to the next Shakespeare play you see!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Here’s the original:
I keep picking things to “remaster” with the idea that they will be quicker and easier to do than original comics, to give me some time to work on other projects. I keep being proven wrong.
It’s Shakespeare’s birth month, and you know what that means… lots of random online events celebrating Shakespeare! I’m excited to be a part of Hark Journal’s birthday celebration this year.
Who: Me! And also Devon Glover, Ian Doescher, Conor Hanratty, David Serero, and Wendy Lennon! What an awesome line-up.
What: Six awesome Shakespeare people chatting about their work and Shakespeare! Wheee!
When: Monday, April 19, 7:30pm
Where: On Zoom! Where else? Register here!
It’s the final set of play page updates! Oh my gosh, I hate organizing my archives. I hate it so much. But it’s done! And it’s already out of date! I hate this.
Anyways, here’s the last of the little buggers.
BRB gotta go update my archives again.
The final installment of my remastered Shakespearean Selfies! It’s been super fun to revisit and update these. I’ll have to do some more soon…
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
And here’s the original:
If you’ve enjoyed this, make sure you check out Shakespearean Selfies, part 6, which didn’t really need to be remastered.
It’s “T” day, featuring three comparatively marginal plays starting with “T”! Not a lot of comics here yet. Give me time.
….like, a lot of time. You aren’t going to be seeing a Troilus and Cressida scene-by-scene for a while.
MOAR REMASTERED SELFIESSSSSSS
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
And let’s take the Wayback Machine back to the original:
Wasn’t going to be able to improve on the bear, so basically just copied it.
Here comes some more plays! I’m very fond of Richard III, so I’ve done quite a lot of scattershot comics about it over the years. I really want to do a scene-by-scene of it… but I kind of think I need to do the Henries first? That will take YEARS…
Yes, it’s MORE remastered Shakespearean selfies!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Check out the original here and marvel at my primitive pen-and-ink attempts to draw “insubstantial”.
Pretty pleased with my action-blur on Casca, tbh.
