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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 23, 2017 21:52:02 GMT -5
Combining two of my many loves basically for spits and giggles, but thought this would be a good day to start things off. I had thought about usinfg the idea for the cover contest, but didn't wnat to limit thngs to covers only. Please join in. Just thought it would be fun to find any ties between Shakespeare and comics, from the covers of the old Classics Illustrated issues to allusions to the plays in story titles or titles that are borrowed from or allude to the works of Shakespeare, a.k.a. the guy we will NOT ever call "the Bard!" This ain't meant to be a doctoral dissertation, just goofy fun for whoever else might find it interesting. Or just me. My own goal will be to post at least one new item a day. Here are a variety of kickstarters: A cover from 1952:  Volstagg, clearly based on Falstaff:  and a nod to a Shakespeare title:  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 24, 2017 0:06:54 GMT -5
Forbidden Planet, based on The Tempest...  and we would be remiss to not acknowledge these...   However, I'm partial to this little tale...  This unlikely place featured a story by Robert Kanigher and Sam Glanzman, "Back Door to War." It features a modern Romeo and Juliet, in Sicily. Thankfully, it has a happier ending than the original, thanks to the crew of the Haunted Tank. |
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Post by foxley on Apr 24, 2017 2:05:18 GMT -5
 In this story, Tim attends a 'Shakespeare in the Park' style production with his school, and has to deal with a developing situation without blowing his secret identity. A fun little 'done-in-one' story. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 24, 2017 3:05:17 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 24, 2017 3:11:05 GMT -5
Superman # 44-Shakespeare's Ghost Writer  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 24, 2017 3:28:38 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 24, 2017 3:33:04 GMT -5
 From Green Lantern #64 |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2017 3:46:37 GMT -5
I always loved the way comics artists use to draw stubble on a persons face to denote them as a villain.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Apr 24, 2017 8:50:19 GMT -5
There's a very weird Hellboy story that alternates between scenes of Hellboy fighting a monster, and a Shakespeare play being performed by puppets. I think it's called The Ghoul, but I'm not positive.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2017 9:02:37 GMT -5
Gotlib and Alexis created a brilliant spoof of Hamlet in their Cinemastock series (that also had takes on Taras Bulba, the Avengers (Steed and Mrs Peel, that is) and the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, among others. One of the funniest aspect of the Hamlet adaptation is that the tale is told by the local cemetary's caretaker, and the pile of corpses keep growing and growing (with an inept doctor attributing all the deaths to snakebites... including Ophelia's drowning. Here is Hamlet's father making himself recognized by his son.  |
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Post by shaxper on Apr 24, 2017 12:12:41 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 24, 2017 12:56:58 GMT -5
I always rolled my eyes when John Byrne would quote Shakespeare (he did it a lot in The Next Men) and attribute it to Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. I think I was starting to be suspicious that Byrne was a bit of a pretentious twit, but that was the clincher.
I wonder if the "Authorship" thread at Byrne Robotics is still accessible. Lots of laughs.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2017 13:33:51 GMT -5
Eddie Brock, the rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 24, 2017 13:41:10 GMT -5
I love Hamlet. I've read it probably a dozen times. I've seen it onstage about three times. I've seen a bunch of the film versions, including the 1921 German version in which Hamlet is a woman masquerading as a man!
I used to have a reprint of the Classics Illustrated version of Hamlet. It was great! I love how the soliloquy is just a single one-page panel with small Hamlet in the center of a big room and the soliloquy is crammed into a single word balloon.
An editor probably thought: This is so awesome, you don't need to pretty it up with any gimmicks or anything.
Words. WORDS. WORDS!
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 24, 2017 15:08:43 GMT -5
I always rolled my eyes when John Byrne would quote Shakespeare (he did it a lot in The Next Men) and attribute it to Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. I think I was starting to be suspicious that Byrne was a bit of a pretentious twit, but that was the clincher. I wonder if the "Authorship" thread at Byrne Robotics is still accessible. Lots of laughs. You know, you want to give people the benefit of the doubt, and then they just go and do yet another thing that's obnoxious and stupid, don't they? Dooshbaggerus canadiensis is a terrible affliction. |
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