For those not familiar with IDW’s series Kill Shakespeare, let me break it down: all of Shakespeare’s characters are real, and so is Shakespeare (also, he might be a wizard). There’s magic and intrigue and high adventure. I don’t really need to give you more details than that, right? Go read this book immediately!
News & Things: Days of Future Dirtbags
News Dirtbag Hamlet Totally Rad, Also a Dirtbag Mallory Ortberg and Matt Lubchansky re-imagine Shakespeare’s troubled prince as a skateboarding, bird-flipping douchebag, and it is glorious. “im going to the cemetery to touch skulls” College Could See Funds Cut for Choice of Fun Home A South Carolina university faces massive budget cuts after including Alison Bechdel’s…
Three Love Songs/Three Comics
Music and comics go together like … well, music and comics. Sometimes it’s just a well-chosen lyric juxtaposed with a particular panel sequence, or a character singing a favorite song that also happens to reveal something important about their story arc. However it’s done, the blending of such an evocative auditory medium with the visuals…
