Manga contest...

[telophase]

...if you are 19 years old or younger. Creber Monde is hosting a Shakespeare manga contest - the basics are that they want 5-10 pages of inked and lettered artwork, plus a mockup of a cover, plus a $35 entry fee by December 31. Finalists will be asked to create 5-10 more pages by April. A book will be published in September. Winners get $500 and their school gets $500.

Comments

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Two years ago I would have done that in a heartbeat. Hamlet is fun because everyone dies, you could make a Midsummer Night's Dream look really pretty, and my favorite Shakespeare scene is the "do you bite your thumb at me?" part in Romeo and Juliet.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I probably would have been all over the play the Rude Mechanicals were putting on in Midsummer. XD

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I wonder if some of those plays will even get any entries. I know we never did Macbeth, though I'll get around to reading it someday and Othello was actually really boring. The swordfight in Hamlet would be really neat though.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

We did Macbeth, but not Othello. I remember having to memorize a speech in Macbeth - most people picked the "Double, double, toil and trouble" one because it rhymed, but I was a snob and did the "Is this a dagger I see before me, its handle towards my hand?" speech. The teachers told me I sounded like I knew what I was talking about in the speech - I'd hope so, because that was the year I was in the theatre club. XD

I'd want to do my favorite bits from Hamlet, which is mostly Hamlet giving the actors instructions on how to act, but it's harder to draw that dynamically than a swordfight. XD

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

When they start advertising for Greek Tragedies I'd be interested. XD
What's with all these companies pushing for manga-esque Shakespear these days? Are they just trying to connect for kids?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Because SHAKESPEARE is, like, EDUMACATIONAL! Why? Because it IS!

They do better getting teen heartthrobs to do Shakespeare in the movies, I think. The kind of people who'd pick up a Shakespeare manga are probably the kind who'd actually pick up Shakespeare.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

ahhaha! I've always resented being assured Shakespeare was educational; as if that was the ONLY reason we were being made to read it. (If our teachers had sold it as sex, violence, and clever insults I would have been all over it!) At least it isn't Chaucer. *SHIVER* Iambic pentameter is preferable over rhyming couplets any day of the week.

And you're right! If I didn't like Shakespeare I wouldn't pick up a Shakespeare manga; unless it was a remake of some sort. Like, Furryspeare or Space Comedy Twelfth Night. Romeo & Julius?

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

That all depends on your version of Chaucer, as I thought Othello was less interesting then Canterbury Tales. My great books class had a version that was a nice easy read, but the Brit. Lit. class had
"Whan that April with his showres soote
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed ever veine in swich licour,
of which vertu engendered is the flowr;"

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I was all about the Decameron myself, but that's because it had more porn. :D

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Hmm it looks more interesting then Chaucer, but it is also in that goofy frame narrative, and I'm a weirdo who doesn't like them.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

That all depends on your version of Chaucer
I like the story behind Canterbury Tales fine, but the couplets drive me batty! Actually, the language did nothing for me either as I don't sound words out in my head, it's all by sight. *is forced to read very slowly* *tries to correct the spelling* *cannot pronounce words*
XD

[maiteoida.livejournal.com]

Haha, I could totally just add four more pages to that random Ophelia comic I did a month ago...Hey, I'm still 19, okay?!

But I do agree that there should be more greek tragedies, dammit. :( Not that I don't love Shakespeare, but.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Go for it - if they're going to say "19" and not "must be in highschool," then it's their problem. XD

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I just went to your journal and looked at it. Really neat though, you have beautiful art. Would you be offended if I friended you?

[maiteoida.livejournal.com]

No, not at all! Friend away. :) Just be a bit warned...been going through a bit of a dry spell as of late, so I haven't been posting art as much. Trying to change that though.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

But I do agree that there should be more greek tragedies, dammit.
Melty poison dresses of doom! =D
*high five for fellow greek tragedy fan*