COMICS: Manga Does Shakespeare

[Ryan Goble]

You've probably read earlier posts about Classical Comics and Shakespeare like GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES: The British Invasion of Classical Comics If you dig that, you'll also dig this 2007 piece from Wired Magazine featuring another cool set of Shakespeare Manga...

Shakespeare
To manga or not to manga? That is the question. British publisher Self Made Hero is bringing out manga editions of several Shakespeare works, including Hamlet. Perhaps inevitably, the indecisive Dane lives in the year 2107 on an Earth ravaged by global warming.

This text is from the wired feature "Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex."  This sidebar can be found here.

All the Self Made Hero comics can be found on Amazon in the us and you can browse their entire collection here.

I also found this great video about how their artisitc process - trés cool...

Sonia Leong – Manga Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet from SelfMadeHero on Vimeo.

[Matt Madden]

Hm, Wiley's already been doing this for several years (featuring several former students of mine, Hyeondo Park and Yali Lin)... http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470097574.html

Don't know about this new version but the Wiley editions aim to be faithful to WS--text is cut for space but not re-written...

[Ryan Goble]

Hey Matt,

Yeah, those texts are great as well - I'm not into an either or thing - I always think all these adaptations are cool to check out. I actually met Hyendo at the MOCA art fest in '09 - quote a gifted artist, eh? He's on the Ning and he talked a bit about his work with Julius Caesar on this post? Ideas on making "Julius Caesar" POP? You might dig it!