Tag Archives: Kill Shakespeare

Free Speech, Justice for a Super-Fan, and The Bard Himself Takes the Stage: A mid-November News Update

Comic Books have long been at the forefront of battles over censorship and freedom of speech in contemporary literature, and a new press release this past week from the Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund reaffirms their commitment to the cause.
Justice was meted out yesterday as the assclown who robbed a mentally disabled Superman super-fan of thousands of dollars worth of comics and collectibles pertaining to the Man of Steel received his sentencing.
Perhaps inevitably, Kill Shakespeare gets a live stage adaptation.

Fabler Blog Interview: Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col and Andy Belanger on Kill Shakespeare

All the world’s a page (of sequential art) to Andy Belanger, Conor McCreery, and Anthony Del Col, creators of the runaway hit comic series Kill Shakespeare.

Kill Shakespeare is a twelve-issue comic book series published by IDW which follows the conceit that Shakespeare’s characters all exist in the same universe, and further to that, they are aware of the Bard and his ability to alter their stories.
Several weeks back, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Anthony, Conor, and Andy at the 2011 Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.