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05_KING LEAR Bibliography
Some people have asked what sources I used when researching King Lear. Here is an outline biography for you all. I've only linked a few of the titles as most of the editions I used are currently out of print. That said, most are still available, second-hand, through re-sellers in the Amazon US Marketplace.
THE TEXT / SHAKESPEARE
The Pitt Press Shakespeare KING LEAR (ed. A. W. Verity)
Cambridge University Press, 1912
KING LEAR (theatre programme)
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 2008
FIFTEEN PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
Oxford University Press, 1946
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SHAKESPEARE (ed: Enzo Orlandi)
Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, 1968
THE PERIOD / SETTING
DEERSLAYER, by J. Fenimore Cooper,
Blackie & Son Ltd.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, by J. Fenimore Cooper,
Penguin Classics, 1986
CRUCIBLE OF WAR, The Seven Years War and the Fate of Empire in Brit... (Fred Anderson)
Faber & Faber, 2000
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1754-1763: The Imperial Struggle for North America, by Seymour I. Schwartz
Castle Books, 1994
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (Benton & Louise Minks)
Lucent Books, 1995
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS (Francis Russell)
American Heritage, 1962
American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States, Vol. II
COLONIAL AMERICA (Robert G. Athearn)
Choice Publishing Inc., 1988
N.C. WYETH's PILGRIMS (text by Robert San Souci)
Chronicle Books, 1991
THE EXPLORATION OF NORTH AMERICA 1630-1776 (Cumming, Hillier, Quinn & Williams)
Elek Books Limited, 1974
HAWKEYE and The Last of the Mohicans Annual
Adprint, 1959
THE WILD WEST (Michael Johnson)
Treasure Press, 1985
ADVENTURES OF THE WILD WEST (Ron Embleton)
World Distributors Ltd., 1971
WOLFE's ARMY Osprey Men-at-Arms 48 (May & Embleton)
Osprey Publishing Limited, 1974
Military Uniforms in America, THE ERA OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1755-1795 (John R. Elting, editor)
Presidio Press, 1974
Don Troiani's SOLDIERS IN AMERICA, 1754-1865,
Stackpole Books, 1998
Reader's Digest, JOURNEYS INTO THE PAST,
LIFE WITH THE PIONEERS,
Reader's Digest, 1996
LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXPLORATION,
Reader's Digest, 1994
The Story of HANOVERIAN AND MODERN BRITAIN, (C.W. Airne)
Thomas Hope and Sankey-Hudson Ltd.
INDIAN CULTURE
Dean's Gift Book COWBOYS AND INDIANS (Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone)
Dean & Son Ltd., 1979
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, (H. W. LONGFELLOW, illus Kiddell-Monroe)
J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963
Indians of North America, THE IROQUOIS (Barbara Graymont)
Chelsea House, 1998
Indians of North America, THE MOHAWK (Nancy Bonvillain)
Chelsea House, 1992
Sampson Low Library of the Past,
The North American INDIAN (Michael R. Gibson)
Theorem Publishing Ltd., 1978
REALM OF THE IROQUOIS
Time-Life Books, 1993
INDIANS OF THE EASTERN WOODLANDS (Sally Sheppard)
Franklin Watts Inc., 1975
The Mammoth Book of NATIVE AMERICANS (Jon E. Lewis, ed.)
Carroll & Graf, 2004
INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS (Matthew W.Sterling / Kihn & Herget)
National Geographic Society, 1957
COMICS
Davy Crockett WESTERN TALES (Simon & Kirby UK reprint)
A World Distributors Comic
The Last of the Mohicans DARK HORSE CLASSIC (Jack Jackson)
Dark Horse Comics 1992
The Last of the Mohicans CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED
Gilberton Company
ANTHRO No.6 (Howie Post/Wally Wood)
DC comics, August 1968
NORTHWEST PASSAGE no. 2 (Scott Chantler)
Oni Press, 2006
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Webcomic ~ Dragon Heir: Chapter #5
Not sure how many of my LJ readers are following, but Chapter 5 is up!The Making of The Tempest & Midsummer Night's Dream
The final cover.
Oh yeah ...!
This was the cover that ended up being used in the final book design! The image is cropped a little bit on the cover, and it's a veerrrry slightly different colour (more yellow in the shadows, I seem to remember), but this is basically the picture ^_^
Oh my god, I drew this about ... three or four months ago now? I cain't remember. I do remember it was a couple of pages [of comic] before I started on the section with Bottom with his animal head, so I wasn't used to drawing the donkey ... as such, this image took about two hours to edit together so that the problems I had with the head were sorted into a more or less convincing ... er, image. Originally, Titania was leaning on him, but now she's ... er, not. Um!
I learned during this comic why, in most illustrations of Donkey-Bottom, he is really rather well-built ... and it's because trying to fit a huge head onto a skinny body really doesn't work. Of course, MY Bottom is quite thin (never thought I'd be able to say that in context, hahaha). So I had a lot of problems!
.............. p194
... finished.
p177
I've .... I've just drawn an amphitheatre. *cough-hack-die*To those who don't know - which I'm guessing will be about 100% of you - my absolute pet hates in drawing are (in order of lowest to highest Hate): feet-and-toes, chairs, curving scenery/things that involve circles, and stairs. So obviously, a ROUNDISH theatre COMPOSED OF STAIRS is not high on my list of likes. Oh god. Oh god. I haven't pencilled the lines yet, it's still at rough stage. IT COULD ALL GO VERY WRONG.
I had a count-down to the day I had to draw Bottom with his animal head (it was called D-Day, hur hur hurrrr), but THIS one sneaked up on me. I only realised today was Amphitheatre Day when I sat down to draw.
At any rate, all I can hope for is something that resembles an amphitheatre to some degree ... whine, moan, etc.
I have HOWEVER thumbnailed the entirity of the sequentials now. I finshed the buggers off (I hate thumbnailing too) the other week and now feel much better for it.
I'M NEARLY DONE I'VE NEARLY DONE THE WHOLE THING OMG.
The Book is Here!!
The Tempest has been printed! :D I received a copy in the post a few days ago, and it's looking great! It's amazing to actually see and hold a book that's filled with your own illustrations, I'm pretty excited!It's also good to be able to read it through in its intended format. I'm quite pleased with the pace of the read, although I can't really comment objectively, since I know the story inside out now. Well, next step, release date! The launch event is later this month :)
It's in the trees! It's coming!
I'm out of the woods! I'm out of the woods!! I DON'T HAVE TO DRAW ANY MORE TREES OMG so happy. *headdesk*
Fnurgle.
OOOooooh. Coffee and F-Zero X for breakfast does not a steady hand make. Urrrgh.... page 138 ....
Off To Print!
Proofing on The Tempest is now finished! Hopefully every last spelling mistake and image-based error has been found and sorted out. It should be a few weeks at the printer, and then I get to see the finished thing :D I can't wait! It's going to be my first complete book!I'll check back when the finished thing is ready.
Proofing
I guess it's common opinion that once you've finished working on all the pages that's it! You're done, the comic is finished and the printer just needs to print it (or at least that's what I naively thought XD).But no!
Proofing turns out to be quite an extensive and intense process! So far about 6 or 7 people (including me - many times) have read The Tempest through, making notes and suggestions that will help the final product to be at 110% quality.
In this process, all sorts of things are picked up on, such as inconsistency in images or characters, page order and page numbers, confusion about speech bubbles and who they belong to, page flow, legibility of text etc etc.
So far, more than 20 pages have been tweaked and edited. It's amazing how many mistakes a fine-tooth comb can pick out! However, this process has gone quite smoothly, and is now almost over... the day that the book goes to print is truly growing near, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it printed and bound!
Thanks to Kate, Charlie & Simon for taking time out to have a look over it :)
Lysander is a meanie
To be honest, Lysander is my least favourite character in Midsummer Night's Dream. It always shocks me how awful he becomes when under the influence of the flower (just say no, kids). Like, ACTUALLY horrible. Look how upset he makes Hermia:
Of course, it's not really Lysander's fault. The dear couldn't have done ANYTHING wrong, really. So with feminine lightning-quick recovery, Hermia beats on her best friend instead:
Haha! Hmm. Well, regardless of his nastiness, I'm not keen on Lysander. There was something about him that left a bad taste in my mouth from the beginning, and although my opinions of each of the characters has changed variously as I've worked with them, he's ... still way at the bottom of my scale of Likeness. Mm.
My most favouritist character is Helena. She's genuinely wonderful :D She's so ... kind of ... flappy! I don't know how to describe her. I think her edit for the Manga Shakespeare version has worked really well, too.
The character interactions are very delicate in general, especially during the long scenes in the wood ... I really appreciate these parts. It's been really cool breaking them down and deciding (as fast as possible, hur hur), what to do and how to place the couples and etc.
I am just about to start thumbnails for 130 - 161! It involves more screaming and shouting and Oberon.
FINIIISHED
Wahey! I've finished The Tempest! That's 193 b/w pages and 9 colour pages, plus a cover illustration and various revisions/tweaks.It feels great to have completed something so large, and I'm really excited to see it go to the printers. I'll be getting a copy of the proofs in a few days, and after all the checking has been done, it'll be a month or two before the actual shop release date. There's already a provisional page for it up on amazon.
I have to say, having completed the project, I now respect/appreciate Shakespeare in a whole new light. Previously, I'd only studied his plays for educational purposes, and never really enjoyed it properly, but the act of constantly referencing the edited version with the full version, and trying to deconstruct the prose and verse into images and solid meaning is a real eye-opener. If you want to do well on a Shakespeare-based exam, I suggest trying to edit down and illustrate a few famous passages! You won't forget those bloody quotes after you've had to create a character to deliver them! And you'll really appreciate the poetry of the language when you're bashing your head on the table thinking 'how can I create an image meaningful enough to replace this bit of what I previously though was just meaningless embellishment!?'.
Anyways XD I digress... I'm finished! And taking a short break from work, which is a pleasurable relief after 12 hour days 7 days a week for months.
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LOL, a little late but...
Just found this screenshot on my computer, I should have posted this up on the 5th November for Bonfire Night XD
Anyway, I had a great time hanging out on Midsummer Common with Nana and Chloe - the fairground rides and snacks were quite extortionate, so we decided to go on one ride, the biggest one XD It was the whirly super-tall blue neon one. And just as we paid for our tickets, the booth lady told her heavy to raise the price from £5 to £6 O_O;;
We grabbed some toffee apples, then Matthew found us and we made our way to the food stands to watch the fireworks. They were great, my neck was hurting by the end of it XD I love sparkly things.
Then as I bought myself some fried noodles, Laura bumped into us, so we all made our way to the Zebra, which was packed full. I swapped my half of IPA with Laura's pint of Wychfinder (yum) then after chatting very briefly with Andy, Carol and Bethany, we walked back to our respective houses.
Matthew: "So, do you remember how the rhyme goes?"
Me: "Remember, remember, the 5th of november.... BLOW UP PARLIAMENT!!!"
Matthew: "... *headdesk*"
Me: "But that's what's important, right? Ne? Ne?!"
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