Kathryn Martin’s adaptation of the opening monologue from Richard III.
“The Play’s the Thing” (Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2), adapted by Binah Q.
For this year’s Graphic Shakespeare Competition.
THE DECAPITATION OF MACBETH
“Women have no choice but to be decapitated, and in any case the moral is that if they don’t actually lose their heads by the sword, they only keep them on the condition that they lose them–lose them, that is, to complete silence, turned into automatons” (
Hélene Cixous, “Castration or Decapitation)
In the tradition of the Sundanese wayang golek (wooden puppet) and the Javanese wayang kulit (shadow puppet), the dalang, or puppetmaster, is the Father that creates and rules the universe. In this universe Macbeth is is caught in the gravitational fields of the masculine and the feminine. Her rebellion against the Father causes the death of her feminine self, and finds that the severed head she has been holding is her own. She is in the end a man. He has victoriously defeated and beheaded himself.
‘The Quarrel’ from Midnight Summer Dream by Inko Ai Takita
Page 1
1st panel:
PUCK Room, fairy!
2nd panel:
PUCK Here comes Oberon.
3rd panel:
Fairy And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!
4th panel:
OBERON Ill met by moonlight.
Page 2
1st panel:
OBERON Proud Titania.
2nd panel:
TITANIA What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:
3rd panel:
TITANIA Fairies, skip hence: I have forsworn his bed and company.
4th panel:
OBERON Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?
5th panel:
TITANIA Then I must be thy lady: but I know…
6th panel:
OBERON …Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?
Page 3
1st panel:
TITANIA These are the forgeries of jealousy:
2nd panel:
TITANIA And this same progeny of evils comes
From our debate, from our dissension;
We are their parents and original.
3rd panel:
OBERON Do you amend it then; it lies in you:
4th panel:
OBERON Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
Page 4
1st panel:
OBERON I do but beg a little changeling boy,
To be my henchman.
2nd panel:
TITANIA Set your heart at rest:
The fairy land buys not the child of me.
3rd panel:
TITANIA Fairies, away!
We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.
OBERON Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove
Till I torment thee for this injury.
I’m so happy that the work reached to runner-up!
Thank you millions!!
Romeo and Juliet by Chie Kutsuwada with gender bending twist! That romantic balcony scene. Hope you’ll enjoy it!
Chie Kutsuwada: website
Yaoi webcomic
Hamlet Graphic Shakespeare submission by Ron Tiner
Macbeth Act 1, Scene 1, by Karen Rubins
Hello, All. Here is my submission. All pages were painted in oil on 18″ x 24″ birch panels. Thanks!