No Fear Shakespeare Comix (finally!)

I've been meaning to post about this series for a while, but I'd been waiting till Spark Publishing put up some kind of splashy advertisement on its homepage ... I'm still hoping that'll happen, but in the meantime, I just saw that Neil Babra posted a fascinating essay about his experiences working on the Hamlet edition (pictured here), so I figured, what the hell.


I took over as series editor of the No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels sometime in the middle of the first book's development, and saw them through their completion this past fall. The three books in the series--Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth--are based on SparkNotes' insanely popular No Fear Shakespeare series, and each was drawn by a different, incredibly talented cartoonist. (Here's a link to Matt Wiegle talking about Romeo, and here's Ken Hoshine's homepage.) 

I'm prouder of this series than almost anything else I've been involved with, and I think they are truly beautiful, phenomenal books. You can find them in the Shakespeare section of your local B&N, or online here.