book project #1

…about that September 7th start-up date for the comic.

I fibbed a bit. This being a weird week (with Labor Day and all) I thought I’d start things up by posting a couple of odds and ends I’ve been working on over the summer and at the start of the school year. Teacher comics will begin again in earnest on September 13th.

Here’s today’s post, though. I’m going to stay purposely vague here and say in the last few months, I’ve been working on an project with some like-minded folks that deals with teaching Shakespeare in high school. The guys who are writing this book asked me to draw a couple of illustrations for the book. This is the first one:

You will of course recognize these lines as coming from Act III, Scene V of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. More to come tomorrow.