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"Reason and love have little to do with each other"

28/2/2016

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So says Nick Bottom, with his head that of a donkey, to Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. But why did she fall in love with him at first sight, and despite the donkey head? And why has he been so transformed?

When I heard about a Graphic Shakespeare Competition, I knew I wanted to show this scene and undertake the challenge of fitting it into four A5 pages. (Another category allowed any scene, any number of pages - way too open-ended for me!) But without knowing a little backstory, the waking-up bit would be not just silly but completely incomprehensible.  And I really wanted to make the plot as clear as possible to those not familiar with the play. 

So using up part of one page with a 'previously' section meant the rest of the scene was even more squished, and though I paraphrased and reduced the dialogue as far as I could, it's still on the wordy side for a comic.  Anyway it was a lot of fun and I hope it gets the story across. 
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2/8/2022 01:54:10 pm

Greatt blog

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