Jimmy Olsen, Timon of Athens' Pal

OK, over at the Valve I've been dutifully linking to various illustrations of famous Shakespeare plays. It's an interesting fact that lots of those plays started out as comics, early in Shakespeare's career, when he was working at DC in the late 60's. Scholars are only beginning to study the ways in which Shakespeare's genius adapted the sequential visual art medium to the so-called 'stage'. (At first, many famous plays - Hamlet and King Lear - were billed to the dull masses as 'graphic novels for the stage'.)

Example: here is a page from the (admittedly only semi-successful) title, "Jimmy Olsen, Timon of Athen's Pal". Click for larger image.

Comments

[yabonn]

I thought you had this covered already, but I'm not sure.

So if not, think of the possibilities.

[Gary Farber]

"It's an interesting fact that lots of those plays started out as comics, early in Shakespeare's career, when he was working at DC in the late 60's."

Shakes did most of his best work during the Golden Age, in the Forties, not towards the end of the Silver Age.

Although I do blame Mort Weisinger for the worst excesses of Titus Andronicus.

[Hero]

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