Comics In Motion

Indie Comic Spotlight: Creator Corner: Shakespeare Unleashed with James Aquilone

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Today, Tony is joined by Shakespearean Ac-TOR!, podcaster and all-around amazing human being Spider-Dan to talk to James Aquilone about his latest comic/prose book SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED!

Shakespeare Unleashed, edited by James Aquilone and published by Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing, is an anthology of horror short stories and sonnets inspired by the Bard's works. (There's a comic book, too. Scroll down for more info.)

Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet... all get the horror treatment...by some of the biggest names in the genre  — including Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Gemma Files, Seanan McGuire, Philip Fracassi, Lisa Morton, and Ian Doescher, author of William Shakespeare's Star Wars, William Shakespeare's Avengers and Deadpool Does Shakespeare.

Plus, an introduction by Weston Ochse, who is not only an award-winning horror writer — but has also taught Shakespeare!

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