The Daily Heller: Hail Anchovius Caesar, the Greatest Romaine of All by Steven Heller Posted March 22, 2022
There’s more than one way to hail a Caesar or roast a pig. Author, editor and comics artist Sarah Boxer has broken codes and recast couplets, exposing the great William Shakespeare to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. As we emerge from this winter of our discontent, her recent reinterpretations of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, Hamlet and Julius Ceasar, provide ample raw material for a comic feast punctuated by the Bard’s iconic wordplay. These books, Hamlet: Prince of Pigs and Anchovius Caesar (Bunncoco Press/[email protected]), are not just for or by the seasoned punster. Boxer, who is also author of In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Beastiary, a series of cartoon case histories of all things Freudian and Mother May I?: A Post Freudian Folly, is a master of what Publisher’s Weekly calls “charming and quirkily resonant images and ideas.” I asked Boxer to explain her motivations for cooking up such a feast for ear and eye. |