In a Kickstarter update involving Hamlet, Ophelia, and pizzas (don’t ask), Ryan North revealed that he’s working on a brand new choose-your-own adventure Shakespeare book in the same vein as his other Kickstarted choose-your-own adventure book, To Be or Not To Be. This time around, he’s tackling the classic toxic love story (seriously it’s not love) of Romeo & Juliet in Romeo and/or Juliet.
You can basically have love triangles on top of love triangles on top of love triangles in this one, folks. Oh, and I’m sure plenty of teenage angst. Yeah. Tons of that.
The lineup of artists for this one is absolutely KILLER and gets me so super excited. According to North’s post on his To Be or Not to Be Kickstarter, they are:
- Natasha Allegri – Bee and Puppycat
- John Allison – Bad Machinery
- Kate Beaton – Hark! A Vagrant
- Brandon Bird – all the paintings
- Boulet – Bouletcorp
- Vera Brosgol – Anya’s Ghost
- Emily Carroll – Through The Woods
- Alex Culang and Ray Castro – Buttersafe
- Anthony Clark – Nedroid
- Rebecca Clements – KinokoFry
- Tony Cliff – Delilah Dirk
- Becky Cloonan – Gotham Academy
- Eric Colossal – Rutabaga: Adventure Chef
- Matt Cummings – Power Up!
- Evan Dahm – Rice Boy
- Willow Dawson – Avis Dolphin
- Lar Desouza – Looking for Group
- Aaron Diaz – Dresden Codak
- Raw Fawkes – One Soul
- Jess Fink – We Can Fix It!
- Michael Firman – Moe!
- Meags Fitzgerald – Long Red Hair
- Gillian Goerz – Jerkface A-Hole
- Dara Gold – all the paintings!
- Zac Gorman – Magical Game Time
- Meredith Gran – Octopus Pie
- KC Green – He Is A Good Boy
- Nick Gurewich – The Perry Bible Fellowship
- Brice Hall – all the illustrations
- Dustin Harbin – DHARBIN!
- Chris Hastings – The Adventures of Doctor McNinja
- David Hellman – A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible
- Erica Henderson – The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
- Ian Herring – Ms. Marvel
- Tyson Hesse – Diesel
- Mike Holmes – Mikenesses
- Emily Horne – A Softer World
- Andrew Hussie – MS Paint Adventures
- Jeph Jacques – Questionable Content
- Chris Jones – Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle
- Dave Kellett – Drive
- John Keogh – all the illustrations
- Karl Kerschl – The Abominable Charles Christopher
- Eric Kim – The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare
- Jon Klassen – Sam and Dave Dig A Hole
- Lucy Knisley – French Milk
- Gisèle Lagacé – Ménage à 3
- Braden Lamb – The Midas Flesh
- Kate Leth – Kate or Die!
- Joe List – Freak Leap
- Sam Logan – Sam and Fuzzy
- Mike Maihack – Cleopatra in Space
- David Malki – Wondermark
- John Martz – A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories
- Brian McLachlan – Draw out the Story
- Kagan McLeod – Kaptara
- Dylan Meconis – Outfoxed
- Erika Moen – Oh Joy, Sex Toy
- Carly Monardo – all the illustrations
- Randall Munroe – XKCD
- Ethan Nicolle – Axe Cop
- Shelli Paroline – The Midas Flesh
- Emily Partridge – Adventure Time
- Justin Pierce – The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
- Nate Powell – You Don’t Say
- Joe Quinones – Howard the Duck
- Sara Richard – Kitty and Dino
- Mike Rooth – all the pictures
- Jon Rosenberg – Scenes from a Multiverse
- Andy Runton – Owly
- Marguerite Sauvage – Bombshells
- Evan “Doc” Shaner – all the illustrations
- Kean Soo – March: Grand Prix
- Kevin Jay Stanton – 1001 Knights
- Rich Stevens – Diesel Sweeties
- Noelle Stevenson – Nimona
- Annie Stoll – 1001 Knights
- Alex Thomas – Star Wars: The Old Republic
- David Troupes – Buttercup Festival
- Jeffrey Veregge – all the comics
- Michael Walsh – Secret Avengers
- Pen Ward – Adventure Time
- Zach Weinersmith – Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
- Lucie Whitehead – international woman of mystery
- Tony Wilson – Amazing Super Powers
- Sarah Winifred Searle – Fresh Romance
- Steve Wolfhard – Cat Rackham
- Chip Zdarsky – Sex Criminals
- Jim Zub – Wayward
Pre-orders are apparently up on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, BAM, iBooks, and IndieBound right now. If you funded To be Or not To Be, North suggests keeping your receipt for “surprises.” Oh boy, what could it be (or not to be)?!
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