Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col, the creators of IDW’s controversial Kill Shakespeare comic book series are undertaking a two-week signing and convention tour of England, appearing at the Bristol Comic Expo as well as the Kapow! Comic Convention this month. They will be joined at Kapow! by series artist Andy Belanger.
“We’re quite interested to see what people in England think of our take on the Bard,” says McCreery. “We expect some nay-sayers but we’re eager to show everyone that this project is just as vital a reflection of the Bard’s work as anything coming out of the Globe Theatre or Stratford-on-Avon.”
Additionally, IDW will be releasing a new printing of Kill Shakespeare Vol.1: Sea Of Troubles, originally released in April, 2010. The collection is the first half of the series that pits the Bard’s greatest heroes against his most menacing villains in a quest to track down and kill – or save – a wizard by the name of William Shakespeare.
Despite a scathing denouncement from Shakespearean scholar Kimberly Cox, Kill Shakespeare has received critical acclaim and McCreery and Del Col have received their second straight Joe Shuster Award nomination for Best Writing in a comic series.