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Anchovius Caesar: The Decomposition of a Romaine Salad, the second volume of the Shakespearean Tragic-Comics, is a remake of Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar. In this comic, many of the main characters are the key ingredients a Caesar salad. The star is a little fish named Anchovius Caesar. The Roman citizens, played by Romaine lettuce leaves, sway this way and that, cheering for Caesar one moment and for Brutus the next. The countrymen are crouton-men. Mark Antony is a mock anchovy, a sprat. As we know from Shakespeare and history, the salad state cannot hold. Numerous creatures - Brutus, a weasel, Cassius, a crocodile, Trebonius, a fluorescent Kaputar pink slug (a Triboniophorus), Casca, a deadly Cascabel rattlesnake, and a host of other killers - are on the loose! Anchovius must die!

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Comics artist Sarah Boxer has broken codes and recast couplets, exposing the great William Shakespeare to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. - Steve Heller, Print Magazine Beyond charming-a labor of love and a complete pleasure. May there be many more! - Gish Jen, author of The Resisters I adore Anchovius and Hamlet - Jonathan Lethem, author of Fortress of Solitude A delicious Shakespeare! ... A remarkable way to visit the bard without having to spend hours in narrow, ill designed seats. - Van Gordon Sauter, former president CBS News

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"Sarah Boxer, a writer, critic, and cartoonist from Colorado, is the author of two psychoanalytic comics, ""In the Floyd Archives,"" based on Freud's case histories, and its sequel, ""Mother May I?"" based lightly on the works of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott. She's also the editor of the anthology ""Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web"" and the creator of two Shakespearean Tragic-Comics, ""Hamlet: Prince of Pigs"" and ""Anchovius Caesar: The Decomposition of a Romaine Salad."" Boxer's essays and criticism appear in the Atlantic, the NY Review of Books, the Comics Journal, Artforum, and numerous anthologies, including ​""The Peanuts Papers,"" ""Rereading America,"" and ""The Best American Comics Criticism."" From 1989 to 2006 Boxer worked at the New York Times, where she was, at various points, a photo critic, a Web critic, an arts reporter, and an editor at the NYT Book Review. Julius Boxer-Cooper, an award winning cartoonist from Washington, D.C., is a student at Bennington College and a classical, jazz, and rock musician who plays flute, drums, marimba, and hand percussion."

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