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"Welcome to ""Hamlet: Prince of Pigs"" the first volume of the Shakespearean Tragic-Comics! Hamlet is a little pig, a little ham. Hamlet's uncle Claudius, the murderer, ""the bloat king,"" is a big fat hog. Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, is a pig with lipstick. Ophelia is a cat, because cats don't do well in water. The gravediggers are dogs because dogs love to bury bones. The players of the play within the play are mice because the play they act in is titled ""The Mousetrap."" The sentries are rats because, well, rats look handsome in helmets. You'll see that ""Hamlet: Prince of Pigs"" with words by Shakespeare and subtractions by Boxer, is stripped of all fat. And a pared-down Hamlet with animal actors is a funny Hamlet!"

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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 A delicious Shakespeare! ... Just fabulous. 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."

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