Tragedy of Morty
1st edition, 1983, 30 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
2nd edition, February 1984, 30 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
3rd edition, May 1984, 30 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
4th edition, August 1984, 30 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
5th edition, November 1984, 30 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
6th edition, May 1985, 30 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
7th edition, October 1985, 30 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
8th edition, April 1986, 12 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.
Offered as a reprint-on-demand, 1994, regular digest size.
1st Danger Room Reprint edition, August 2005, 5 copies (3 blue, 2 red), regular digest size.
This five issue series (a book for each act) was started in Spring 1983 when I lived in Olympia and I brought the project with me across the state to Pullman when I moved there in June/July. The final act was finished at the start of 1985, meaning the whole thing took me over a year and half to draw.
Hamlet is my favorite play. Shakespeare threaded a lot of humor in this tragedy and I wanted to bring that out.
Keeping all five acts in print at the same time was not easy. The 12 copy print run of the 8th edition must've been some effort to top off a complete set.
Someday I want to publish all five acts under one cover. When I do the book will be just about 200 pages.
The final image on the above scroll can be ignored. Somehow my current self-portrait slipped in there.
The Diogenes Club
