As the 500,000 unique monthly visitors to already know, no one turns the ironic absurdities of history and literature into comedic fodder as hilariously as Beaton. Hark! A Vagrant features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic Nancy Drew covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross. The reason is easy - if you read about the things Ida Wells fought against. I gave an interview for the Appendix Journal, and cited her as a figure Id like to make a comic about, but found it a hard thing, so that it never happened. Hark A Vagrant (September 2011) Drawn & Quarterly, 2011 Series Published in English (Canada) Price 19.95 USD 19.95 CAD Pages 176 On-sale Date. Anthony is, of course, a “Samantha,” and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. Book 1 Hark A Vagrant by Kate Beaton 4.21 24448 Ratings 1767 Reviews published 2011 26 editions Hark A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through hist Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton 4. Ida If shes not your hero, she should be. She deftly points out what really happened when Brahms fell asleep listening to Liszt, that the world’s first hipsters were obviously the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses from eighteenth-century France, that Susan B. No era or tome emerges unscathed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world’s revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction. Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Halifax, and then New York, and then back to Toronto, and then back once again to rural Nova Scotia. Its been a while since Ive done some of these small batches I have a new job at a museum, it is cool to be doing that again too. Featured on more than twenty best-of lists, including Time, Amazon, E!, and Publishers Weekly!
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