A vagrant is a largely historybased webcomic by kate beaton, best known for its historical comics, which are oneshots of varying length focusing on historical events or figures getting into pretty inaccurate situations. In december 2007 she asked her readers to suggest historical figures and promised to draw comics based on the first twenty submissions. Youve made some really amazing comics about feminism that are part of this new collection. Many of the comics are available as prints but not all of them. The origin of man, her comic celebrating charles darwins 200th birthday, was showcased by myspace dark horse presents in march 2009. Reviews have remarked on her mastery of facial expressions in particular. A vagrant is definitely the booklength kate beaton object of choice. No era or tome emerges unscathbed as beaton rightly skewers the western worlds revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and. Good comic shops that have taught me a thing or two. This was a sketch under the original straw feminist comic but i redrew it for the book. A vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of new yorker cartoonist and comics sensation kate.
Kate beaton is a canadian history graduate who has turned her hand to drawing hilarious comic strips about history and literature. Their comic is a constant joy overflowing with sight gags, maths jokes and strange marvel trivia. Mar 23, 2012 somehow, i missed last years publication of the longoverdue hark. No era or tome emerges unscathed as beaton rightly skewers the western worlds revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the bestloved. A vagrant literary calendar mr rochester as the gypsy read hero complex from the l. A vagrant, a compilation of comics from the site with some. Somehow, i missed last years publication of the longoverdue hark.
No era nor tome is left unscathed as beaton rightly skewers the western worlds revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains. She redrew the historical and literary landscape with her breakout web comic and book, hark, a vagrant. A vagrant collection is perfect for fans of her work both new and old. If you have anything youd like to ask, write to this address. This elicits the question of why on earth beaton is so popular. This is the second book of her work, after the selfpublished never learn anything from history last year, but its much larger 168pp vs 68pp, contains a bunch of notes on the comics from beaton, and is vastly more widely available, so hark. A vagrant takes readers on a romp through history and literaturewith dignity for few and cookies for allwith comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in kate beatons pareddown, excitable style. Artist kate beaton began this project while drawing comics for a student newspaper in college, where she was studying history and anthropology. Beaton began her infectiously popular web comic, hark.
A vagrant is a brilliant collection of beatons web comics. I didnt think it would be when i stepped away to work on other projects, but not to kill the light mood around here 20162018 were very difficult years in a personal sense, and emerging on the other side, i feel like this is a project that has run its course. Quite a few literary and historical jokes in her comics, so would make a great gift for a big brained history buff. An educated roast actual fire used for scientific purposes duration. Its a rare superhero book in which the outcome of a climactic battle is often that everyone wins. A scanned jane eyre comic from kate beatons hark a vagrant. Beatons distinctive drawing style is loose and light, and has been compared to the illustrations of quentin blake. A vagrant collection, armed with modernsounding quips and amusingly onpoint repartee. Yesterday morning, the hooded utilitarian posted my list along with 21 others who contributed to a giant survey of comic book creators, retailers, publishers, educators, commentators like me and other industry folk from all over the world to determine the 10 best comics. The cartoonist spoke with cbr about her new childrens book starring everyones favorite pony her new hark. She talks to the guardian about feminism and the canadian oil sands. A vagrant is drawn in black and white with pens, watercolours, brush pens, and a wacom tablet in later comics.
Beyond the sophistication of beatons art and her genuine wit, hark. Go rectify the situation immediately and while youre at it, go buy kate beatons first book hark. A vagrant, such as it is, is an archive website now. Beaton perfectly melds simplistic, yet endearing drawings with witty, sometimes crude, but always hilarious commentary. This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content.
Ive been reading her web comic for a while, and it was great to reread some of my favorite ones and to discover newtome ones. 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. Wells, the black prince, and benito juarez burst off the pages of step aside, pops. History and comic book things are fun but its nice for everyone to be on the same page too. A vagrant is a newly expanded collection of her witty, literate comics. A vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of new yorker cartoonist and comicssensation kate beaton. From dna to jfk, a comic take on history joe kennedy lectures burping baby ted on political ambition while teenagers joe jr. It was an unequivocal hit with critics and fans alike, topping bestoftheyear lists from e. Cartoonist kate beaton irreverently recasts history and classic literature in her new book.
This book has a barcode, but it is just a barcode, with no numbers underneath. A vagrant is a webcomic by canadian artist kate beaton. No era or tome emerges unscathed as beaton rightly skewers the western worlds revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the bestloved fiction. The book works as a complex meditation on identity and morality, but its also a huge addition to the body of narrative gamesmanship surrounding hp lovecraft, who lived. A vagrant revisits historical events and characters from a feminist light. A vagrant takes readers on a romp through history and literature with dignity for few and cookies for all with comic strips about famous.
A vagrant was named one of the top ten fiction books of the year by time. Nov 03, 2011 kate beaton has become a web comic superstar with her hilarious look at historical and pop culture tropes from julius caesar to gatsby. Running a comic is different for everyone, and i can only really speak from my own experience, but hopefully ill have something worth telling by this point. Dec 02, 20 this year well be celebrating the release of his new comic book series the midas flesh as well as his work on adventure time and dinosaur comics, and our cartooning friends joey comeau a softer world, bravest warriors and kate beaton hark, a vagrant. This is a book of comic strips by a new yorker cartoonist.
A vagrant takes readers on a romp through history and literature with dignity for few and cookies for all with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and. A halifax illustrator friend of mine, sydney smith, finally made. Beatons work has been profiled in wired, macleans, and comic book resources. A vagrant, in 2007 and it quickly attracted the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans. All the comics on this list are available as prints, except for those that dont say print available 1. Its the beguiling, dinosaur comics, hark a vagrant. She uses humor to go through some of historys greatest figures, and gives a funny look at history. A vagrant history comics by kate beaton metafilter. The beguiling, toronto strange adventures, halifax legends comics and books, victoria desert island, brooklyn all content c20062018 kate beaton. Times, covering science fiction, superheroes and fantasy. We talked with cartoonist kate beaton about her great comic hark. Beaton began drawing historythemed comics for her student newspaper while studying history and anthropology at mount allison university. Now beaton returns with a refined pen, ready to make jokes at the expense of. A vagrant won the 2011 ignatz award for outstanding online comic.