She presently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a bachelor's degree in history and anthropology at Mount Allison University. Club on Kate BeatonĪbout the Author KATE BEATON grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada. A high-minded version of The Far Side that is at once of-the-moment and timeless.' -DEBORAH VANKIN, The Los Angeles Times on Kate Beaton 'Simply put, this is the most well-drawn, funniest comic that I've read in a while.' - ADRIENNE SO, Wired on Kate Beaton ' neat linework and terrific grasp of simple caricature and facial expression sells a lot of the best strips, including Sasaki Kojiro meeting an undignified end, Jane Austen and Nikola Tesla being pestered by their fans, and Lord Byron muttering 'Bitches, man' to a grieving Percy Bysshe Shelley. ' are witty reinventions of literary and historical figures navigating modern times. 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. 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. Anthony is, of course, a 'Samantha,' and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. 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. Whether she's writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense of the absurd to every situation.įEATURED ON MORE THAN TWENTY BEST-OF LISTS, INCLUDING TIME, AMAZON, E! AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY! 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.

This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Perceptive, sharp and wonderfully irreverent, Hark! A Vagrant is as informative as it is hilarious, and a comic collection to treasure.About the Book 'Hark! 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 historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down, excitable style. They also cover whatever's on her mind that week - be it the perils of city living or the pop-cultural infiltration of Sex and the City, featuring an array of characters, from a mischievous pony, to reinvented superheroes, to a surly teen duo who could be the anti-Hardy-Boys. It's pretty hard to argue with that when you're laughing your head off at a comic about Thucydides. The jokes are a knowing look at history through a very modern perspective, written for every reader, and are a crusade against anyone with the idea that history is boring. Praised for their expression, intelligence and comic timing, her cartoons are best known for their wonderfully light touch on historical and literary topics. She's making jokes about everything we learned in school, and more. Why? Because she's not just making silly jokes. Her website, Hark! A Vagrant, receives an average of 1.2 million hits a month, 500 thousand of them unique. Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a few. '.at once of-the-moment and timeless.' - The Los Angeles Times

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