Handsome and hilarious, the six-panel stories in Hark! A Vagrant will undo all the uptightness about history instilled in you by academia, leaving you instead with a hearty laugh and some great lines for dinner party conversation. So if you learn or look up a thing or two after reading these comics, and you’ve enjoyed them, then I will be more than pleased! If you’re just in it for the silly stuff, then there is plenty of that to go around, too.” ~ Kate Beatonīeaton is also a masterful writer, her dialogue and captions adding depth to what’s already an absolute delight. Victoria Day of 'Hark, a Vagrant' by Kate Beaton'Victoria I always thought was a bit of a prude and a bore as far as monarchs go. I think comics about topics like history or literature can be amazing educational tools, even at their silliest. Loved the Goreys and the Nancy Drews These were by far my favourite pages, along with all the Bronte sister shenanigans. Beaton’s enthusiasm for her esoteric subject matter is matched by her skewed wit and breadth of knowledge. This book had me burst out laughing a few times, most notably during the book cover series which involved imagining the plot of the book based on the cover. From dude spotting with the Brontë Sisters to Nikola Tesla and Jane Austen dodging groupies, the six-panel vignettes will make you laugh out loud and slip you a dose of education while you aren’t paying attention. In a breezy time-hopping way, Beatons comics take on everything from the French Revolution, the Kennedys, and 15th Century Peasants, to the Bronte Sisters. These comic strips collected from her popular web comic Hark A Vagrant embrace the perennially unhip topics of science, history, and classic literature, and make them not only accessible, but also screamingly hilarious. Oh I love that comic Anne is indeed the best Bronte. He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, but because he’s more myself than I am. RoseIsBadWolf of Everingham Additional comment actions. Scientists and artists, revolutionaries and superheroes, suffragists and presidents - they’re all there, as antique hipsters, and they’re all skewered with equal parts comedic and cerebral prod.īeaton, whose background is in history and anthropology, has a remarkable penchant for conveying the momentous through the inane, aided by a truly special gift for simple, subtle, incredibly expressive caricature. The website for a society that studies the work of the Brontë sisters and preserves Emily and her sisters childhood home, Haworth, as a museum of their work. This is an excellent moment to add a link to one of my favorite Hark a Vagrant comics Reply. From New Yorker cartoonist Kate Beaton comes Hark! A Vagrant - a witty and wonderful collection of comics about historical and literary figures and events, based on her popular web comic of the same name.
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