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Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Robinson Crusoe, King Lear, and many others, all get their serious ideas shredded for some pointed laughs.īeaton also get some yuks from history with insights on some well-known topics like the French Revolution and the Founding Fathers, but also enjoying sport with the obscurity (at least to us) of Canadian history, and the downtroddenness of “every lady scientist who ever did anything till now.”īut writing any more just continues to prove that Kate Beaton’s writing is way funnier than mine, so the best thing you can do is grab a copy of one of her books, or click onto her website and enjoy plenty of those satisfying I’ve-just-understood-an-obscure-reference chuckles. Hark! A Vagrant opens with ‘Dude Watching with the Brontes’ (“So brooding!”), has a poke at the Scottish Play when one of the three weird sisters can’t meet up when the hurly burly’s done because she has a dental appointment on her calendar, has Nancy Drew’s Ghost of Blackwood Hall playing Bennie and the Jets, and compresses Crime and Punishment into 24 panels, the key clue being Raskolnikov’s article “Murdering Old Ladies: Not Even a Big Deal”. The helpful and funny footnotes aid comprehension, though not in an entirely straightforward way.Ĭollected from a long-running website, the short strips are mainly grouped around satirical literary themes. The black and white drawings are deceptively simple, but the characters’ expressions embellish many of the jokes. The comics are witty, erudite, supersmart (though definitely not above a fart joke), have a feminist bent, and make me laugh harder than anything I’ve read or seen in ages. We’ve had several of the comic strips up in my library and, though it was a bit of a slow burn, they now have many committed fans among the cool young cognescenti. #CBR7 Book 115: "4:50 from Paddington" by Agatha C.Hark! A Vagrant is not strictly YA, but nonetheless has enormous appeal to older teens.#CBR7 Book 118: "The Liar" by Nora Roberts.#CBR7 Book 119: "Six Impossible Things" by Fiona Wood.#CBR7 Book 120: "Sorcerer to the Crown" by Zen Cho.#CBR7 Book 121: "Cold-Hearted Rake" by Lisa Kleypas.
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#CBR7 Book 128: "Wicked Intentions" by Elizabeth Hoyt.In her first book, highlights include Dude Watching with the Brontës: One of her most popular creations, the little fat pony, is now the star of its own book and you can also get little plush versions of it (just in case anyone was wondering what I'd like for Christmas). She frequently takes history or literature as inspiration for her very funny comics, drawn in a simplistic style. Back then I was more selective about what I reviewed for my Cannonball, but still - how could I not have spread the word about the genius that is Kate Beaton?įor those who don't know, Ms Beaton is a Canadian web comic creator with a background in history.
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As a bonus, the book included new strips, never before published on her website! The book was a clear five star read for me - I have no idea why I never got round to blogging about it. I have absolutely no idea why, as I got the first book back in 2011 and was extremely happy that Kate Beaton was finally collecting some of her amazing comics in book form. I searched in the archives on my blog and on Goodreads to find my review of the first Hark! A Vagrant book and discovered that not only had I not reviewed it at any point, but I hadn't even entered it as read on Goodreads. When preparing to write this review, I got quite a surprise.