If you have a kid who wants to see the fat pony from their favorite picture book (who does appear here), this is probably not a great choice. A quick note - this book is definitely rated R. Her hatred of the brooding romantic hero created by two out of three Bronte sistersĪnd especially Hamlet’s overdone moping. Her take on the ridiculousness of The Great Gatsby I also enjoyed her take on hipsters during the French Revolution, ruining everything for everyone, just like today! Nothing is sacred.īeaton provides entertaining and somewhat educational footnotes for some of the historical events…I, for one, was unaware of much of the political history of Canada, so that was helpful for me. Canadians, the Founding Fathers of the United States, the Bronte Sisters, Nancy Drew, hipsters, and fans of Jane Austen mash-ups. Rochester and giggles at the problematic lives of peasants in Medieval England. View all posts by Biblioklept Post navigation. Emily Brontë, Gothic romance, Hark A Vagrant, Humor, Kate Beaton. Hark A Vagrant is a collection of Kate Beaton’s eclectic cartoon strips. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Hark A Vagrant has sold out at conventions across the country and entered the New York Times 'Graphic Hardcover Books' Best Sellers list at 1 the week of its debut. Next time you run by my wife, Calpurnia, give her a good punch, will you->Mark Antony: Why. At Hark A Vagrant, Kate Beaton riffs some more on Wuthering Heights.
In this volume, Beaton pretty much makes fun of everything and everyone. >Caesar: Antony, youre a big strapping fellow. She says at the start of the book that she was a history major who always found herself cartooning when she was supposed to be taking notes in class. It was interesting to learn more about her through her perspective of historical events. My youngest is a big fan of her award-winning picture books like King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. I knew a little bit of her work before picking this book up. As you might imagine, my thoughts are a bit discombobulated…trying to remember which book had annoying New York helicopter parents, and which had an alien race of teenage girls…but this one was easy to remember because it had no plot and was simply a collection of cartoons from Kate Beaton. I got through six, but that wasn’t all of them.
It turns out that there were more than I thought. So, I spent some time attempting to finish all of the books sitting around the house that I had gotten halfway through. This past week was our Spring Break, and we didn’t go anywhere. Hark A Vagrant is a largely history-based Webcomic by Kate Beaton, best known for its historical comics, which are one-shots of varying length focusing on historical events or figures getting into pretty inaccurate situations.
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