Hark! A Vagrant - by Kate Beaton (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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. This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether she's writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense of the absurd to every situation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>FEATURED ON MORE THAN TWENTY BEST-OF LISTS, INCLUDING TIME, AMAZON, E! AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY! <p/><i>Hark! A Vagrant </i>is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of <i>New Yorker</i> cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. 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.<br> 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. Anthony is, of course, a Samantha, and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. <i>Hark! A Vagrant</i> features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic <i>Nancy Drew</i> covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross. As the 500,000 unique monthly visitors to harkavagrant.com already know, no one turns the ironic absurdities of history and literature into comedic fodder as hilariously as Beaton.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[Beaton's comics] are witty reinventions of literary and historical figures navigating modern times . . . A high-minded version of <i>The Far Side </i>that is at once of-the-moment and timeless." --DEBORAH VANKIN, <i>The Los Angeles Times on Kate Beaton</i> <p/>"Simply put, this is the most well-drawn, funniest comic that I've read in a while." --<i>ADRIENNE SO, Wired on Kate Beaton</i> <p/>"[Beaton's] 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. A-" --<i>The Onion, The A.V. Club on Kate Beaton</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>KATE BEATON</b> grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada. She earned a bachelor's degree in history and anthropology at Mount Allison University. She presently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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