Ratings22
Average rating4.5
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. 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.
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. Hark! A Vagrant features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic Nancy Drew covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross.
Series
2 primary books3 released booksHark! A Vagrant is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2009 with contributions by Kate Beaton.
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Simply drawn and incredibly amusing. Educational as well. I didn't know an African-American, and not the white Robert Peary, was actually the first person to reach the Geographic North Pole. And Sexy Batman is sexy!
Why buy a book that collects strips that are available for free on the web? Because I like to own a hard copy of things that I enjoy reading again and again. That's why.