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"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 This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content.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.
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Fiction, nyt:hardcover_graphic_books=2011-10-08, Pictorial Canadian wit and humor, New York Times bestseller, World history, Characters and characteristics in literature, Comic books, strips, Englisch, Canadian wit and humor, Comic, Feminism, Comics & graphic novels, literary, Histoire universelle, Bandes dessinées, Personnages dans la littérature, World history--comic books, strips, etc--fiction, Characters and characteristics in literature--comic books, strips, etc--fiction, Canadian wit and humor, pictorial, Pn6734.h37 b43 2011, 741.5/971Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Hark! A Vagrant
2011, Drawn & Quarterly, Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover
in English
- 1st hardcover ed.
1770460608 9781770460607
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Includes index.
"Originally published at www.harkavagrant.com" --T.p. verso.
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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.
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