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Reading BeatonвЂ™s comics in batches also helps me to pinpoint her sense of humor. Beaton indirectly acknowledges the influence by devoting a number of comics to the impression that GoreyвЂ™s dust jackets give of the contents of the book they adorn clearly, she knows his work well. ItвЂ™s by no means a slavish copy of GoreyвЂ™s work, being less angular and less-detailed in the background, but the resemblance is obvious when you look at their work side by side. In particular, until reading the book, I donвЂ™t think I fully appreciated how much her loosely rendered style owes to Edward Gorey. And, unless IвЂ™m mistaken, Beaton has taken the opportunity to clean up the comics and rearrange them by subject matter вЂ“ although even online, she tends to publish small bursts of comics on the same subject at one time.ДЄnother advantage of the book is that it allows me to appreciate BeatonвЂ™s work more. Besides, the reproduction on the page is far better than on the screen. They are all available online, of course, but I believe in supporting artists whose work I admire. So far as I can figure, the collection includes all of the comics posted on the web from March 2009 to June or July 2011. Naturally, too, my productivity went out with the garbage the morning it arrived, as I eagerly read cover to cover. So naturally when her first collection came out, I pre-ordered it. Not only is the comic centered on literature and history, which happens to be my favorite reading material, but Beaton approaches both from a distinctly Canadian viewpoint as I do, as opposed to the usual American or English one. For an idea of the kind of stuff you can expect, go to Beaton's website, google Hark a Vagrant and see for yourself.For the last two years, Kate BeatonвЂ™s web comic вЂњHark! A VagrantвЂќ has been part of my morning reading before I settle down to work. 'The Facebook sirens' is great and 'Hipster Battalion' is about a WW2 regiment and had me laughing like a madman on the train ('Sir, H-Battalion have only liberated the cafes!').ДЄnyway, do you like comics? Do you like literature and history? Do you like to laugh? Buy this book. 'Sexy Batman' is hilarious as are riffs on other superheroes from Wonder Woman to Wolverine, Nancy Drew is a brilliant character as Beaton re-writes her as this inquisitive girl who gets everything wrong and makes things worse. What I have to get across though is how damn funny these strips are. The Bronte sisters, Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald, Hugo, Shakespeare, Hawthorne and countless other classic writers are made fun of as well as their works, and then there's loads of history stuff too, like the Tudors, US Presidents, Napoleon, and tons of other things too. Jane Austen is depicted as irritated by the Austen mania of recent years including the monster mash-ups and requests to write slushy sequels to 'Pride and Prejudice'. to put down women's independence, or Poe is beset by fan letters from Jules Verne, or 'Robinson Crusoe' is about Friday putting up with a retarded Englishman washing up on his island. Like 'Dracula' is about a slut-loving Count and the efforts of Van Helsing and co.

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Oh and they're incredibly funny! If, like me, you remember the 'Horrible Histories' series by Terry Deary and loved the cartoons in the books, it's like that minus the text, and similar to Nicolas Gurewitch's 'Perry Bible Fellowship' in terms of length of strip and humour.Д«eaton riffs on staples of literature by inserting 21st century sensibilities and contemporary comedy styling to make fun of them.

Hark! A Vagrant is an online comic of short strips written and drawn by Canadian artist Kate Beaton, centred mostly upon her interests in literature and history.

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