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  Hark! A Vagrant (Hardback) By (author) Kate Beaton

  

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  Short Description for Hark! A Vagrant "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 This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content.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,
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  • Publisher: DRAWN & QUARTERLY
  • Published: 27 September 2011
  • Format: Hardback 166 pages
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  • Categories: Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs
  • ISBN 13: 9781770460607 ISBN 10: 1770460608
  • Sales rank: 9,800

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• FEATURED ON MORE THAN TWENTY BEST-OF LISTS, INCLUDING TIME, AMAZON, E! AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY! "" "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 unscasthed 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. 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.