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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. 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: 09/27/2011
ISBN: 9781770460607
Pages: 166
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.14h x 8.04w x 0.84d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/12/2011
Booklist 10/15/2011 pg. 34
Quill & Quire 11/01/2011 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/07/2011 pg. 28
Quill & Quire Books of the Yr 12/01/2011 pg. 17
Library Journal 03/15/2012 pg. 98