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Author: Kate Beaton ,
Kate Beaton
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Imprint: Drawn & Quarterly
Dimensions:
Width: 20.80cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.10cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781770462083
ISBN 10: 1770462082
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 15 September 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""...Hilarious and hyper-literate."" --Entertainment Weekly ""Beaton's work is in a class all its own."" --Bust ""Step Aside, Pops, reminds us why it's been a blessing that Beaton has enjoyed the free-range evolution of an auteur."" --Washington Post ""Step Aside, Pops: a new Hark! A Vagrant collection that delights and dazzles."" --Boing Boing ""The range and singular wit of her brilliant historical, literary and pop-culture parodies is simply impossible to capture in just a few words.""--The Guardian ""From Julius Caesar to The Secret Garden and from the late Romantics to Kokoro, Beaton knocks it out of the park, having a go at anything and everything with her razor-sharp wit.""-Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Hark! A Vagrant is the wittiest book of the year. -- Time Top Ten of Everything 2011 Hark! A Vagrant [is] an entertaining and anachronistic send-up of canonical texts. -- The Economist [Kate Beaton's comics] are witty reinventions of literary and historical figures navigating modern times. -- Los Angeles Times
...Hilarious and hyper-literate. --Entertainment Weekly Beaton's work is in a class all its own. --Bust Step Aside, Pops, reminds us why it's been a blessing that Beaton has enjoyed the free-range evolution of an auteur. --Washington Post Step Aside, Pops: a new Hark! A Vagrant collection that delights and dazzles. --Boing Boing The range and singular wit of her brilliant historical, literary and pop-culture parodies is simply impossible to capture in just a few words. --The Guardian From Julius Caesar to The Secret Garden and from the late Romantics to Kokoro, Beaton knocks it out of the park, having a go at anything and everything with her razor-sharp wit. -Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Hark! A Vagrant is the wittiest book of the year. Time Top Ten of Everything 2011 Hark! A Vagrant [is] an entertaining and anachronistic send-up of canonical texts. The Economist [Kate Beaton's comics] are witty reinventions of literary and historical figures navigating modern times. Los Angeles Times
Author Information
Kate Beaton was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. After graduating from Mount Allison University with a double degree in History and Anthropology, she moved to Alberta in search of work that would allow her to pay down her student loans. During the years she spent out West, Beaton began creating webcomics under the name Hark! A Vagrant, quickly drawing a substantial following around the world. The collections of her landmark strip Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops each spent several months on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list, as well as appearing on best of the year lists from Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR Books, and winning the Eisner, Ignatz, Harvey, and Doug Wright Awards. She has also published the picture books King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. Beaton lives in Cape Breton with her family.
