num_pages: 168
description: 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 unscathbed 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 5600.000 unique monthly visitors to harkavagrant.com already know no one turns the ironic absurdities of history and literature into comedic fodder as hilarious as Beaton.
language: English
title: Hark! A Vagrant
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly