Title: Hark! A Vargrant
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 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.
Subjects: Fiction, nyt:hardcover_graphic_books=2011-10-08, Pictorial Canadian wit and humor, New York Times bestseller, World history, Characters and characteristics in literature, Comic books, strips, Englisch, Canadian wit and humor, Comic, Feminism, Comics & graphic novels, literary, Histoire universelle, Bandes dessinées, Personnages dans la littérature, World history--comic books, strips, etc--fiction, Characters and characteristics in literature--comic books, strips, etc--fiction, Canadian wit and humor, pictorial, Pn6734.h37 b43 2011, 741.5/971