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Hark! A Vagrant
Author:
Beaton, Kate
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Class:
741.5697
Age: Adult
Language: English
Demand: Moderate
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LC: PN6733.B
Print Run: 15000
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ISBN-13: 9781770460607
LCCN: 2011505458
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
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Pub Date: 09/27/2011
Availability: Available
List: $19.95
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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166 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
H 8.78",
W 8.24",
D 0.83",
1.58 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Graphic Novels: Humor
Brodart's Public Library Graphic Novel Picks
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Fiction Core Collection, 16th ed. and Supplements
Fiction Core Collection, 17th ed.
Fiction Core Collection, 18th ed.
Graphic Novel Core Collection, 4th ed.
New York Times Bestsellers: Graphic Novels
Senior High Core Collection, 19th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 20th ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 21st ed.
Senior High Core Collection, 22nd ed.
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Awards:
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Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
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Starred Reviews:
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Publishers Weekly
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TIPS Subjects:
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Comics
Humor
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BISAC Subjects: |
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary
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LC Subjects:
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Canadian wit and humor, Pictorial
Characters and characteristics in literature, Comic books, strips, etc
Characters and characteristics in literature, Fiction
Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc., Canada
World history, Comic books, strips, etc
World history, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Comic books, strips, etc., Canada
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 06/01/2011 |
| In this collection of favorite and previously unpublished stories, Beaton takes readers on a romp through history and literature with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures. Whether its Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a sense of the absurd to every situation. (Graphic Material) 160pp b/w ill. Author res: NY. 10-Digit ISBN: 1770460608; 13- Digit ISBN: 9781770460607 BRODART CO., c2011. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 09/12/2011 |
| Recent comics sensation Beaton probably, definitely, knows more about history and literature than the average reader, and this collection of her webcomic--mostly collections of three-panel gag--shows it. But while her comics are pungent with the aroma of authentic knowledge, they wear it lightly, with a jittery humor that's surprisingly effective given the lashings of irony that Beaton layers on top. While she's perfectly content to base her cartoon strips around lesser-known figures (criminal 'masterminds' Burke and Hare, anyone?), most of her cartoons put people like the Bronte sisters or Jules Verne out there and wryly undercut them with mock pulp headlines and dishy asides. While the focus in Beaton's rip-quick and squiggly drawings is getting a good joke out of, say, the death of French general Montcalm or playing to the world's ignorance of even the most basic facets of Canadian history and culture, she also drops in some sharp literary criticism. If she had pushed her faux naif outrageousness any further, Beaton might have ventured too far into Sarah Vowellesque flipness. But this is that rarest combination of literate irony and devastatingly funny humor--when was the last time you read a comic strip collection that not only has but needs an index? (Nov.). 168pg. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2011. |
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| BookPage | 11/01/2011 |
| What if Susan B. Anthony were on 'Sex and the City'? Or Odysseus checked out Facebook? Or Brahms fell asleep during a Liszt concert? Those are just a few of the many hilarious historical oddities pondered by Kate Beaton, creator of the celebrated Hark! A Vagrant. She began the weekly webcomic in 2007, and today, her website gets 1.2 million monthly hits. In Hark! A Vagrant she takes a fresh and funny look at the literary canon (noting that Robinson Crusoe's Friday got a raw deal, and the Brontes romanticized 'douchey behavior'), plus politics, science, gangsters, saints...whatever inspires her skilled pen and sharp mind. 168pg. BOOKPAGE, c2011. |
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| Booklist | 10/15/2011 |
| Beaton's erudite, anachronistic webcomic gag strips have become something of a sensation over the past five years. With targets from literature (Dude Watchin' with the Brontes; The Adventures of Sexy Batman) and history (Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, anyone?), her humor is an exercise in both feeling smart and appreciating a well-timed poop joke. With hilarious economy, she's able to sum up the entirety of something like Crime and Punishment and then summarily deflate it in a handful of strips, if not words (Porfiry is tipped off by Raskolnikov's article, Murdering Old Ladies: Not Even a Big Deal). And while the artwork has a kind of effortless, dashed-off quality to it, don't be fooled: the precisely rendered figures and facial expressions are often just as crucial to delivering the punch lines as the jokes themselves. If you didn't know there was much funny stuff in Kierkegaard, Kepler, or King Lear, think again. Better yet, let Beaton show you. Ian Chipman. 168pg. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2011. |
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| Library Journal | 03/15/2012 |
| The dumbing-down of American education may be overestimated, based on the extravagant praise lavished upon this web-comic: you need more than a passing howdy with history and literature to get most of the jokes. Suffragettes dish about men like Sex in the City vixens. Tesla, Edison, and Marconi steal one another's inventions. Annabel Lee returns to Poe, but she's such a bummer. Jane, Mr. Rochester, and Bertha act out the love triangle from hell. Three Dr. Watsons vie for Holmes's attention. Friday gets his licks in against Robinson Crusoe. Watson and Crick snoop into Rosalind Franklin's research report. An especially funny set of strips proposes loopy plots based on a book's cover. Beaton's success certainly proves you can do something novel with a humanities degree. While she has self-published previous collections, all of these strips are new. VERDICT Beaton's loose and engaging black-and-white satires peer into the past through a modern lens, requiring knowledge of her source materials coupled with an appreciation for crackpot lunacy. A real find for class assignments and culture-watchers, high school and up. With occasional F-bombs and sexual references.—M.C. Martha Cornog. 160p. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2012. |
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| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 05/19/2011 |
| Beaton's witty webcomic riffs on history and literature with a 'refined sense of the absurd.' Marat in his tub plays with a rubber duckie, to the exasperation of nemesis Charlotte Corday. Jane Austen, quill-penning her next manuscript, must suffer a fan who wants another story about hunky dreamboat Darcy. A mermaid decides to learn Michael Jackson songs to lure a modern sailor to his death. Lord Byron and Percy Shelley commiserate about women. Beaton's comics have also appeared in Harper's Magazine, the National Post, and The New Yorker. Read the webcomic here. 160pg. LJ BookSmack! Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2011. |
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