Hark! A Vargrant

By Kate Beaton

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

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.