Kate Beaton, Author of Hark! a Vagrant

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2011

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Kate Beaton authors the webcomic Hark! a Vagrant. The comic strips mine history and literature for figures to be reimagined and skewered as petulant children, jaded superheroes and Victorian dude-watchers, accented by a very expressive drawing style. Her comics have recently been collected into a book, also called Hark! a Vagrant.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael from Pittsburgh.
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0:14.0	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:18.0	It's the Sound of Young America from maximumfund.org and PRI,
0:22.0	public radio, international.
0:30.0	If the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:32.0	The World of Web Comics is a remarkable one.
0:36.0	One that is full of funny and beautiful and remarkable things
0:42.0	and often very geeky things.
0:44.0	But the World of Web Comics,
0:46.0	at not to this point, had much in the way of humanities geekery
0:50.0	until Kate Beaton hit the scene with her comic strip,
0:53.0	Hark of Vagrant.
0:55.0	It draws on the worlds of history and literature extensively
0:59.0	taking important historical figures down a notch
1:03.0	and generally making the world safe for, you know,
1:09.0	librarian-type nerds.
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