Date Published: September 25, 2015 Format: Print Source: Library Date Read: May 16, 2019 Read for BoB Cycle 25 Blurb Cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with all-new sidesplitting comics that showcase her irreverent love of history, pop culture, and literature. Collected from her wildly popular website...
I always enjoy Kate Beaton's comics, even when I don't have any knowledge of the work she's referencing. My favorites from this collection are the Katherine Sui Fun Cheung comics.
I had heard a lot of good things about Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant and since the premise of it (historical parody + comics) sounded intriguing I naturally thought it would be a winner for me. Well, I can't in all honesty say that it was a winner in my books. There were certainly some comics that I...
As soon as I heard that Kate Beaton would have a new picture book out, I knew I had to have it. I love her art, and I also loved her previous picture book: The Princess and the Pony. This book is all about a baby who thinks he is a king, he acts like that as well, but sadly, as you can imagine his r...
Princess Pinecone wants to be a warrior and get cool trophies or weapons, but instead she tends to get big fuzzy sweaters. For her birthday this year, what she wants the more than anything is a horse. A big, brave, strong horse. A warrior horse, fit for the warrior princess that she is. Her parents ...
A farting pony, a racially and culturally diverse cast, a mixed race main character as a young princess with a desire to be a champion warrior only for her birthday, instead of a warhorse, she receives an adorable little pony. Sounds good so far. Despite the positive female 'girl power' role model...
The second Hark! A Vagrant collection is a tad hit and miss, but as far as I know Kate Beaton has cornered the market on online comic strips satirizing historical and fictional characters. My favorite bits were the parodies of Wuthering Heights and Wonder Woman. The strips about Archduke Ferdinand M...
When preparing to write this review, I got quite a surprise. I searched in the archives on my blog and on Goodreads to find my review of the first Hark! A Vagrant book and discovered that not only had I not reviewed it at any point, but I hadn't even entered it as read on Goodreads. I have absolutel...
Ok, that was a pretty lame pun. But...really Kate Beaton is so awesome. Even though I've read most of these comics on her website http://www.harkavagrant.com/ this is soo worth, not only checking out from the library, but buying for a personal library. Beaton's witty comics are sure to amuse tho...
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