![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The seeds of all of these movements were happening: workers revolting, unions starting, people breaking off from monarchies. It was a time of real change, especially for the lower classes and for women. I gravitated toward the 18th and 19th centuries. Do you have a favorite historical period? You were a history and anthropology major in college. I sat down with Beaton to ask her about the art of being funny about history and books. That something became a popular website and now a book, also titled "Hark! A Vagrant" (a line from an old comic), just published by Drawn and Quarterly. "The response was way bigger than I ever imagined," she said recently over lunch. Raskolnikov tips off his own police nemesis by penning an Op-Ed titled "Murdering Old Ladies: Not Even a Big Deal."īeaton, a native of Nova Scotia who recently relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y., began writing comics about historical figures and characters from literature for her college newspaper her first strip offered tips for surviving a Viking invasion of campus. Inspector Javert from "Les Misérables" is detailed to the Bread Crimes Division. There are the three Brontë sisters, checking out surly guys: "So passionate!" "So mysterious!" "So brooding!" swoon Charlotte and Emily, while Anne Brontë (author of "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," in case you didn't know she existed), retorts, "If you like alcoholic dickbags!" "No wonder nobody buys your books," hisses Charlotte. The characters in Kate Beaton's hit webcomic, "Hark! A Vagrant," are familiar, and also not. ![]()
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