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Canadian Illustrator Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant

Canadian Illustrator Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant

A sharp pencil, shrewd sense of history and effective use of incisive wit make for an exceptional Toronto based, female illustrator.

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Wonder Woman by Kate Beaton on harkavagrant.com

Kate Beaton makes comics about Mary Seacole, Marie Curie, Susan B Anthony, The Brontës, Canadians, superheros, fat ponies, and more. Beaton lampoons historical and literary figures across the board. Her lively drawings and sharp wit have us laughing our way through our midweek. She launched her website Hark! A Vagrant in 2007, which according to the Paris Review receives more than a million hits each month.

More about the illustrator, in her own words:

Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Halifax, and then New York, and then back to Toronto. Maybe the moon next time, who knows.

The latest Hark! A Vagrant collection, Step Aside Pops is available as a convenient paper bound package. For everyday fun make sure to follow Kate Beaton on Twitter.

 

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Susan B. Antony may not approve.

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Dude Watchin’ with the Brontes

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“Florence Nightingale should can it!” Crimean War Nurse Mary Seacole FTW.

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Bummer History with Laura Secord

 

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Check your closets for Straw Feminists!

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