Notes: Hark! A vagrant, Kate Beaton
Dear Kate Beaton, you and your book have shamed me into making an embarrassing public admission: I know nothing about Canadian history.
Right now my Canadian followers are smirking and eye-rolling and muttering something about !$&#!$ Americans. (My other non-U.S. followers are dusting off their geography jokes.) Dudes, I know! Which is why I’ll welcome any suggestion you might make in the comments about a one-volume overview of Canadian history.
Fortunately, Beaton also riffs on some American and European history I know—as well as literature. I’m good with the literature! If nothing else, Hark! A Vagrant—a book that basically repurposes material from the website—reminds me that comedy is contingent on familiarity. I giggled the most over Beaton’s Nancy Drew panels.
A quibble. I wish the author would resist the urge to comment on her own comics. They should be able to speak for themselves, you know? It’s like films with overbearing voiceover narration. Use that stuff sparingly.
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