Beaton's second collection of Hark! A Vagrant comics, Step Aside, Pops is out now Kate Beaton occupies a specific niche in the wide-ranging world of webcomics. Her comic, Hark! A Vagrant chiefly draws ...

Recent comics sensation Beaton probably, definitely, knows more about history and literature than the average reader, and this collection of her webcomic—mostly collections of three-panel gag—shows it ...

Canadian artist Kate Beaton, making unusual use of her history degree, has been making people laugh with her web comics at Hark! A Vagrant since 2007. Beaton puts historical, literary, and pop culture ...

Kate Beaton, the mind that gave us perky revolutionaries and a roly-poly Napoleon, now tells the darker side of her life story: how she suffered... Buried in the center of Kate Beaton's massive ...

Kate Beaton is planning a "different direction" for her next project. The award-winning cartoonist has been studying her hometown and its residents for the follow-up to Hark! A Vagrant. "I've been ...

Drawn & Quarterly has announced a new Hark! A Vagrant collection. Kate Beaton's beloved webcomic will return to the publisher with a new print edition titled Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant ...

Beaton, whose background is in history and anthropology, has a remarkable penchant for conveying the momentous through the inane, aided by a truly special gift for simple, subtle, incredibly ...

In the graphic novel Hark! A Vagrant, which was released last month, artist Kate Beaton explains, “Some time ago I packed my history degree into a suitcase and said goodbye to the world of working in ...

What if Anne Of Green Gables had never got the puffed-sleeve dress she so desperately wanted? What did Canada really think of Lester B. Pearson? Welcome to Kate Beaton’s world, distilled in comics ...