This is a Kate Beaton post.

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

What ho, Scans_Daily! Have some Kate Beaton comics.

For the history geeks:







And the Lit nerds:







James Joyce's dirty letters. NSFW or brain.

ETA: Her website! http://harkavagrant.com/

Comments

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Oh HELL YES!

I bought her book "Never Learn Anything From History" this weekend! Awesomeness.

[darklorelei.insanejournal.com]

Jealous! I'm glad they've sold out. I really don't have the cash to spare, but DO WANT.

[danielolsen.insanejournal.com]

Kate Beaton... book?

I need this like I need air.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Voila (http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=BEAT-NEVER-BOOK&Category_Code=BEAT)!

I thought it was sold out, but maybe it's not.

[besamim.insanejournal.com]

It still says "Temporarily sold out" in red on that store page.

Damn. I went to TCAF on Sunday hoping to buy it from her and maybe tastefully gush a bit, but wouldn't you know it, she'd sold out of all 200 copies Saturday. When it was pouring and hailing like crap and I didn't feel like going out. Why do you mock me, O Lord? Ah well, I'll keep an eye out for the second print run.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

I had noticed that when the books first went on sale online they sold out really quickly, so on Saturday the first thing I did was hunt down her table and buy the book. I wanted to gush about how much I love the comics, but I was too shy. *headdesk* But she signed my book and drew a funny little cow inside the cover, which was very nice.

When it was pouring and hailing like crap and I didn't feel like going out.

That hail was INSANE! Weird thing is I remember the same thing happened around this time last year.

[danielolsen.insanejournal.com]

Curse my European-ness.

...I hope it has an ISBN.

[mechanicaljewel.insanejournal.com]

Unfortunately it does not. But I'm fairly sure TopatoCo ships to Europe, once it reprints.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Looking at my copy, it does not appear to have one.

[darklorelei.insanejournal.com]

Kate Beaton is my favorite ever.

[merseybeatler.insanejournal.com]

...I've never seen any of this before


AND IT'S AWESOME.

[shadeedge.insanejournal.com]

I'd never seen the Orwell one before!

Kate Beaton's great.

[mari_redstar.insanejournal.com]

I find Wondy-with-cigarette disturbingly attractive. Also it's making me want to read ten jillion issues where she goes to bars with Lady Blackhawk and they beat people at pool and drink gallons of beer (Zinda) and wine (Diana) and get into barfights, and Zinda says "Man, it's just like old times when I used to do this with your mother! No, wait, did that still have happened?" and they debate the timeline, always hilarious when you're drunk. (I dunno where this bar is, that the inhabitants are people Diana feels it would be fair to get into fights with. Possibly it's one of those multidimensional ones you find occasionally.)

[bean_montag.insanejournal.com]

Wait, what? Did you just make this up? Is it real? You're saying it like it might be real.

Goddamnit. You're making this up.

[mari_redstar.insanejournal.com]

Um. Sorry.

Think of it this way: if it only exists in the realm of possibility, it could possibly have fantastic art. You know if it existed in reality odds are it would wind up being drawn by someone who believed breasts to be hemispherical and unaffected by gravity.

Maybe they could swing by and pick up Cowgirl? She and Zinda can have a flygirl bonding session, and Oracle- who is barhopping with them by remote via Zinda's earpiece- can tell her all the most embarrassing stories she knows (which is to say all of them) about Hal, it'll be hilarious.

[sessile29.insanejournal.com]

OMFG THOSE LETTERS REALLY ARE THAT BAD DX

The rest of this is awesome, though. :D

[erlgirl_9.insanejournal.com]

Inorite. I pretty much made the same face when I (out of morbid curiosity) went to look them up. I CAN NEVER TAKE J JOYCE SERIOUSLY EVER AGAIN D:

[merseybeatler.insanejournal.com]

DITTO.

D:

[lissa_quon.insanejournal.com]

I'm going to need therapy after those letters.

Why did I click that link!?

[sailorlibra.insanejournal.com]

The weird thing is that after all the time I've spent on here... Those letters were nothing. I was almost disappointed.

[skitty_kat.insanejournal.com]

Me too. I've spent too long on the internet and read too much filthy fanfic that it was just, well, interesting, I suppose. Has the novelty of being between real people. :)

[hyperactivator.insanejournal.com]

OMG that is my cat.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

That is everyone's cat.

[bluejaybirdie.insanejournal.com]

Heh. I just finished writing a parody of HSM's "Status Quo" as set in 1984 for English class. What a funny coincidence! And my brain is still on "lit nerd" mode :D

[skitty_kat.insanejournal.com]

HSM does 1984?
*falls at your feet*
That's just too awesome.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

Oh, in all my excitement I forgot: It's probably best to link to Hark, A Vagrant (http://harkavagrant.com/) (Kate Beaton's site).

[greenmask.insanejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, some of Kate Beaton's comics are so good that I actually feel a GRUDGE building in me. I know it is wrong but I just can't quite escape it!

I just.. AUHH FUNNY AND SUAVE AND APPARENTLY EFFORTLESS. *tears hair*

D:

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO POST THOSE JAMES JOYCE LETTERS ON FANFICRANTS OR WEEPINGCOCK

RIGHT FUCKING NOW

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

It's like Roberta Gregory, but funny.

[mechanicaljewel.insanejournal.com]

Those fascists saying "Don't you write a book about this, George Orwell!" will forever make me laugh like a loon.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

As a Lit nerd, I love the one with Byron and the Shelleys.

"It's not easy."

[besamim.insanejournal.com]

"Oh God this is monstrous!" is my favourite line from it.

[parsimonia.insanejournal.com]

That one is one of my favourites, too.

[spiritoftherain.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Those comics were just awesome. I have to give this woman money somehow - hopefully I can find her book!

That said, those letters from James Joyce are kind of... hilarious actually. Maybe I've been desensitized to terrible smut or I'm just fascinated by the idea of both him and his wife getting off on those kinds of letters. And kind of happy that that sort of, um, intimacy exists between husband and wife.

[arilou_skiff.insanejournal.com]

Damnit. Note to self: Don't read the Garfield cartoon while drinking tea.

God, I love that one.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

All of these made me chortle. The juxtaposition of the two Garfields was hilarious, although I'm not sure I understand the punchline - who's Charles Guiteau? Also, the sight of George Orwell writing the entirety of 1984 while on the run from an angry fascist is just brilliant. Basically, every one of them made me grin at the very least, especially the last one - "Get away from me, James Joyce!" Hee hee.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

who's Charles Guiteau?

His assassin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau)

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Huh. Interesting - I wasn't aware that Garfield had BEEN assassinated, let alone what the assassin's name was. We live and learn.

[skybard.insanejournal.com]

Ahhh, Kate Beaton. <3

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Again and again I have read these, passed them on to others, and JESUS do I like the Joyce one (Panel 3 of that, particularly, is some kind of cartooning triumph) at the end especially. (the Shelleys one is a close second) And now I've found her site and she is officially on my "Read everything she does" list. I don't understand how I didn't notice her before but thanks. I will now be talking her up to any and everyone.

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

(Panel 3 of that, particularly, is some kind of cartooning triumph)

Haha, I agree.

[cmdr_zoom.insanejournal.com]

It's pretty much pure "DO NOT WANT".

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

Heh. (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=183)