Webcomic Week: Hark! A Vagrant

[alicemacher]

Hark! A Vagrant, by Kate Beaton of Nova Scotia, Canada, ran from 2006 to around 2016. (Beaton officially declared the comic over last month, due to ongoing book writing-and-drawing commitments, but the archives will remain online.) Beginning as a casual LiveJournal hobby, the sleeper-hit webcomic went on to satirize and teach history (in which Beaton has a graduate degree), and also to cover English literature, Canadian society, personal childhood memories, and self-described "nonsense comics."


See Beaton apply her wit to...

American stereotypes of Canadians:







Canadian history / The unique Newfoundland English dialect:







Napoleon Bonaparte:







TV historical dramas which overemphasize sex (i.e. practically all of them nowadays):







Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights:







And Bram Stoker's Dracula:

Comments

[cygnia]

I always get a kick out of the Nemesis comics. :)

[beoweasel]

I didn't know she ended them and now I have a sad. :(

[q99]

Yea, I wish there were more comics like hers, a couple of my favs have ended or been on indefinite hiatus (like Manly Guys Doing Manly Things).

[kamino_neko]

That newfie one is truly gold.

[thezmage]

Her Nancy Drew comics are some of my favorite works

[deh_tommy]

Aw, you left out the one with Edgar Allen Poe.

[zylly]

My personal favorite is the one that makes fun of the pop culture osmosis/Nigel Bruce version of Watson.

“New Watson likes jam.”