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Like literature? Enjoy history? Love reading (web)comics? Larry Send a noteboard - 30/09/2011 04:12:31 AM
For those that answered "yes" to at least one of these, Kate Beaton's just-released Hark! A Vagrant, culled from the past four years of her webcomic of that name, might be a serendipitous find. I'm only about a fifth into it, but reading allusions to Sherlock Holmes, Kafka, Austen, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Ben Franklin among others has been one of the more enjoyable comic-reading experiences I've had since the heydays of Bloom Country and The Far Side (two-thirds of the holy trinity of comic strips for me as an adolescent; when all three strips ended, I abandoned reading newspaper comics).

Below is a link I made of two photos from the book that I took. The first alludes to the literary/film versions of Holmes' Watson, while the other deals with reinterpretations of books based solely on book covers. Kafka's Amerika was redone in a way that skewers certain xenophobic arguments.

Does this appeal to you at all?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Like literature? Enjoy history? Love reading (web)comics? - 30/09/2011 04:12:31 AM 767 Views
Yes, but I'm too cheap to buy books of webcomics. - 30/09/2011 06:22:38 AM 517 Views
Fair enough - 30/09/2011 06:25:26 AM 451 Views
Yes, I've run into this before - 30/09/2011 09:32:18 AM 489 Views
The book was cheap on Amazon - 30/09/2011 10:43:11 PM 505 Views
That's one of my favourite "spare twenty minute" comics. *NM* - 30/09/2011 04:39:16 PM 185 Views
Might become mine shortly - 30/09/2011 10:43:52 PM 468 Views
I love those Hardy Boys-type dudes she draws. - 30/09/2011 11:50:23 PM 563 Views

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