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?
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.
Je suis méchant.
Like literature? Enjoy history? Love reading (web)comics?
30/09/2011 04:12:31 AM
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Yes, but I'm too cheap to buy books of webcomics.
30/09/2011 06:22:38 AM
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Fair enough
30/09/2011 06:25:26 AM
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One of her comics is on the door of the Chair of my uni's classics department.
30/09/2011 07:44:39 AM
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