![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone and everything is in her sights, from Wuthering Heights to the video for Janet Jackson’s Nasty, to – my favourite – Nancy Drew (“You’re not my co-pilot, you’re a TEENAGE GIRL”).īeaton’s drawings, though fluid, are typically sketchy her strips, having first made you hoot with laughter, at times peter out, as if she were running out of steam, and at others conclude abruptly, her attention having suddenly moved elsewhere (her Wuthering Heights skits conclude with an author’s note, which reads: “If we kept going with these, they’d be half of the book. ![]() Although she now says that her advice to younger artists is “to name their comic something that doesn’t require them to repeat themselves several times when someone asks for it”, she was surely right to go for something cute but essentially nonsensical, for the range and singular wit of her brilliant historical, literary and pop-culture parodies is simply impossible to capture in just a few words. Beaton named her website (and later her first book) Hark! A Vagrant, in an effort to call it something that was at once both “nothing in particular” and “vaguely old-timey and absurd”. Kate Beaton, a young Canadian cartoonist, is the creator of an amazingly popular website called Hark! A Vagrant, and it was there that the contents of Step Aside, Pops originated. But in case its title alone is not enough to persuade you that this is a collection of comics worth reading, let me tell you about it anyway. ![]() W ho could resist a book called Step Aside, Pops? Not me, that’s for sure. ![]()
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