- Published: 1 November 2011
- ISBN: 9780224094146
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 168
- RRP: $42.99
Hark! A Vagrant

















- Published: 1 November 2011
- ISBN: 9780224094146
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 168
- RRP: $42.99
Kate Beaton has become a Web comic superstar with her hilarious look at historical and pop culture tropes from Julius Caesar to Gatsby. Hark! A Vagrant is a newly expanded collection of her witty, literate comics.
Publishers Weekly
[Beaton's comics] are witty reinventions of literary and historical figures navigating modern times . . . A high-minded version of The Far Side that is at once of-the-moment and timeless.
Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times
Simply put, this is the most well-drawn, funniest comic that I've read in a while.
Adrienne So, Wired
[Beaton's] neat linework and terrific grasp of simple caricature and facial expression sells a lot of the best strips, including Sasaki Kojiro meeting an undignified end, Jane Austen and Nikola Tesla being pestered by their fans, and Lord Byron muttering 'Bitches, man' to a grieving Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Onion
This is that rarest combination of literate irony and devastatingly funny humor.
Publishers Weekly
[F]unny, clever, and sneakily instructive along the way.
Tom Gatti, The Times