Description: "Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juaarez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips."--Provided by publisher.
Brief description:
Kate Beaton was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. After graduating from Mount Allison University with a double degree in History and Anthropology, she moved to Alberta in search of work that would allow her to pay down her student loans. During the years she spent out West, Beaton began creating webcomics under the name Hark! A Vagrant, quickly drawing a substantial following around the world.
The collections of her landmark strip Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops each spent several months on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list, as well as appearing on best of the year lists from Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR Books, and winning the Eisner, Ignatz, Harvey, and Doug Wright Awards. She has also published the picture books King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. Beaton lives in Cape Breton with her family.Review Quotes:
"...Hilarious and hyper-literate." --Entertainment Weekly
"Beaton's work is in a class all its own." --Bust"Step Aside, Pops, reminds us why it's been a blessing that Beaton has enjoyed the free-range evolution of an auteur." --Washington Post "Step Aside, Pops: a new Hark! A Vagrant collection that delights and dazzles." --Boing Boing
"The range and singular wit of her brilliant historical, literary and pop-culture parodies is simply impossible to capture in just a few words."--The Guardian
"From Julius Caesar to The Secret Garden and from the late Romantics to Kokoro, Beaton knocks it out of the park, having a go at anything and everything with her razor-sharp wit."-Publishers Weekly Starred Review