Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection - Hardcover

Beaton, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1770462082 ISBN 13: 9781770462083

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2015

Synopsis

Six months on the New York Times bestseller list! Featured on 25 best of the year lists!

“Somewhere in my heart is a folder titled Things I Did Not Know I Wanted and it is full of Kate Beaton comics... Sharp, charming, and weird, Step Aside, Pops is a fine sampling of Beaton's work, and I can't recommend it enough.” ―NPR

“Nobody’s ever gotten so much comedy out of omitting punctuation.” ―New York Times

Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez 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.
Beaton began her infectiously popular web comic, Hark! A Vagrant, in 2007 and it quickly attracted the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans. It was an unequivocal hit with critics and fans alike, topping best-of-the-year lists from E!, Amazon, Time, and more. Now Beaton returns with a refined pen, ready to make jokes at the expense of hunks, army generals, scientists, and Canadians in equal measure. With a few carefully placed lines, she captures the over-the-top evil of the straw feminists in the closet, the disgruntled dismay of Heathcliff, and Wonder Woman's all-conquering ennui. Step Aside, Pops is sure to be the comedic hit of the year: sharp, insightful, and very funny.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Beaton is a Canadian cartoonist who appeared on the comics scene in 2007 with her online work Hark! A Vagrant. Since then, she has become a fan favorite and has garnered a significant following, with illustrations appearing in places like The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and Marvel's Strange Tales anthology. Her first book with D+Q, Hark! A Vagrant, spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list, and topped best-of-the-year lists from Time, E!, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly. Beaton lives in Toronto, Canada.

Review

“...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

About this edition

• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1770462082
• ISBN 13: 9781770462083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160