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{ 2008 01 29 }

History comix

Posted by Anne in: Art, History, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, tech-sci

From Spencer, by way of Wondermark, artist Kate Beaton has made short comics about 20 historical figures. They’re great and you should go look at them.

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Chris | 29-Jan-08 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

Anne! You’re on fire! I love it!
Anne | 29-Jan-08 at 9:15 pm | Permalink

Aigh! I’m in fire! Help, friends, help!
Anne | 25-Apr-12 at 2:13 am | Permalink

Postscript in April 2012:
Looking back at this, to figure out when we first found out about Kate Beaton – I’m so pleased that I blogged it here!

We went to meet her at SPX in Bethesda MD in September of 2008, and were the only people at the table she was sharing with several friends, although a few people commented at that time that a bunch of people had come by to see her.

Fast forward – in later years at SPX so many people came to line up to see her that the line disrupted the flow of traffic around the convention ballroom. They had to move her booth so that her line could snake out and down an adjacent hallway. She has 40,000+ followers on Twitter, and her first major published collection has been on the NYT bestseller list for many weeks (don’t make me look up how many).

The original thing I linked to was a collection of 20 comics about historical figures, where she solicited her readers to suggest interesting figures to write about. She continued that series for a while after the initial round of interest in it, and if you dig through her archives many of the posts are on historical themes.

Over the years her drawing style has changed somewhat and she’s re-drawn some comics, so the archives on her current site don’t include all the original comics that I would have been linking to four years ago.

That link no longer works, but her work can be found at her main site:
Hark! A Vagrant!
as well as on Tumblr and Twitter and probably more in coming years.

So glad to see someone rising to prominence so clearly on the basis of their obvious talent. Go Kate Beaton.

History comix

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