The original Pygmalion "perfects" his statue of Galatea with this.Anne of Cleves is shown doing this in her portrait in "Anne of Cleves Gables".The strong female characters take this as a challenge.but then the original concept art is posted further down on the page anyway. *Bleep*-dammit!: A weird case of this happening with nudity one of the Strong Female Characters was originally designed with an eyepatch covering only one of her breasts, but the final design has a pair of them.The guy who gave it to him kills him anyway. Also spoofed here (third comic), where an actual pirate comments on the Black Spot not being a real practice.Spoofed in here (second comic), where a group of gangsters give a man the Black Spot, to which he responds "You've mixed up genres.".Defied in an early strip about the Battle of Gettysburg, where her attempts to brainstorm cartoon ideas with a ghost has him snap that "everyone I knew died and it was grisly as fuck.".Historical events and personages are depicted in a comedic manner, even the darker, more terrifying ones.Even the Devil thinks Brown is a hypocrite. Black-and-White Morality: Pointed out in the parody of the colonial-era novel Young Goodman Brown.Karl: Everything you know you learned from Haydn.īeethoven: Why do you always - HAYDN TAUGHT ME NOTHING. Additionally, Kate Beaton has a personal tumblr which can be seen here, and a Live Journal here.īeethoven: Ah, you say these things to hurt me, but I know it isn't true.
#Hark a vagrant macbeth archive
On the 10th of October 2018 Beaton updated the website to inform readers that due to personal issues and continuing work on other projects she had decided that Hark! had run its course and the website would now be an archive of the comic with no new comics planned.
The webcomic went on hiatus in mid December 2016 as Beaton switched focus to a graphic novel she was working on, though she continued to post sporadic updates on her Tumblr.
Also, rather than use Alt Text, Beaton usually accompanies each comic with a short paragraph. Like most webcomics, there is little continuity between entries, and it rose to fame through Memetic Mutation taking hold on a few comics. Recurring themes include Beaton visiting her younger self, Canada, a pony called " Fat Pony", and a story about a sailor who meets a mermaid. For example, Beowulf: You’re Doing It Wrong (complete with notes on the Old English).Hark! A Vagrant is a largely history-based Webcomic by Kate Beaton, best known for its historical comics, which are one-shots of varying length focusing on historical events or figures getting into pretty inaccurate situations. Among the best posts, in my opinion, are the memes. This blog covers a variety of topics, from commentaries on misuses of the word ‘medieval’ to reviews of medievalist movies, scholarly resources and the author’s continual search for a patron. Did you know that Elizabeth I is secretly part-albatross? Or just how hard it is to make a medieval film? Or wondered about courtly love? See also this glorious piece on Macbeth.Ī new addition to my list of favourite medievalist blogs. Have a look at the Tumblr page and the Facebook page.Ī webcomic by Kate Beaton, often with historical or literary content. Marvel at this snail stag, gawk at the many-armed Fortuna in a stripey candy-pink kirtle of doom, be amazed by this cat playing a hurdy gurdy! Look! … a hedgehog in a tree! Regularly updated and perfect for ‘on-topic’ procrastination. Written in Middle English, this blog is a must for medievalists. It is laugh-out-loud funny as well as educational, with links to useful resources about Chaucer and Middle English. Take, for example, this post, which begins with Chaucer and Richard III going spelunking and somehow morphs into a poem about Star Wars… Or this post in which Chaucer is distracted from writing the Canterbury Tales by his son’s ‘Exboxe CCCLX’.įor extra amusement, Chaucer also has a twitter account.Ī collection of amusing and often perplexing pictures and marginal illustrations. Here’s a post about the monkey apocalypse and a marvellously snarky review of the 2007 Beowulf film to get you started. The Ceræ committee in Western Australia is busily preparing for the CMEMS/PMRG Conference to be held later this week so today’s (decidedly less formal) post is especially for those who need something amusing to distract themselves from unfinished papers, towers of marking or impending due dates…Īmusing marginal illustrations, commentary on (poor) representations of the Middle Ages, almost Pratchettian footnotes (is that even a word? Let’s make that a word…), what more is there to want? This is your go-to blog for medieval humour and bizarre marginal art – you might even learn something while you’re at it!
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