Tag Archive | "Kate Beaton"

FPI Most Wanted… advance warning

Saturday, June 4, 2011

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October: Kate Beaton’s Hark A Vagrant collection comes out from Drawn & Quarterly. Yes please. And just to remind you of how great it is…. here’s one of her latest:

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Kate Beaton’s Adventures Of Tiny Hermione….

Sunday, April 3, 2011

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Really, what’s not to adore about Kate Beaton’s brilliant set of Hermione strips? And there’s a couple more at the link.

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Strange Tales II – cover and process work is wonderful….

Saturday, April 2, 2011

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I always love these pieces, where we get to see the work that goes on behind the scenes to make the magic that appears on the comic page. Alison Sampson at her brilliant Space In Text site has posted a load of behind the scenes footage from Strange Tales II, featuring art by Kate Beaton, [...]

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Marge Gunderson versus Charlie Sheen

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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With his increasingly erratic (and not drug fuelled at all, no sirree) behaviour, who can sort out Charlie Sheen? Only Marge Gunderson from the Coen Brother’s brilliant Fargo, that’s who, says the wonderful Kate Beaton: (some panels from Hark a Vagrant’s mashup of Charlie Sheen’s trainwreck lifestyle and Fargo’s Marge Gunderson, by and (c) Kate [...]

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The Criterion Collection – dvd covers and more by comic artists

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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Over at Comics Alliance there’s a complete gallery of the cover art to various dvds in the Criterion collection, whether actual covers or posters created for the 2010 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival. See here for Sean Hughes doing Tony Curtis in The Sweet Smell Of Success. And here’s a couple of the stand-outs: Divorce Italian Style [...]

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Hark…. and rejoice. Beaton gets drawn and quartered.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant webcomic has long been something a lot of us have been enjoying, particularly in it’s collected highlights package from 2009 that is Never Learn Anything From History. She’s slowly been making her name, building up fans, from in and outside comics and we all knew it wouldn’t, shouldn’t be long before she [...]

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Family Christmas

Monday, December 20, 2010

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The always delightful Kate Beaton has put all of the strips she did last Christmas while she was home together into one post as a warm up for this year’s big day. Some of it, I’m sure, will be familiar from family Christmas gatherings the world over… (Mom’s old tricks by and (c) Kate Beaton)

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Kate Beaton’s surreal Nancy Drewe.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

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Kate Beaton‘s work is something you should all be following. It’s incredibly fun and inventive, and Beaton’s artwork delights. Here’s some of her latest, having a great time riffing off these Nancy Drewe covers; Beaton’s work is available online, but if you want all the fun in a form you can read good, old fashioned [...]

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Chaplin

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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How delightful is this? One of our faves, Kate Beaton, has created the art for this poster for Janus Films, to publicise a tour of works by Charlie Chaplin, one of the first global superstars of screen (and one of the first screen immortals, still having scenes paying homage to him 80 years later), on [...]

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Animated Kate Beaton

Thursday, July 8, 2010

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Okay, how is it that I didn’t know there were animated takes on Kate Beaton’s brilliant Hark! A Vagrant series? Thankfully Dirk at Journalista did (via Xaviar Xerexes) – they are pretty simple animations (and I like the deliberate scratched old movie styling), but still effective and great fun – enjoy! Kate Beaton’s Hark A [...]

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Doug Wright Awards Charity Artworks….

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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A lovely set of artworks sold to benefit charity over at the Flickrstream of the Doug Wright Awards. You could have had this gorgeous Seth Dr Fate for just $1450.79 Canadian – bargain! And amongst all the other great works there’s a Kate Beaton Wonder Woman, which gives me the flimsiest of excuses to remind [...]

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Never Learn Anything From History

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

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As regular readers will know the FP blog crew are huge fans of Canadian artist Kate Beaton‘s – we were just pointing you yet again to her work at the weekend there while she was off at TCAF. And if you were lucky enough to have been in Toronto for TCAF you would have been [...]

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Jane Austen – Kate Beaton style

Saturday, May 8, 2010

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On Hark! A vagrant the excellent Kate Beaton posts up some more fab comics work ahead of hitting this weekend’s TCAF in Toronto (big shout out to any of our chums who are going to be there! do give us a shout when you post up your pics and reports), this time turning her literary [...]

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Beaton and Gorey, together at last!

Monday, February 1, 2010

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If you haven’t already bookmarked Kate Beaton’s site (why not?) then Tom Gauld draws your attention to Kate’s take on book covers by the great Edward Gorey which he’s enjoying. They’re fab, go brighten your day with them. (What Maisie Knew by Henry James via Edward Gorey and now channeled by Kate Beaton)

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Kate Beaton’s Advent

Sunday, December 13, 2009

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For absolutely no reason, except it’s Christmas and it’s Kate Beaton and I enjoy them both very, very much indeed.

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