{"id":26333,"date":"2015-11-20T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=26333"},"modified":"2015-11-17T19:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T01:41:13","slug":"step-aside-pops-a-hark-a-vagrant-collection-by-kate-beaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/step-aside-pops-a-hark-a-vagrant-collection-by-kate-beaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection<\/I> by Kate Beaton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"step<\/a>Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is Kate Beaton’s third published book of comics, but fourth overall. (Other ones by Beaton that the library owns are Hark! A Vagrant<\/a> <\/em>and\u00a0The Princess and the Pony<\/a>.<\/em>) This new graphic novel is a\u00a0collection of strips from\u00a0her webcomic<\/a>, Hark! A Vagrant. Webcomics are generally\u00a0self-published online and\u00a0are sometimes even published into books or as single strips\u00a0in magazines or newspapers depending upon their popularity.<\/p>\n

In Step Aside, Pops<\/a><\/em>, Beaton takes a turn at digging into the lives of various literary, historical, and contemporary figures and characters. Think of this graphic novel as a collection of Beaton’s musings and ideas about different people throughout history. Her obvious love of all things literature, historical, and pop culture related flow through this graphic novel as she dissects the lives of Wonder Woman, what it was really like to be a peasant in a time of no medicine or deodorant, and how different famous Alexanders handled rough situations throughout time. Crack open this graphic novel and you’ll see how Beaton reimagines the lives of Achilles, the founding fathers when they find themselves in a shopping mall, and even how Cinderella would have played out if she had been a bodybuilder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection is Kate Beaton’s third published book of comics, but fourth overall. (Other ones by Beaton that the library owns are Hark! A Vagrant and\u00a0The Princess and the Pony.) This new graphic novel is a\u00a0collection of strips from\u00a0her webcomic, Hark! A Vagrant. Webcomics[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8,6],"tags":[3205,787,3203,3204,810,2029],"class_list":["post-26333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","category-websites","tag-comic","tag-graphic-novel","tag-hark-a-vagrant","tag-kate-beaton","tag-web","tag-webcomic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6QJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26333"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333\/revisions\/26499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}