Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection
by Kate Beaton
Buy on Amazon"Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juaarez 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."--Provided by publisher.
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"I depend on Kate Beaton’s comic strips when I need a good, hearty giggle. Her latest collection features hilarious parodies of classic literature, history and pop-culture, with brilliant caricatures of everyone from Lord Byron to Ida B. Wells and Wonder Woman. Highlights include her blistering takedowns of “strong female characters” and “cool girls,” as well as her cheeky depiction of hairy-legged, bra-burning “straw feminists,” who sneak into children’s bedrooms to swap a Justin Bieber poster for one of a busty Mother Earth. And if you thought Wuthering Heights was too ridiculous to parody, Beaton finds a way to make it even more deliciously weird."
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