![]() ![]() Through the years, Holmes has had many incarnations, but Watson perhaps even more. The Doug Wright Awards annually celebrates excellence in comics across Canada, awarding four prizes. As the 500,000 unique monthly visitors to already know, no one turns the ironic absurdities of history and literature into comedic fodder as hilariously as Beaton. Hark A Vagrant: The Case of the Two Watsons By Crime HQ FebruWe’re big fans of Holmes and Watson, and we know you are, too. Ducks by Cape Breton comic artist Kate Beaton has won the 2023 Doug Wright Award for best book. Hark! A Vagrant features sexy Batman, the true stories behind classic Nancy Drew covers, and Queen Elizabeth doing the albatross. Anthony is, of course, a "Samantha," and that the polite banality of Canadian culture never gets old. She deftly points out what really happened when Brahms fell asleep listening to Liszt, that the world's first hipsters were obviously the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses from eighteenth-century France, that Susan B. No era or tome emerges unscathed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved fiction. Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. One of my favorite ongoing gags in Hark A Vagrant is how you poke fun at the rather baroque idea of adults imbuing teens with crime-solving agency à la Nancy Drew. FEATURED ON MORE THAN TWENTY BEST-OF LISTS, INCLUDING TIME, AMAZON, E! AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY! ![]()
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