I’ve been enjoying Least I Could Do.
Rimbo
1582
I’m glad to see someone in popular culture has the same frustrations and is trying to help others be more self-aware.
Personally, I use sports fandom as my way out. By making “Longhorns good; Sooners bad” my own personal core belief, it leaves everything else open to discussion. :)
Thanks for “Least I Could Do,” that looks potentially funny. :)
CraigM
1583
It isn’t easy, but one of my core beliefs is that I thoughtfully consider any position I take a stance on. That it is important to question and examine broadly accepted cultural myths. Being open to reexamining previous positions is hard, but worthwhile and needed.
Dungeons and Doggos
Currently down but this Tumblr archive seems to work.
There’s also an associated Kickstarter (filled, 300k) to buy minis.
Djscman
1585
Kate Beaton is no longer crying out, “Hark! A Vagrant.”
Harkavagrant.com
Thank you for reading. I can’t say it enough.
Hark! A Vagrant, such as it is, is an archive website now. I didn’t think it would be when I stepped away to work on other projects, but (not to kill the light mood around here) 2016-2018 were very difficult years in a personal sense, and emerging on the other side, I feel like this is a project that has run its course. I am so very grateful for all that this comic and my readers have given me, they have given me a career, joy, and more than I ever dreamed.
I’m still working on a graphic novel, and picture books for children. I miss making humour comics, but coming back to them, I will have to figure out what that will look like. These comics go back to my early 20s, and I am a different person. In a sense that’s exciting. I’ll figure it out, and I hope I’ll see you there. Hark! is only one project, I personally am not going anywhere. And maybe next time I’ll choose a title that I won’t have to repeat ten times to people, a bright prospect.
I’d like to dedicate this archive to my sister Becky Beaton, who we lost in 2018, and who always believed in me. I love you, always.
-Kate
Besides her hilarious sketches of People of Long Ago, I loved her other turns of whimsy, especially her jaded Wonder Woman and her dipshit Teen Boy Detectives. This is a little like when Calvin and Hobbes ended.
And it sure would be great to hear from Allie Brosh again…
Zylon
1589
So anyway, yeah, sucks about Hark, a Vagrant officially ending. But then Perry Bible Fellowship officially called it quits a few years ago too, and the author eventually started posting new strips again whenever he felt like it. I’m holding onto the slim hope that’s the path Vagrant will follow.
Djscman
1590
She has been posting plenty of other comics, especially autobiographical ones, on her Twitter and Tumblr sites for the last few years. She has also been coming out with adorable children’s books. It would be great if she revisits Hark! But she has no lack of work to do.
Rimbo
1594
Bloom County is legend.
One of these days, I should post an update to what I’ve been reading, but the short version is:
http://www.thedrawplay.com The Draw Play, legendary comics about the NFL and Sexy Rexy
http://www.joshuawright.net Slack Wyrm, a lazy good-for-nothing red dragon and his equally useless minions
and for some reason I still read Questionable Content even though it’s gotten really fuckin’ weird
There is now an official Far Side site.
I thought for sure that dude was dead.
Rimbo
1597
John Allison remains, in my mind, the best writer of dialogue to ever live.
Oh hey! Allie Brosh is still alive, and is finally coming out with the sequel to the first Hyperbole and a Half book!
So good to see. September 22 street date. I think I’ll go buy this in an actual bookstore.
Wow, bookstores. I remember those. I went to one in my childhood. Couldn’t believe it, actual books as far as the eye could see.
I worked in one, soon after my childhood! Huge pallets of books—literally tons of them—would arrive every day. Five different editions of Huckleberry Finn on the shelf at any given time. Places to sit! Every other customer a potential sexy librarian!
RichVR
1602
I always loved the way they smelled. When you first went in.
