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sandoz_iscariot (sandoz_iscariot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-12 18:45:00

This is a Kate Beaton post.
What ho, Scans_Daily! Have some Kate Beaton comics.

For the history geeks:

And the Lit nerds:

James Joyce's dirty letters. NSFW or brain.

ETA: Her website! http://harkavagrant.com/

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	parsimonia 2009-05-12 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	Oh HELL YES! I bought her book "Never Learn Anything From History" this weekend! Awesomeness. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-05-12 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Jealous! I'm glad they've sold out. I really don't have the cash to spare, but DO WANT. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	danielolsen 2009-05-12 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	Kate Beaton... book? I need this like I need air. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-05-12 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Voila! I thought it was sold out, but maybe it's not. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

besamim
2009-05-12 09:28 pm UTC (link)

It still says "Temporarily sold out" in red on that store page.

Damn. I went to TCAF on Sunday hoping to buy it from her and maybe tastefully gush a bit, but wouldn't you know it, she'd sold out of all 200 copies Saturday. When it was pouring and hailing like crap and I didn't feel like going out. Why do you mock me, O Lord? Ah well, I'll keep an eye out for the second print run.

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parsimonia
2009-05-12 09:41 pm UTC (link)

I had noticed that when the books first went on sale online they sold out really quickly, so on Saturday the first thing I did was hunt down her table and buy the book. I wanted to gush about how much I love the comics, but I was too shy. *headdesk* But she signed my book and drew a funny little cow inside the cover, which was very nice.

When it was pouring and hailing like crap and I didn't feel like going out.

That hail was INSANE! Weird thing is I remember the same thing happened around this time last year.

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	danielolsen 2009-05-13 02:28 am UTC (link)
	Curse my European-ness. ...I hope it has an ISBN. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mechanicaljewel 2009-05-13 05:17 am UTC (link)
	Unfortunately it does not. But I'm fairly sure TopatoCo ships to Europe, once it reprints. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	parsimonia 2009-05-13 08:58 am UTC (link)
	Looking at my copy, it does not appear to have one. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darklorelei 2009-05-12 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	Kate Beaton is my favorite ever. (Reply to this)

	merseybeatler 2009-05-12 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	...I've never seen any of this before AND IT'S AWESOME. (Reply to this)

	shadeedge 2009-05-12 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	I'd never seen the Orwell one before! Kate Beaton's great. (Reply to this)

mari_redstar
2009-05-12 06:49 pm UTC (link)

I find Wondy-with-cigarette disturbingly attractive. Also it's making me want to read ten jillion issues where she goes to bars with Lady Blackhawk and they beat people at pool and drink gallons of beer (Zinda) and wine (Diana) and get into barfights, and Zinda says "Man, it's just like old times when I used to do this with your mother! No, wait, did that still have happened?" and they debate the timeline, always hilarious when you're drunk. (I dunno where this bar is, that the inhabitants are people Diana feels it would be fair to get into fights with. Possibly it's one of those multidimensional ones you find occasionally.)

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	bean_montag 2009-05-12 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, what? Did you just make this up? Is it real? You're saying it like it might be real. Goddamnit. You're making this up. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mari_redstar
2009-05-12 10:32 pm UTC (link)

Um. Sorry.

Think of it this way: if it only exists in the realm of possibility, it could possibly have fantastic art. You know if it existed in reality odds are it would wind up being drawn by someone who believed breasts to be hemispherical and unaffected by gravity.

Maybe they could swing by and pick up Cowgirl? She and Zinda can have a flygirl bonding session, and Oracle- who is barhopping with them by remote via Zinda's earpiece- can tell her all the most embarrassing stories she knows (which is to say all of them) about Hal, it'll be hilarious.

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	sessile29 2009-05-12 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	OMFG THOSE LETTERS REALLY ARE THAT BAD DX The rest of this is awesome, though. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	erlgirl_9 2009-05-12 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	Inorite. I pretty much made the same face when I (out of morbid curiosity) went to look them up. I CAN NEVER TAKE J JOYCE SERIOUSLY EVER AGAIN D: (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	merseybeatler 2009-05-12 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	DITTO. D: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lissa_quon 2009-05-12 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	I'm going to need therapy after those letters. Why did I click that link!? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-12 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	The weird thing is that after all the time I've spent on here... Those letters were nothing. I was almost disappointed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	skitty_kat 2009-05-13 01:52 am UTC (link)
	Me too. I've spent too long on the internet and read too much filthy fanfic that it was just, well, interesting, I suppose. Has the novelty of being between real people. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hyperactivator 2009-05-12 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	OMG that is my cat. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-05-12 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	That is everyone's cat. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluejaybirdie 2009-05-12 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	Heh. I just finished writing a parody of HSM's "Status Quo" as set in 1984 for English class. What a funny coincidence! And my brain is still on "lit nerd" mode :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	skitty_kat 2009-05-13 01:42 am UTC (link)
	HSM does 1984? falls at your feet That's just too awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	parsimonia 2009-05-12 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, in all my excitement I forgot: It's probably best to link to Hark, A Vagrant (Kate Beaton's site). (Reply to this)

	greenmask 2009-05-12 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my goodness, some of Kate Beaton's comics are so good that I actually feel a GRUDGE building in me. I know it is wrong but I just can't quite escape it! I just.. AUHH FUNNY AND SUAVE AND APPARENTLY EFFORTLESS. tears hair D: (Reply to this)

	box_in_the_box 2009-05-12 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	SOMEBODY NEEDS TO POST THOSE JAMES JOYCE LETTERS ON FANFICRANTS OR WEEPINGCOCK RIGHT FUCKING NOW (Reply to this)

	jlroberson 2009-05-12 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	It's like Roberta Gregory, but funny. (Reply to this)

	mechanicaljewel 2009-05-12 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	Those fascists saying "Don't you write a book about this, George Orwell!" will forever make me laugh like a loon. (Reply to this)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-05-12 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	As a Lit nerd, I love the one with Byron and the Shelleys. "It's not easy." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	besamim 2009-05-12 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh God this is monstrous!" is my favourite line from it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	parsimonia 2009-05-12 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	That one is one of my favourites, too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

spiritoftherain.livejournal.com
2009-05-12 10:39 pm UTC (link)

Those comics were just awesome. I have to give this woman money somehow - hopefully I can find her book!

That said, those letters from James Joyce are kind of... hilarious actually. Maybe I've been desensitized to terrible smut or I'm just fascinated by the idea of both him and his wife getting off on those kinds of letters. And kind of happy that that sort of, um, intimacy exists between husband and wife.

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	arilou_skiff 2009-05-13 01:47 am UTC (link)
	Damnit. Note to self: Don't read the Garfield cartoon while drinking tea. God, I love that one. (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-05-13 02:35 am UTC (link)

All of these made me chortle. The juxtaposition of the two Garfields was hilarious, although I'm not sure I understand the punchline - who's Charles Guiteau? Also, the sight of George Orwell writing the entirety of 1984 while on the run from an angry fascist is just brilliant. Basically, every one of them made me grin at the very least, especially the last one - "Get away from me, James Joyce!" Hee hee.

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	cmdr_zoom 2009-05-13 03:14 am UTC (link)
	who's Charles Guiteau? His assassin. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-13 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	Huh. Interesting - I wasn't aware that Garfield had BEEN assassinated, let alone what the assassin's name was. We live and learn. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	skybard 2009-05-13 03:19 am UTC (link)
	Ahhh, Kate Beaton. <3 (Reply to this)

jlroberson
2009-05-13 04:05 am UTC (link)

Again and again I have read these, passed them on to others, and JESUS do I like the Joyce one (Panel 3 of that, particularly, is some kind of cartooning triumph) at the end especially. (the Shelleys one is a close second) And now I've found her site and she is officially on my "Read everything she does" list. I don't understand how I didn't notice her before but thanks. I will now be talking her up to any and everyone.

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	sandoz_iscariot 2009-05-13 09:14 am UTC (link)
	(Panel 3 of that, particularly, is some kind of cartooning triumph) Haha, I agree. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-05-13 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	It's pretty much pure "DO NOT WANT". (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-05-13 11:55 am UTC (link)
	Heh. (Reply to this)