Hark! A Vagrant

Did you think I forgot about the list of 20 comics to make? This one is on it. Except this comic is so silly, it is so silly oh god.

Here, learn something, I am of no use to anybody.

Did you guess right? Because I have a store of my very own and you can see for yourself.


Popular demand won the day! Now let's take a look:



( oh oh here are the items )


This is what Tom Cruise thinks:

If you’ve been reading my livejournal (and if you are reading this entry I assume you have), maybe you remember the several times I have mused ‘oh maybe I will sell something, hm hmm I don’t know.’  As a matter of fact I get asked quite a lot to put something up for sale, and well, I apologize for not doing it for so long.

however!

This afternoon, that changes! We are doing a little test with the good folks at www.topatoco.com , and this means some shirts and prints for real! It is pretty exciting. What will be offered are the things I have had the most requests for on both a shirt and a print (which I colored all by myself, can you believe!). That leaves the items themselves as a mystery, though I think it will be easy to guess, but you will have to check it out! 

You can keep an eye out, as it is going up soon soon soon but I will edit this entry when is does so this is your Heads Up Y'all.




I am all over your livejournal today, ain't I a stinker 

Everyone loves a hero. And by that I mean I love a hero. Aside from being a strategical genius and meticulous planner, John Monash took a broken army and gave them spirit again, protected them as much as he could and showed them victory. He was, I am trying to say, a hell of a guy.


read more? Of course!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21232545-5012507,00.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/monash-master-of-illusion/2006/07/27/1153816322191.html


Canadians take a special pride in Amiens as well, hoorah for the colonials?

I have been reading about Australian history lately, because of two things:

1- I just made a comic about John Franklin who was the one time Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania. Tangentially, more interesting is his wife, the lovely Lady Jane Franklin, who was a pretty awesome lady indeed and took the opportunity while in Australia to shove tea parties aside in favour of mountain-climbing and bush-roughing and maybe some adventure. Shocking! 


2- Requests from Australians for some Representation, Please. Of course of course! We are all part of the Commonwealth are we not!  My uncles get weepy when someone sings 'And the Band Played Walzting Matilda.'  You guys still have the Union Jack on your flag though.   Has Australia ever petitioned for a new flag?  Canada tried a few times before we got out big old leaf but there were some ugly ass designs, man.


This is interesting stuff! As for formal education on the topic, I have only read this book, the focus of which is not the colony per se but it has a lot to do with it. Good times, good times. Anyone with a History degree might remember well E.P. Thompson's other huge book that everyone is made to read in British history, at the time I thought it was Way Ultra Boring myself but you couldn't convince a certain Professor Torrance that if the book put you in a dang old coma. 848 pages! Doctor Torrance you are killing me. 

  

Today I took a theme and ran with it over lunch break.  Perhaps too far, perhaps not.  Mysteries mysteries








(Many thanks to John Campbell and Ryan Estrada's cat. )

The search for the Northwest Passage is one of the great adventures of this county, though what drove men out there is something Stan Rogers understood and I do not. A lot of dudes had a hard on for the Passage, but the most notorious of these is probably John Franklin.

Hello again, it is the internet! So cold and machine-ey after being in the real world where real people live. I was at the Stumptown comics festival! I have to say there were a lot of wonderful people there and it was a little overwhelming but it was very nice! Unfortunately for everyone in attendance, if you were there, well that sound which was like a rusty bicycle running over a pack of geese, that was me. I came down with a plague! And everyone suffered.

I figure this will stay up for maybe a day because I don't want to get sued by belgium

Drawing egg shaped Napoleons reminded me of drawing potato shaped younger self.

It's outside so we are wearing jackets, but I love drawing her sweaters because kids wear the most ridiculous things ever. I think my favorite outfit that I drew on her was just a shirt that said 'boat' under a picture of a boat.

Are emails like this coming from 14 year old boys? Maybe

Why is Napoleon eating cookies so funny?

Come see my comics for your history lessons

I have been colored again! This time again by photoshop talent Kris Sayer, or dragonideas. . Check it out!

Kris tells me that each of the first set of 20 comics is going to be colored, so if I get them I will put them all up here. It makes everything so much nicer! And for those of you wondering: No I do not know how to use photoshop. 



( techicolor comics! ) 

January 4, 1889

To friend Overbeck and wife.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts—for example, to you. I am just having all anti-Semites shot.

Dionysus

ok so

I may not be so bereft of confidence as it looks sometimes, I just tend to squirm when given attention. As you can see though, my pen is dying I need a new one! Comics is hard.

I miss the guy you know?

You remember a while back when I said I made a previous Orwell comic called 'Eric Arthur Blair Shoots an Elephant' but never put it up? That's because I couldn't time it right, or the drawings were off, in any case, I said 'you're a hack Beaton' and abandoned it and made a new one.

Then I got a lot of questions about it so I figured I'd just describe it anyway. But then I figured hey, y'all like to draw right? Drawin's a good time! So I'll tell you what was said in it, and maybe people can have some fun making pictures if they were so inclined. Hell maybe - even better - you got a better Orwell comic up your sleeve, I mean the man is comic goldmine.

I may or may not still be a hack.

Sometimes, instead of just 'Cartoonist Kate Beaton,' I see myself referred to as the more specific'Cananadian cartoonist Kate Beaton.'

WHYEVER COULD THAT BE