Hark! A Vagrant - Hipsters

A Sorrows of Young Werther comic? I dig it, man, I dig it.

Ginsburg. What a babe.

"Suicidal Poet Dandies on Your Doorstop" would be a great name for a rock band.

LOLOLOL Ginsberg? Man, I live in an area infested with hipsters, so, LOL FOREVER.

AH! KATE BEATON! YOUR CARTOONS CHANGED MY LIFE.








But, seriously. They're pretty awesome and have been heavily incorporated into my LJ user pictures.

You draw the best facial expressions, just so you know!

Ahhh you totally beat me to the Goethe comic! I did do an HxC Dan parody of The Sorrows of Young Wether that I'll have to put up sometime soon.

Funny story about Ginsberg, he was doing a reading here at Muhlenberg in the 70's in our chapel and dude just lit up a fat doobie! Apparently he got kicked off the campus, but we have a radio ID from him at the station to prove he was here haha!

LOLOLOL

THANK you.

haha, I thought exactly the same thing while I was reading The Sorrows of Young Werther for school! Forget Lotte and die, already.
More like The Sorrows of Everyone Forced To Read Werther, Ever.

Yesssss thank you for Goethe. We just finished reading Elective Affinities in my German lit class and I think if that had been as popular as Werther (as opposed to everyone being "YOU RUINED THE SANCTITY OF CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE GOETHE WHAT THE HELL") young ladies would have been starving themselves to death all over the place to be like Ottilie while the young men were killing themselves like Werther. And then there would have been no young people at all left in Germany and Goethe would have finally had some peace to finish the wacky-ass second half of Faust.

Choked on my own laughter on the Goethe one! A teacher of mine once made a similar connection between how everyone thinks the new followers of ____ are ruining things, when writers and musicians of the past dealt with the same awkwardness. I wish she was still around so I could send this to her. :)

Holy crap, I love your Goethe strip SO HARD.

This is so true.

Damn kids.

And here I am stuck with this username. :(

Of course the big thing nowadays is people just out-and-out refusing to like stuff (art films, indie bands, certain neighborhoods) if they think hipsters might be into it, because of pretense? I don't know. It's hating stuff on the merits of the fans instead of the actual thing that the people are fans of. I think maybe that explains why so many people are retreating to the stuff they liked when they were ten years old and had no idea what being hip was even supposed to involve.

Now that I'm done with amateur sociology time: I can't decide what's funnier, eyes-wise -- that glassy expression the beatnik lady's affecting in panel 2 of the top comic, or the fop's dilated-with-awe vapidity in panel 3 of the bottom. I just keep going back and forth between the two, chortling like an idiot.

The Goethe one looks really really gorgeous. Are you using different materials? The line looks heavier than usual. (Also, as ever, the way you draw hair makes my soul smile.)

These are why I want to do artwork that becomes famous.

Because if cheesy hipsters happened to me I would laugh and laugh and laugh and it would just make my LIFE.

Vapid-eyed Goethe Hipster has made my day.

You make my dreams come true, Kate Beaton.

Oh my god the beats! I love it!

Hahaha! You can't be more right.

[chortle]

Is there something different in the drawing style?

"it's not the band i hate, it's their fans"

Ginsberg, you are not helping...

Very nice, as always. I love the detail on Goethe's weariness versus the cartoonish devotion of the Goethe fanboy. He has feelings, don't you know? FEELINGS DEEP INSIDE HIS SOUL. Or maybe that's nougat.

ha ha ha too true

Tee Hee.

Ugh, Sorrows of Young Werther, I wish he had killed himself in the beginning so I didn't have to waste 2 hours of my life reading his high school style angst.