Chapter 7: Kate Beaton

Photo from Drawn and Quaterly

I am a huge fan of Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton and her excellent Hark, a vagrant webcomic especially when she deals with Victorian subjects. Here are just a few of her strips to do with people from that period that anyone with even a passing interest in Victoriana should get a good giggle out of. (Lady of Shallot is one of my favourite Tennyson parodies ever) ;)

babbage 

Neitzsche in, 'Thereafter Pretentious Men May Quote Me Ad Nauseum' 

Robert Peel, you can do it

chimney sweep

You are trying to seduce me Albert

victorians want tshirts

Mary Seacole

Victoria Day

Poe and Verne

Young Ada Lovelace

Lady of Shallot

There are others so it is well worth going through her archives and even reading some of her non-Victorian work. 

There are also books:

Hark! A Vagrant Amazon US | Amazon UK

Step Aside Pops Amazon US | Amazon UK