Hark! A Vagrant:

Book Riot selects 6 small press books to read in November and Jane Mai’s See You Next Tuesday makes the cut!

“I think fans of Kate Beaton and Noelle Stevenson (and probably Meredith Gran–my favorite webcomic is by her) would dig Jane Mai.” — Susie Rodarme, Book Riot

Check out the whole list right here!

See You Next Tuesday has also received a wonderfully thoughtful review, for a thoughtful comic that is also hilarious and filled with poop jokes, from ComicsAlliance.
“Mai’s diary comics are a prism, fracturing and projecting myriad Jane Mais onto comics pages. All that we can tell about the real Jane Mai for sure, based on the resultant work, is that she’s really funny, and able to alchemically take some pretty distressing or depressing topics and turn them into funny comics.” — J. Caleb Mozzocco, ComicsAlliance

Check out the rest of the review here!

Hello! Tonight I will see you at the Bristol Ideas Festival, my last stop in the UK leg of book events. I had a week between Leeds Thought Bubble and Bristol Ideas so I went for the first time to the Braes of Lochaber in Scotland, where both my mother and father and indeed most of my home village of Mabou trace their roots to. It was beautiful, and the people there made me welcome, invited me into their homes when I had come alone knowing no one, and showed me all the places I was connected to. I will never forget it, and I am proud to be connected at all to such fine people.

On top of all this, there were ponies.

See you back in Canada next,

Kate

A good week!

Now two months on the New York Times bestseller list! Holding in at #5.

And both books made it on Amazon’s best books of 2015, in their respective categories:

Comics

Picture Books

You basically entomb yourself behind a wall making these things, and worry your mother because you never see the sun (my mom lights candles at the church even), so it is nice when they come out the other side and survive.

I’ve been reading this book of manners and enjoying it very much! It is actually pretty progressive for its time.

It’s rare you see the scripts flipped like this isn’t it? So I ran with that. But poor old fellow, everyone deserves respect and should be allowed to wear what they like without abuse. Isn’t that right?

Here’s a little postscript for you, for our friend. An alternate ending, if you will.

The store is updated for the holidays! Including PONIES PONIES PONIES! I only really update the store once a year so there will be posts on that. A gal’s gotta make a livin’, eh!

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Part 2, Chapter 6: Jardin des Plantes et Animaux →

Loving D’arcy’s project so far

I like this kickstarter! I love ghost stories, and the olde timey stylings they describe:

A magazine of ghosts, the macabre and the oh-so peculiar. We are looking for literary fiction, illustration and animation that chills, shivers, surprises and horrifies.
We like: M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Susan Hill, Walter de la Mare, H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Jeannette Winterson, Sarah Waters, E. Nesbit and Helen Dunmore.
We don’t like: Twilight or any associated texts e.g: Dark Romance, and terrible clichés of any of the above! No gore please, we favour the psychological rattling of our brains…

discardingimages:

lions
Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072
BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 233v

lions drawn by people who have never seen lions are my fave thing

girl yes

How Kate Beaton Does Money →

hello-the-future:

I loved reading the Comics Journal interview with Kate Beaton because her description of life in rural Nova Scotia sounded very similar to life in rural Missouri.

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A new history youtube for you to follow! I am just getting into it now. Thanks Home Team History!

Hollyhocks and Cats

scarletbibliofeline:

Hollyhocks and Cats, ink and color painting, 12th century, Mao Yi, National Palace Museum, Taipei.
So fluffy!

‘I’m a Careful Person’: An Interview with Kate Beaton | The Comics Journal →

I did the most giant interview I think I’ve ever done, with The Comics Journal. Mostly the question, “how on earth did this happen to you?”

Check for my friends @ryannorth, @topatoco, @philmcandrew, @ryanpequin, @birdlord, @jessfink

Best Books 2015 — Goodreads Choice Awards →

I have two books in two categories for nomination here, if you care to!

topatoco:

Happy Fat Pony day, everybody!
Everyone’s fav fart machine Fat Pony by @beatonna is now a cute stuffed animal! Perfect for cuddling, smoochin’, or going on adventures on, this Fat Pony is sure to warm your heart. ~~(With farts)~~
AS WELL AS the gorgeous Fat Pony, there are also SIX new Kate Beaton/Hark! A Vagrant tee shirts AND a Fat Pony 2016 Calendar to get your well-deserved hands on!
Order now as presents for Thankgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, Black Friday, Birthdays, and other things I can’t think of! TopatoCo.com/Hark!

Hoorayy!! Shirts and calendars and ponies! ROLL OUT

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Kate Beaton's comcis are refusing to let women be forgotten →

I def. did not have a line like Darwyn Cooke but the festival and the interview were really nice! And I got to climb hills and see castles in Kendal.