Hey, remember when I pointed you towards the super-awesome webcomic, World of Hurt? Yeah? You're reading that, right? Great.
Now, you know what's just as awesome as a comic based on blaxploitation films? One based on history. Because history is great and wonderful and full of the sharp and pointies that make you and me appreciate this modern life. Or at least it should.
I'm getting off topic.
Kate Beaton has a wonderful gift for making history just pop right off the page in the most eye-searing way possible with her webcomic, "Hark! A Vagrant". She takes on Queen Victoria, Admiral Nelson, Napoleon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Curies, plus a bunch of folks from Canadian history that I do not recognize, but probably should. Hell, the woman put Chiune Sugihara in a damn strip.
That is some neatness right there.
Also, she has a book out.
It's not all history, mind, but it's all good. Go read it.
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