REVIEW: Hark! A Vagrant Webcomic

Hark! A Vagrant! (Webcomic to Print)

Comics published on Livejournal on 2007 and on their current site 2008.

Book published 2011

Hark: A Vagrant Webcomic

· As this a webcomic, the original content was meant to be free to read online

· The book has but a selection of what the author intend for the purchaser to view, save for any drafts or bonus materials not included online

· The composition is self-contained and occasionally episodic, making it sort of a newspaper strip of sorts in updates

· Periodically, characters previously introduced return in a later comic, indicating a sort of continuity in the author’s work

· The webcomic site’s background is white, as with the pages of the printed book, therefore coinciding the layout to the viewer

· The webcomic provides further categorizations and footnotes left by the author in cyberspace not available in the printed copy

· The book, as it is something to purchase, it optional in reading the comic and therefore serves but a source of revenue for said author

· The schedule of the comic varies to the author’s pace of drawing and dedication, as opposed to other comic forms where there is a fixed schedule or a fixed editor

· Compared to the original first pages, the present updates show drastic improvement on the author’s part, mostly from keeping a consistency of drawing comics. This is made more prevalent with the webcomic format as the entire archive is readily available to the reader

· The webcomic version has commentary from the author below the work that takes no space, as the printed version would require pages be dedicated to commentary

· Billboards of several other comics and other media are constantly present on the webcomic, as a means for the author to gain money while making the comic free to read is present with this as a way to fund the comic to continue

Bibliography

Beaton, Kate. "Hark, a Vagrant: 335." Hark, a Vagrant: 335. Self Published, 26 Mar. 2012. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. .

Beaton, Kate. Hark!: A Vagrant. Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011. Print.