Toronto cartoonist Kate Beaton is following 2011's “Hark! A Vagrant,” based on her improbably charming web comic, with a similarly wry historical ode, “Step Aside, Pops.”
She told the
Los Angeles Times:
I try to have a mix of things, with the comics about history and literature that made my name, to the pop culture comics that are always fun and bring in a wider audience. Sometimes I think I have a formula for it, but really when it comes down to it, “Hark” and “Pops” are made up of ideas that struck me as funny, or interesting. Wherever my head is at the moment. For a while I was doing a bunch of research on medieval life for a separate project, and so I think there are more medieval-flavored strips than others, and that sticks out. But it was what I was reading! So naturally it shows up.
Until its release, we eagerly wait.
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Source: Los Angeles Times