Marat spends all his time in the tub because he really likes baths.Alternative Character Interpretation: Played for Laughs In-Universe.All Girls Want Bad Boys: Satirized using two of the authors who popularized the trope.Affectionate Parody: Of history and literature, among other things.Adipose Rex: 'George IV, You Are Too Fat To Be King.'.Adaptation Decay: Not of the comic itself, but Beaton has a pretty good theory for how this happened to Dr.Additionally, Kate Beaton has a personal tumblr which can be seen here, and a Live Journal here. On the 10th of October 2018 Beaton updated the website to inform readers that due to personal issues and continuing work on other projects she had decided that Hark! had run its course and the website would now be an archive of the comic with no new comics planned.

The webcomic went on hiatus in mid December 2016 as Beaton switched focus to a graphic novel she was working on, though she continued to post sporadic updates on her Tumblr.

Also, rather than use Alt Text, Beaton usually accompanies each comic with a short paragraph. Like most webcomics, there is little continuity between entries, and it rose to fame through Memetic Mutation taking hold on a few comics. Recurring themes include Beaton visiting her younger self, Canada, a pony called ' Fat Pony', and a story about a sailor who meets a mermaid. Hark! A Vagrant is a largely history-based Webcomic by Kate Beaton, best known for its historical comics, which are one-shots of varying length focusing on historical events or figures getting into pretty inaccurate situations.

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