Her line is scratchy and her comics often look muddy. Her sensibility and aesthetics are far closer to The New Yorker than a newspaper comic strip page. This elicits the question of why on Earth Beaton is so popular? She writes gags about literature, history, and Canada. That said, it's very much a D&Q book. Beyond the sophistication of Beaton's art and her genuine wit, Hark! A Vagrant at its heart is a very Canadian book, and D&Q has always made a point of publishing Canadian cartoonists who write about Canadian issues. It currently at #2 after five weeks, trailing only the graphic novel version of Twilight. Needless to say, these aren't numbers that are typical for a niche publisher like Drawn & Quarterly and it will likely go through many printings for quite some time. Hark! A Vagrant has sold out at conventions across the country and entered the New York Times "Graphic Hardcover Books" Best Sellers list at #1 the week of its debut. She became a webcomics superstar within a year of her debut in 2007, drawing huge lines at events like SPX-to the general puzzlement of the print comics world. Any review of Kate Beaton's first officially published book has to discuss her meteoric rise in the cartooning ranks.
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