I'm not too surprised by the Order of the Stick thing - people who remember D&D fondly are probably a pretty good demographic at this point, and it's managed to write a pretty epic storyline with jokes in every one of 600=-odd strips. They have an enormous and devoted forum/community - but then who doesn't?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 20 February 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
never saw pokey the penguin raise $1 million on kickstarter. just sayin
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 20 February 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
three word phrase is hit/miss but sometimes really great: http://threewordphrase.com/gregor.htm
― s.clover, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
so good: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=338
― Mordy, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
she's the best
― call all destroyer, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
agreed
― Mordy, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
set forth the demon horde
― the magic butterfly made everyone feel relaxed (Abbbottt), Friday, 22 June 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
I love Kate Beaton
the conversations she links to at the bottom of that post are amazing too. here's one: http://twitpic.com/9lvz6c
― Mordy, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
"to hell with her then" http://harkavagrant.com/mothersdaycomic.png
― Mordy, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
just crushing: http://harkavagrant.com/loss.png
― Mordy, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
she's pretty great
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 June 2012 06:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, hooray for Kate Beaton.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 22 June 2012 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
Have you guys seen her give a reading? It's totally inimitable, she has this amazing tossed-off rapid fire Hepburn delivery.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
It's comfort-food -- not quite junk food but definitely not haute -- but Bad Machinery really hits the spot for me. Love those kids. Allison is a pretty tight plotter.
― Biff Wellington (WmC), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
Bad Machinery is really good. I love the dialogue.
― Mordy, Friday, 22 June 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Allison's stuff is great. Amazing how far he's come along, not that Bobbins was bad by any means, but his "kid's" material is so beyond it now.
― Nhex, Friday, 22 June 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://beatonna.tumblr.com/post/26661311030/teen-consolidation-all-the-teens-in-one-place-i
― Mordy, Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
i should really just start a thread for her
http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/ponyghost.png
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
I really like the Hark! A Vagrants I've seen posted here. I'd never heard of Kate Beaton before.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
her comics are available on the web and most people probably know of her from the web but i dunno if it's really a webcomic other than by those two criteria.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
i thought all of her comics originate on the web? what else would the definition be?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
i kno lolwiki but the first line of her wiki page is "Kate Beaton (born September 8, 1983) is a Canadian webcomic artist."
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
well at some point garfield will also fit those criteria, too, so there needs to be something else.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
Godddddd I love Mystery Solving Teens.
http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/teenssm.png
No matter how many times I read this, it fucking slays.
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
Teen exhaling smoke with his head back while his friend flicks a cigarette
The baker! I knew it!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
or perhaps a doobage
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
xp
http://www.4thletter.net/wp-content/plugins/smilies-themer/SAEmoticons/emot-colbert.png
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
i have an easier time thinking of garfield as a webcomic than hark a vagrant to be honest.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
I love Kate's reading of this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlDCSDdYg1k
― jim, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
All of her comics created for the web seems kind of a crucial distinction from Garfield.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 07:36 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, as webcomics go.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
why is there no hark rss feed whhhyyyyyyyyyyy
― ledge, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 10:30 (twelve years ago) link
rss link here http://beatonna.tumblr.com/
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
i was looking for examples of really good webcomics a few years before, and really couldn't find any. I thought perry bible fellowship and hark a vagrant would fit the bill, but it turned out both comics had been published in print before putting stuff on the web, and it seemed like the web being the primary delivery vehicle for the comics is just an economic decision rather than an aesthetic one.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure it's ever an aesthetic decision - has anyone claimed that they would turn down an offer of being printed in newspapers because their art is ill-suited to the medium?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
the dude who made leisure town said he thought his stuff would look terrible in print.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
hark a vagrant was published before its livejournal days? PBF was "published" but i think in a student newspaper or something
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
every time this thread comes up i have to force myself from turning it into an obnoxious personal blog
I think it's more that Kate Beaton was doing her stuff for her student newspaper with her art style and presumably catering to her interests, so it wasn't called that, but (I guess, I've never seen it?) none of it would look out of place in hark a vagrant.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think hark was either in a newspaper or a zine. i'm not very hopeful for webcomics anymore, and i feel like being crappy is sort of a prerequisite for being one, but i do feel like it's a distinct thing from regular comics (not just in being crappy), and hark a vagrant doesn't feel like one (not just because it's not crappy) while garfield does (not just because it's crappy). i'm not sure what's the litmus test, though.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
You have completely lost me on Garfield, that is the definition of a newspaper comic (and not just because it's crappy)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
bad machinery is an amazing webcomic. i don't know why all webcomics would by definition be shitty. it's a medium of distribution more than an aesthetic preference or style.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
imho, if you distribute comix primary online, then it's a webcomic - especially if the distribution happens on a web page that people can visit
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
obv during period of transition some comix that were primarily print comix may become predominately online and we may want to distinguish between comix that started in newspapers but now are read primarily online, but that's more of a legacy thing i think and really i don't know why aesthetics should come into play at all here
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
but we don't call music distributed primarily online webmusic -- i do think there's an aesthetic (or something like an aesthetic -- an ethos?) that's in play.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
the label isn't great.but without webcomics we wouldn't have Kate Beaton, KC Green, lots of others but uughh too lazy to start writing essays
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link