#Source: Hark! A Vagrant

[nerdytextileartist]

Incorrect Quotes- DC Comics Edition #13

Lex Luthor, holding a photo: I carry a picture of Superman to always fill me with vengance.

Mercy Graves: Makes sense.

Luthor: I take it with me to the bathroom and sleep with it on the other pillow by my face.

Mercy is stunned, speechless.

#dc comics #dc #incorrect quotes #incorrect dc quotes #superman #lex luthor #mercy graves #source: hark! a vagrant

[soren-apologist]

the crowning achievement of my career as a hobby artist

#source is hark! a vagrant but it really doesn’t need my introduction #fire emblem #tellius #shroudraws #shitpost #ikesoren

[dottyistired]

i saw a post implying manfred would have burned all miles' pictures of gregory and uh you do u but respectfully: no

this is what he would do with them:

#source: hark a vagrant #ace attorney #manfred von karma #gregory edgeworth #dottypost

[incorrectquotesideas-deactivated]

Person A: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Person B: Thanks, but I was kind of expecting a girl.

Person A: Seven years we’ve known each other, and now you don’t want to see me jump out of a cake? You insult me!

#source: hark a vagrant #incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes ideas #incorrect quotes prompts

[incorrect-mossvale-quotes]

Maurice: Courtney, where is our son?

Courtney: Huh?

Maurice: Our baby!

Courtney: (visibly sitting on Baby Reese) What baby?

#source: hark a vagrant

[finillatte]

happy bday king

Source for the original comic:

#neku sakuraba #HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BABYGIRL ILY FOREVER #ntwewy #twewy

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Kate Beaton's "Ducks"

It’s been more than a decade since I began thrilling to Kate Beaton’s spectacular, hilarious snark-history webcomic “Hark! A Vagrant,” pioneering work that mixed deceptively simple lines, superb facial expressions, and devastating historical humor:

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/03/23/hark-a-vagrant-the-book/

Beaton developed Hark! into a more explicit political allegory, managing the near-impossible trick of being trenchant and topical while still being explosively funny. Her second Hark! collection, Step Aside, Pops, remains essential reading, if only for her brilliant “straw feminists”:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/09/15/step-aside-pops-a-new-hark-a-vagrant-collection-that-delights-and-dazzles/

Beaton is nothing if not versatile. In 2015, she published The Princess and the Pony, a picture book that I read to my own daughter — and which inspired me to write my own first picture book, Poesy the Monster-Slayer:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/07/the-princess-and-the-pony-from-kate-hark-a-vagrant-beaton/

Beaton, then, has a long history of crossing genres in her graphic novels, so the fact that she published a memoir in graphic novel form is no surprise. But that memoir, Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands, still marks a departure for her, trading explosive laughs for subtle, keen observations about labor, climate and gender:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/ducks/

In 2005, Beaton was a newly minted art-school grad facing a crushing load of student debt, a debt she would never be able to manage in the crumbling, post-boom economy of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Like so many Maritimers, she left the home that meant everything for her to travel to Alberta, where the tar sands oil boom promised unmatched riches for anyone willing to take them.

Beaton’s memoir describes the following four years, as she works her way into a series of oil industry jobs in isolated company towns where men outnumber women 50:1 and where whole communities marinate in a literally toxic brew of carcinogens, misogyny, economic desperation and environmental degradation.

The story that follows is — naturally — wrenching, but it is also subtle and ambivalent. Beaton finds camaraderie with — and empathy for — the people she works alongside, even amidst unimaginable, grinding workplace harassment that manifests in both obvious and glancing ways.

Early reviews of Ducks rightly praised it for this subtlety and ambivalence. This is a book that makes no easy characterizations, and while it has villains — a content warning, the book depicts multiple sexual assaults — it carefully apportions blame in the mix of individual failings and a brutal system.

This is as true for the environmental tale as it is for the labor story: the tar sands are the world’s filthiest oil, an energy source that is only viable when oil prices peak, because extracting and refining that oil is so energy-intensive. The slow, implacable, irreversible impact that burning Canadian oil has on our shared planet is diffuse and takes place over long timescales, making it hard to measure and attribute.

But the impact of the tar sands on the bodies and minds of the workers in the oil patch, on the First Nations whose land is stolen and despoiled in service to oil, and on the politics of Canada are far more immediate. Beaton paints all this in with the subtlest of brushstrokes, a thousand delicate cuts that leave the reader bleeding in sympathy by the time the tale is told.

Beaton’s memoir is a political and social triumph, a subtle knife that cuts at our carefully cultivated blind-spots about industry, labor, energy, gender, and the climate. But it’s also — and not incidentally — a narrative and artistic triumph.

In other words, Beaton’s not just telling an important story, she’s also telling a fantastically engrossing story — a page-turner, filled with human drama, delicious tension, likable and complex characters, all the elements of a first-rate tale.

Likewise, Beaton’s art is perfectly on point. Hark!’s secret weapon was always Beaton’s gift for drawing deceptively simple human faces whose facial expressions were indescribably, superbly perfect, conveying irreducible mixtures of emotion and sentiment. If anything, Ducks does this even better. I think you could remix this book so that it’s just a series of facial expressions and you’d still convey all the major emotional beats of the story.

Graphic memoirs have emerged as a potent and important genre in this century. And women have led that genre, starting with books like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006):

https://cbldf.org/banned-challenged-comics/case-study-fun-home/

But also the increasingly autobiographical work of Lynda Barry, culminating in her 2008 One! Hundred! Demons!:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/one-hundred-demons/

(which should really be read alongside her masterwork on creativity, 2019’s Making Comics):

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/05/lynda-barrys-making-comics-is-one-of-the-best-most-practical-books-ever-written-about-creativity/

In 2014, we got Cece Bell’s wonderful El Deafo:

https://memex.craphound.com/2014/11/25/el-deafo-moving-fresh-ya-comic-book-memoir-about-growing-up-deaf/

Which was part of the lineage that includes the work of Lucy Knisley, especially later volumes like 2020’s Stepping Stones:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/09/enhanced-rock-weathering/#knisley

Along with Jen Wang’s 2019 Stargazing:

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/25/stargazing-jen-wangs-semi-autobiographical-graphic-novel-for-young-readers-is-a-complex-tale-of-identity-talent-and-loyalty/

2019 was actually a bumper-crop year for stupendous graphic memoirs by women, rounded out by Ebony Flowers’s Hot Comb:

https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/hot-comb/

And don’t forget 2017’s dazzling My Favorite Thing is Monsters, by Emil Ferris:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-a-haunting-diary-of-a-young-girl-as-a-dazzling-graphic-novel/

This rapidly expanding, enthralling canon is one of the most exciting literary trends of this century, and Ducks stands with the best of it.

[Image ID: The cover of the Drawn & Quarterly edition of Kate Beaton's 'Ducks.']

#pluralistic #kate beaton #hark a vagrant #tar sands #oil sands #big oil #carbon #climate emergency #memoir #books #graphic novels #alberta #fort mac #fort macmurray #misogyny #boomtowns #gift guide #drawn and quarterly #reviews

[insanityisdivine]

I nee help finding source of this meme recreation as well

Google reverse says from know your meme but couldn't have sworn the OP posted it on tumblr first

If anyone could let me know, I'd be grateful and then I can reblog their OP again and properly tag it

#cherik #comic #meme #nemesis

[sammysdewysensitiveeyes]

My minor pet peeve of the day - when panels from of a webcomic get pulled out of context and turned into a meme, and passed around and parodied with no acknowledgement of the original creator or where it came from. Like I saw so many variations of "Clean all the things!" from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half, or parodies of the "Nemesis" comics from Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant with no link back or "credit to" info. Allie Brosh's "Why I'll Never Be An Adult" task failure chart gets recreated and posted on Reddit with the exact same text retyped as a "meme" with no credit given to her at all. People take this stuff and either pass it off as their own, or as a sourceless meme.

I don't care about pulling moments from TV shows, like the "Donald Glover carrying pizza walking into a room that's on fire" meme (from Community) or the "Good for her" meme (from Arrested Development) or the Castiel love confession news format, because those are all well-known shows and the actors originally got paid. But if it's an independent creator or a webcomic, link that shit back or acknowledge the source. Support small-time creators.

If you are parodying this stuff or using as a meme with credit given, I have no quarrel with you friend, you are doing it right.

#I'm sure I've been guilty of this myself from not knowing the source #my blog is equal parts fandom nonsense and complaining these days

[unforth]

Reminder

What is a repost?

A repost is any instance where a created work (art, animated gif, fanvid, photograph, comic, etc.) is copied from wherever it was originally posted and inserted into a new post made by someone who is NOT the creator. This is not the same as reblogging/retweeting/sharing posts. Any instance where the social media account of the creator is still the originating source for the post is not a repost, and in general creators strongly encourage people to interact with their own work that they’ve posted – that’s why they’ve posted it! Please, we’re begging you, reblog creators! A repost is a brand-new post made by any other account owner. 

Reposts can be authorized or unauthorized. "Authorized" just means the person making the repost has permission. Authorized reposts are a-ok! Thank you, people who are aware of and conscious of and considerate of creators and help disseminate their works with permissions and links back to the original maker.

In any other instance, it's unauthorized, and the vast majority of creators don't like to see their work reposted without permission! This holds, like, umpteen times more true if the original creator isn't credited in the repost.

And to be clear, "not mine," "credit to the owner," "I found it on Pinterest," and any other iteration of "I didn't make this and I don't know who did but I decided to post it anyway" ISN'T FUCKING OKAY. DON'T FUCKING DO IT.

The vast majority of reposting I see on this website isn't authorized, and I'm so fucking tired of it, so just to clarify since apparently some people still need this explained:

Is it okay to repost...

...artwork? ❌ NO.

...animated gifs? ❌ NO.

...photographs? ❌ NO.

...comics?❌ NO.

...fanvids? ❌ NO.

...fanfiction? ❌ NO.

...memes? ❌ NO.

...meta? ❌ NO.

...anything? ❌ NO. ❌ NO. ❌ NO. UNLESS THE CREATOR SAYS "NO WORRIES," DON'T REPOST IT. AND ESPECIALLY DON'T REPOST IT WITHOUT LINKING BACK TO THEM EVEN IF YOU DO HAVE PERMISSION.

I don't think a lot of you realize just how much work goes into editing screen captures, editing con pictures, editing gifs and videos, and...everything. Yes, even creating a meme edit or shitpost. I think many folks have never made anything themselves and seriously think the pictures come fully formed from the magic internet box. THEY DON'T. It takes work to make screen caps, gifs, photographs, artworks, comics, stories (of course), and everything else look good. If you didn't do that work yourself? DON'T POST IT.

(And while we're at it...don't do edits of other peoples' work without permission either!!!)

Look, this is incredibly fucking simple and I can't believe we still need to fucking explain this to people.

IF YOU DIDN'T MAKE A THING AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHO DID, DON'T POST IT.

IF YOU DIDN'T MAKE A THING AND CAN'T BE FUSSED TO SPEND THIRTY SECONDS TO ADD A LINK TO WHOEVER DID MAKE IT, DON'T POST IT.

IF A CREATOR SAYS "DON'T REPOST MY WORK" THEN DON'T FUCKING REPOST THEIR WORK.

You're not helping people "get exposure." You're not helping anyone except maybe your own selfish ass. You're f.u.c.k.i.n.g. s.t.e.a.l.i.n.g. and I am so fucking sick of seeing it.

(also, to be clear: this applies even to "big famous" creators like XKCD, Hark! A Vagrant, and others. The frequency with which I see people who are otherwise conscientious about avoiding reposts reblogging stuff just yoinked from "well known" sources boggles my mind. Can we PLEASE stop already??? And like. I know there are exceptions to this. Some memes especially are just so deep in our collective psyche that crediting the original creators every time is obviously absolutely impossible. But like. I wish there was an understanding that all of these things take work. YES EVEN MAKING SHITPOSTS. At least try to give people some fucking credit. *weary sigh*)

YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO TAKE OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK.

Seriously have some fucking manners istg some of you were raised in a barn. (I say as if my followers are the people responsible for this. I know y'all aren't. Especially my mutuals, I know y'all are awesome. I'm just salty as hell and tired.)

#unforth rambles #i shouldn't post this #but i've seen a few serial reposters recently in the main danmei tagsd #and that always makes me salty #pic-an-hour accounts I'M LOOKING AT YOU #keep that shit on twitter it won't fly here

[imissgrantland]

One of the Internet’s Funniest Cartoonists on Why Her New Book Is So Different

One of the Internet’s Funniest Cartoonists on Why Her New Book Is So Different

Hark! A Vagrant creator Kate Beaton on her years working in the Alberta oil sands and her memoir, Ducks. Source: One of the Internet’s Funniest Cartoonists on Why Her New Book Is So Different

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[incorrect-rainbow-rocket-quotes]

Ghetsis, to a small Anthea and Concordia: Children, would you like the present I brought back from the forest? It’s not what you asked for AT ALL!

Ghetsis, holding up N by the scruff of his shirt like a kitten: It’s a sad boy I picked up in a gutter! He’s a ghastly little fellow, but maybe you’ll get used to it.

#Source: Hark! A Vagrant #Pokemon #Pokemon Villains #Incorrect Quotes #Rainbow Rocket #Team Rainbow Rocket #Plasma Leader Ghetsis #Ghetsis #(Thank you Discord for coming in strong yet again)

[incorrectkumokoquotes]

Ariel: I carry a picture of Kumoko to always fill me with vengeance.

Ael: That makes sense.

Ariel: I take it to the bathroom with me, and sleep with it on the other pillow by my face.

Ael: …

[Cut to Ariel lying in bed, a small picture of Kumoko on a pillow beside her. A larger portrait of Kumoko hangs above the headboard. Ariel reaches longingly towards the smaller image]

#kumo desu ga nani ka #so i'm a spider so what #incorrect quotes #incorrect kumoko #this is a submission #source: hark! a vagrant

[emmikay]

(Rum Tum Tugger holding baby Sillabub)

Rum Tum Tugger: You're going to hate us when you're a teenager. But we love you so much. I'll be a cool Uncle, you can do drugs if you want. A little cocaine.

Demeter: Give back my child.

#cats the musical #rum tum tugger #demeter #sillabub #tugger is the best uncle #demestrap family #incorrect quotes #source: hark! a vagrant

[incorrect-mossvale-quotes]

The First Evil: Everyone is mad here. I’m mad. And you’re mad. 

Quentin: What?! I’m not mad because you tell me I am! (starts hurling magic at it) GASLIGHTING SACK OF SHIT!

#source: hark a vagrant

[incorrectstarkfamily]

Robb, with their child: You're going to hate me when you're a teenager. But I love you so much. I'm scared! It's not fair! I'll be a cool Dad, you can do drugs if you want. A little cocaine.

Talisa: Give me that baby.

#incorrect game of thrones #incorrect got #incorrect asoiaf #incorrect quotes #game of thrones #robb stark #talisa maegyr #robb x talisa #jeyne westerling #source: hark! a vagrant