![]() ![]() ![]() The drawings in “Hark!”-funny, feminist, fond of erudite slapstick-married a deep knowledge of visual art to an engaging lightness of touch. She honed her wit to an exquisite sharpness in her Web comic “Hark! A Vagrant,” a perpetually delightful trove of goofy humor, often about historical obscura, that ran from 2007 to 2018. Beaton’s arrangement of space-the cartoonist’s equivalent of timing-is exceptionally skillful she seems to know just what to show and what to leave out, when to draw out a scene to absurdist and excruciating length and when to compress a joke to a single frame. These narrow white strips are known as gutters, and their skillful placement is what makes one isolated image seem to suggest the next. ![]() Her drawings are accomplished and often beautiful, but her work is distinguished above all by the quality of attention she brings to the areas between the panels of her comics. The Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton is a master of liminal spaces. ![]()
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