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#Hark a vagrant poe series#
I mostly just did this for the fun of it, but it certainly gave the mini series an extra something. It can also be a good way to pay tribute to historical figures and/or to critique the way that history is recorded and remembered too.Īlthough this is something that I haven’t done that often in my own occasional webcomics, this mini series of mine features silly historical cameos from Ada Lovelace, Karl Marx and Jack The Ripper. As such, it is perfect for irreverent humour. The more subtle answer is that it is a very good source of comedy, for the simple reason that history is often treated with a very high degree of seriousness and reverence. So, why do webcomics and animated sitcoms do this kind of thing? Well, the obvious answer is because they can.
#Hark a vagrant poe update#
This comic update revolves around Jules Verne sending Edgar Allen Poe some obssessive fan mail, and it is one of many examples of historical comedy in this webcomic. These are two panels from episode 213 of Kate Beaton’s “Hark! A Vagrant!”. After all, you don’t have to find actors or models who look like the people in question.Īlthough this sort of thing can also be done easily in prose fiction ( John Kendrick Bangs’ “ A House-Boat On The Styx” being the classic example), it obviously lacks the visual elements found in webcomics and animated sitcoms.Īnyway, a good example of historical cameos can be seen in an episode from season two of the animated sci-fi sitcom “Futurama” called “A Head In The Polls” which features a hall filled with the re-animated heads of many US Presidents, who have amusing conversations with the show’s main characters. So, yes, this sort of thing happens as much for the sake of the webcomic creators as it does for their audience.Ģ) Historical cameos: One of the great things about any drawing-based medium is the fact that it is ridiculously easy to include amusing cameos from historical figures. In addition to this, I also recently tried to make comics that included no dialogue whatsoever.
It’s also something a bit different for the audience as well.įor example, my own occasional webcomics have featured things like science fiction story arcs ( like this one, this one and this one), detective stories ( like this one, this one, this one and this one), a zombie story and even a story arc set in 1990s America. To break with routine for a while and remind ourselves of how fun making comics can be. The characters, visual style, subject matter and tone of this “wild west” sci-fi comic is significantly different from the usual videogame-themed “Penny Arcade” webcomic updates that they post on their site.īut, why do webcomic makers do this? Well, there are several reasons – but the main one is that it gives us a chance to try something a bit different. These are two panels from “Sand” by Holkins & Krahulik (2013). Although it’s been quite a while since I’ve really read it regularly, Holkins and Krahulik’s long-running gaming webcomic “ Penny Arcade” will occasionally include more “serious” graphic novel style story arcs in place of the usual topical gaming comics. This is mostly because some webcomics will occasionally do something similar to this, where they will include a somewhat different side story in place of their usual self-contained comic updates. Not only that, it also made me think about webcomics too. Yet, it still works as an episode of “American Dad”. The episode is so wonderfully cheesy on so many levels, the “ Doom” -style dystopian future, the 1980s-style electronic and heavy metal music, the stylised American Christmas scenes and the fact that it’s a cheesy sci-fi/horror/comedy/thriller story in the middle of a sitcom. This post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror comedy episode of “American Dad” is very different to a typical episode of the show, and yet it works really well! This is a screenshot from “Rapture’s Delight” (2009/10).
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