![]() "My favorite part is so bananas it's when Hindley, who is Catherine's brother, has a baby and he accidentally drops the baby off the balcony. I like that one and I like 'Dracula' because they both have scenes that are not as popularized as much because they are too weird and they never make it to the movies. It was a safe bet and it was super, super insane. "It's really iconic for one thing, so I wasn't taking a gamble that people knew what it was, which is always something I worry about. "I decided to do the 'Wuthering Heights' over a huge stretch of time because that book is so insane," Beaton said. The very last question came from a fan that liked Beaton's comics about classic literary figures and wanted to know which one was her favorite to mess with. "I felt more and more responsibility to flesh out the subject every time, so you saw the panels go from this six-panel short thing to these long things of about six comics each that cover a broader area of the subject." "Comics are an amazing mnemonic device, that's why we remember things from them better than we did if we read a chapter from our history books," Beaton continued. People really responded to it, so I kept it up. "Then when I started making jokes it was natural. ![]() "The mash-ups became super popular in the last couple of years - I think that's just how I study history, when I try to understand any particular event I can't help but do it from a modern perspective," Beaton said. "My mom and dad are proud and they don't read web comics - they don't really get the humor but they have never discouraged me, they only worry as any parent would about, 'Do you have an exit plan?' No!īeaton's work is characterized by her offbeat humorĪnother fan wanted to know about how she approaches historical fiction and her historical mash-ups. "My sisters are our age, they're proud, they both go to Calgary Comic Con and say, 'Oh, you're famous!'" Beaton continued. "My family." Beaton said, then paused for effect as the audience laughed. The audience member then asked if Beaton's family understood her humor. To the next audience member Beaton said she really enjoyed her historical comics about the Japanese swordsman Musashi. "The better a sketch I have the more genuine the line is and the better the expression," Beaton said, adding that she avoids PhotoShopping and has a very "basic" approach to art. "It's not like an attack on anything, comics and movies, those types of things are everywhere and we were just trying to make each other laugh," Beaton said of the strips.Īsked about her technical process, Beaton said she usually draws in a sketchbook for a while before putting pencil and pen to paper. The fan then asked how Beaton balanced her love of mainstream comics, which often embrace the same stereotypes, with her feminism. ![]() "They're only vaguely human and they don't know anything of what it's like to be a person, they just know to 'kick ass' and have your ass out!" "They're a parody of the characters where Hollywood is like, 'Ladies, stop complaining, here's a strong lady that' you'll love,' and it's just tits and a gun," Beaton said. The audience broke into applause and cheers when the next fan mentioned liking Beaton's "Strong Female Characters" strips, co-created with Carly Monardo and Meredith Gran. "When sports comes into a big cultural arena like that it can be really fascinating," Beaton said. Beaton said she would if it dovetailed into her other interests, giving the example of the 1955 Quebec hockey riot known as the Richard Riot which marked a turning point for the French-speaking minority in Canada, the unfair treatment of a Quebec hockey player leading them to rise up and demand equal rights. ![]() The next fan to the microphone asked about the wide range of subjects she parodies in her comics, from Canadian parliament to superheroes to historical figures, and wanted to know if she would parody sports or the Olympics.
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