A comic that sums up 90% of the "advice for startup founders" literature

harkavagrant.com

47 points·smacktoward··11 comments

It's worth taking the time to read his comment below the comic as well. Nothing to do with startups but still worthwhile.

You'll note that "Hark, A Vagrant" is written by Kate Beaton, a comic artist, history major (and woman) who hails from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, now based out of NYC.

Her comic focuses mainly on historical, literary, or just ridiculous topics, and is awesome.

To be fair, the avatar is a guy with a beard.

"... To be fair, the avatar is a guy with a beard ..."

and under the icon a name, 'Kate Beaton'

Yep, that's why I mentioned that it was Kate Beaton!

Sorry, my intent wasn't to pedant the situation (although i think i have done anyway :\ ), i just wanted to point out a female comic artist who i think is badass :)

I've just read forward a couple of comics, and there's some amazing stuff in there. Just finished reading about Matthew Henson and how he was first to the north pole.

It's like xkcd, but for history instead of maths/physics/CS.

Indeed! I'm a huge fan of her work, glad to see others enjoying it as well.

If you like the comic, Ms. Beaton has all her online historical comics indexed by subject here:

http://harkavagrant.com/archivecat.php

And she's published a book of them as well that Amazon picked as one of their "best books of 2011":

http://www.amazon.com/Hark-Vagrant-Kate-Beaton/dp/1770460608

Upvoted purely for the story of the Guinea Pig Club. I think the poster is bringing his own spin to the comic ;)

Even though the comic was funny I felt the title was really misleading, but you're right: the article below it was well worth the read.

History comics? This is amazing...

The contingency plan is do it right the first time!

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