Remembered events appear regularly in newspaper columns and blog posts and even in cartoons and graphic memoirs. The cartoon reproduced here, called “Treasure,” from Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant series, neatly conveys the basic features of the genre: It tells a compelling story, vividly describes the writer and her younger self through simple but evocative drawings, and clearly conveys the autobiographical significance of digging up the “treasures” her younger self had buried. The cartoon also deftly captures the tension between what the writer felt as a child and what she feels now on remembering the day she buried her treasures.

Take a closer look at the cartoon.

Courtesy of Kate Beaton

Source: Beaton, Kate. “Treasure.” Hark, A Vagrant! Harkavagrant.com, 2007. Web. 20 Sept. 2012. www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=75