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Crowdfunding Watch: Creator of ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Needs Our Help

12/02/2017 1:30 pm by Andrea Ayres

Crowdfunding Watch: Creator of ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Needs Our Help

In 2007, Kate Beaton began delighting readers with her webcomic, Hark! A Vagrant. Beaton has since become known for her masterful comedic timing, seamless blend of history and poignant cultural commentary. Her impressive body of work includes the 2015, Step Aside, Pops and the children’s title, The Princess and the Pony. I’ve never met Beaton, but in interviews […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Hark! a vagrant, Kate Beaton, News, Webcomics, YouCaring

A year of free comics – Kate Beaton’s Holiday Comics 2016

01/30/2017 6:00 pm by Philippe Leblanc

A year of free comics – Kate Beaton’s Holiday Comics 2016

Kate Beaton is a Canadian national treasure. Her art is always lovely, her sense of humour refreshing and clever. Beaton offers us her holiday 2016 comic strip presented in two long posts. If you’re only familiar with her published books Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside Pops, this is a much more personal series of […]

Filed Under: Free Comics, News, Webcomics Tagged With: a year of free comics, canadian comics, holidays, Kate Beaton, Webcomics

Raina’s excellent week

09/16/2016 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Raina’s excellent week

It was quite a week for books by comics folks. Jerusalem AND Ghosts. Raina Telegemeier is on tour and kicked it off at  St. Anne School in San Francisco, with a crowd and a totally great tour kick off dress.   View this post on Instagram Well. ❤️ A post shared by Raina Telgemeier (@goraina) […]

Filed Under: Books, Top News Tagged With: Alan Moore, colleen af venable, Kate Beaton, matt phelan, Raina Telgemeier, ruth chan, vera brosgal

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/14/16: This Donald Trump/Matt Furie crossover will leave you speechless!

09/14/2016 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/14/16: This Donald Trump/Matt Furie crossover will leave you speechless!

"@codyave: @drudgereport @BreitbartNews @Writeintrump "You Can't Stump the Trump" https://t.co/0xITB7XeJV pic.twitter.com/iF6S05se2w" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2015 § I somehow missed the fact that Donald Trump and the alt-right/white supremacist movement had co-opted Pepe the Frog, a stoner character from Matt Furie’s cult stoner comedy comic Boys Club. But it is true. “That […]

Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits Tagged With: Alan Moore, Bloodshot, Donald Trump, graphic novels by women of color, Kate Beaton, matt furie, noah van sciver, pep the frog, steve lieber, tom gauld, Valiant, XKCD

Kate Beaton announces KING BABY pub date, discusses other projects

06/07/2016 11:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kate Beaton announces KING BABY pub date, discusses other projects

We told you a while ago about Kate Beaton’s new book King Baby. She’s updated her site with the pub date, which is this September. As with her bestseller The Princess and the Pony, King Baby will be published by Scholastic. Beaton also updated her readers on a few other projects, including, a secret animated […]

Filed Under: Books, Cartoonists Tagged With: Books, Cartoonists, Kate Beaton

Superhero fashion watch: Kate Beaton on Dagger’s “tit windows”

04/18/2016 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Superhero fashion watch: Kate Beaton on Dagger’s “tit windows”

Whether it’s a boob window or a tit window, female superheroes have a very particular fashion sense. It’s one that https://www.comicsbeat.com/when-the-top-heavy-must-wear-white/n noted on twitter the other day. That ink goes to a NSFW Storify, so I’ll link you on her webpage, and a few of the SFW Cloak and Dagger comics. I had a lot […]

Filed Under: Fashion, Marvel Tagged With: #Marvel, Cloak and Dagger, Fashion, Kate Beaton, tit windows

TCAF guest list expanding with even more international cartoonists

03/23/2016 10:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

TCAF guest list expanding with even more international cartoonists

  TCAF is coming down the pike, with dates of May 14th and 15th, and the guest list includes the usual bounty of international domestic and American. More are being announced daily but here’s the line-up thus far, and the poster by Kate Beaton: Canadian Cartoonists Kate Beaton – National treasure, creator of beloved graphic novels Hark! […]

Filed Under: CAFs, Cartoonists, Top News Tagged With: guests, Kate Beaton, TCAF, TCAF 2016

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 3: The year of diversity

01/07/2016 6:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 3: The year of diversity

Here’s the third part of our annual creator survey with a varied look from people in all aspects of the business from creators to publishers to journalists. As always, buried among the answers you will find a bunch of news items for the sharp eyed and also some preview art. In case you haven’t noticed, our panel certainly did: 2015 was the year diversity broke around the comics industry, although much, much, much more needs to be done. Read on to see what our our respondents thought about the year past and what they have coming for 2016.

Filed Under: Cartoonists, News Tagged With: Amy Chu, brandon easdton, Cartoonists, creators survey 23016, David Gallaher, david macho, Hope Larson, jim ottaviani, Joe Harris, joh nlind, jt yost, Julia Wertz, Kate Beaton, keith jones, lea seidman hernandez, mimi pond, News, patrick crotty, sean ford, Stuart Moore, Todd Allen

Holiday Comics: Kate Beaton’s annual Christmas comics

12/31/2015 12:04 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Holiday Comics: Kate Beaton’s annual Christmas comics

It’s becoming a tradition like plum pudding and A Christmas Story: Kate Beaton’s annual comics about her family from her trip home for Christmas. I’m not sure how they’re tagged but if you click around her Tumblr you’ll see them all. Kate’s family is no more odd or endearing than anyone’s and that what’s make these so universal. IF these don’t give you that fuzzy holiday feeling, nothing will.

Filed Under: Holidays, Webcomics Tagged With: Kate Beaton, Webcomics

And here’s the cover to Kate Beaton’s King Baby

12/17/2015 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

And here’s the cover to Kate Beaton’s King Baby

That Kate Beaton book we told you about has been officially announced. And yes, it’s called King Baby, and here’s the cover, courtesy of Publishers Weekly. The book will be out on Sept 13, 2016 from Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books. 
Beaton’s autocratic baby has been a feature of her tumblr for a while, and […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Books, Kate Beaton, king baby

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