Tag: Kate Beaton
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 5/7/2020: The Spirit of the Aughts is Alive in Pizza Island!
Plus: Marvel's digital gambit and why no one will ever give up on the comics-to-film dream.
A Year of Free Comics: Revisit days past with HARK! A VAGRANT
The long-running comic has years of archives to explore.
Interview: ‘This Is Serious’ Curator Alana Traficante talks Canadian comics’ place in art museums
47 Canadian indie cartoonists' work is on display until January.
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...
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...
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...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/14/16: This Donald Trump/Matt Furie crossover will leave you speechless!
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/653856168402681856
§ 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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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.
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.