Tag: Kate Beaton

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...

Following the success of The Princess and the Pony , Kate Beaton has a follow up children's book coming from Scholastic in 2016, at least as indicated by this tweet.

Millennial comics superstars Kate Beaton, Luke Pearson and Noelle Stevenson have just been announced as the first guests at this year's SPX which will spotlight creators who have only worked in the 21st Century. So get ready to write either your 6000-word think piece or your series of tweets on what this all means. This year's SPX will be held September 19-20, with over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, 22 programming slots and countless rollaway beds. IT's the annual Camp Comics on the schedule and this sounds like a real watershed year.

Although most of these books have been announced, here's all of Drawn & Quarterly's fall schedule in all it's glory. You can read the complete catalog here -- commentary below is my own.

An autobiographical comic about her time working at the Fort McMurray logging camp. :

The long awaited second collection of Kate Beaton's madly popular Hark! A Vagrant comic is finally on its way, and it's called Step Aside, Pops, a phrase we'll all be saying a lot come September. Tom Devlin acquired the book for Drawn & Quarterly. “Kate’s wit is sharper than ever in Step Aside, Pops,” said Devlin in a statement. “She’s found the perfect way to explore her love of history, while effortlessly deflating the pompous, self-righteous figures of authority we were taught to respect in school. Her restlessness has made her drawings even funnier."

Every year cartoonist Kate Beaton returns to her parents house in the maritimes for the holidays, and the series of hilarious and touching comics that result are getting to be a holiday tradition, as...

Kate Beaton's DUCKS, an autobiographical comic about her time working at Fort McMurray runs five parts and here are links. Fort McMurray is part of mining operation around the Athabasca oil sands in northern...

Before she was a world-famous cartoonist, Kate Beaton studied history and worked at a oil mine in remote Fort McMurry Canada. Once in a while she does a comic about her experiences there. Here's...

Halloween is heating up. Kate Beaton has taken some old Halloween cards and imagined . the terrifying situations depicted

This was an announcement Heidi told me about at the convention with perhaps the most excitement I've ever seen present within a human person at any singular point in time. As revealed in interview...

In a story on how Grumpy Cat—the dwarf cat that people (including The Beat) will line up for hours just to see—is worth $1 million, it's revealed that one of her signature catch phrases first appeared in a cartoon by Kate Beaton. Which wouldn't be so odd except that Grumpy's manager, who is a "meme manager", is very litigious about other people stealing his own memes. Beaton, who hasn't received any money from the cat or her manager, is philosophical about the whole thing, writing: