About Kate Beaton
Kathryn Moira Beaton is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other major works include the children's books The Princess and the Pony and King Baby, published in 2015 and 2016 respectively, and Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, published in 2022. Publishers Weekly named Ducks one of their top ten books of the year. Also in 2022, The Princess and the Pony was made into an Apple TV+ series called Pinecone & Pony, on which Beaton worked as an executive producer. In December of that year, she published the first of two popular batches of history-themed comic strips, whose subjects were ones suggested by at least twenty of her readers. A Vagrant won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic. A Vagrant won the 2011 Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work, having been nominated the previous year, and was also nominated for Joe Shuster Awards in 2009 and 2010. Time magazine named it one of the top ten fiction books of the year, with Lev Grossman calling it "the wittiest book of the year." Beaton's self-published Never Learn Anything from History won the 2009 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent.
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