King Baby by Kate Beaton (Scholastic) The second children’s book from acclaimed Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton is narrated by an egg-shaped baby who relegates demands with an overlord’s authority and facial expressions equally diabolical and cute. Featuring high repeat readability, this colourful, snappy tale will resonate with anyone who is, loves or has been […]
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Catching up with Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton has a lot on her plate. Within the past eight months, she moved home to Mabou, Cape Breton from Toronto; received a prestigious Eisner award for her book Step Aside, Pops! A Hark! A Vagrant Collection; and decided to devote full-time work to a new graphic novel based on her experience working in […]
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Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival is the big draw in comics
Liz Mac was terrified. It was the first time she was presenting her work as an illustrator at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival. And there she was, last August at Alderney Landing, beside local stars like cartoonist Andy Cotnam. A self-taught illustrator, she’d only been to DCAF once before, in 2014, and that was as an […]
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NS comic artist Kate Beaton receives Eisner Award
Kate Beaton, a Nova Scotian comic artist, received a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award at Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday. The prestigious award, considered to somewhat of an Oscar in the comic world, was granted to Beaton for the “Best Humor Publication” category, in recognition of her latest book Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! […]
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Kate Beaton on How Was Your Week?
The cartoonist we all love to love, Hark, A Vagrant‘s Kate Beaton, was on the January 13 episode of my favourite podcast, How Was Your Week? with Julie Klausner. It is very funny and they make fun of the Maritimes a bit. I am on this a bit late, I know. But it doesn’t change […]
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Kate Beaton signing tonight!
You only have a few hours to ready yourself for tonight’s Hark, A Vagrant! book signing by the one, the only, Kate Beaton. I suggest re-powdering your wig and brushing your fat pony. Beaton makes a stop at Strange Adventures Comic Bookshop (5262 Sackville) on her US and Canada-wide tour promoting her New York Times […]
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Kate Beaton’s drawing lessons
Sitting in Uncommon Grounds on Argyle, she is hunkered over a new comic about Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre. Her brown eyes are hidden behind her brown hair as she inks in her pencil drawings of the “celebrated liberator of South America” and his right-hand man. Kate Beaton’s comic, Hark! A Vagrant, covers […]