Kate Beaton

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Kate Beaton at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo in Calgary (2011)

Kate Beaton (born September 8, 1983 in Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian comic artist . Her best-known work is the webcomic Hark! A Vagrant .

Life

Beaton is from Nova Scotia and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and anthropology from Mount Allison University in 2005 . During her third and fourth years of college, she drew comics for the college magazine. She also worked in several museums.

Career

In 2007 Beaton posted a few of her comics online on her website, katebeaton.com , and a live journal blog. In May 2008, their website moved to their current website, Hark! A Vagrant to. The comics are drawn with the MS Paint program in a simple but expressive style.

The webcomic Hark! A Vagrant is published irregularly. Thematically historical figures, such as James Joyce or Ida B. Wells , as well as fictional characters from Western literature are dealt with. Beaton himself also appears.

Articles on Beaton have appeared in Wired , Macleans , and Comic Book Resources . In June 2009 she published the book Never Learn Anything from History . Two of Beaton's comics were published in The New Yorker magazine. Her second book followed in September 2011, Hark! A Vagrant , recommended by TIME as one of the top ten fictional books of the year. Beaton also worked on Marvel's Strange Tales anthology .

In 2015, Hark! A Vagrant as Care! Lumpenpack translated into German.

Beaton has received several awards for her work. For Never Learn Anything from History , she received the Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent in 2009. Hark! A Vagrant won a total of four Harvey Awards in 2011 and 2012. She was also nominated for the Joe Shuster Award in 2009 and 2010.

Prices

  • 2009 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent for Hark! A vague
  • 2011 Harvey Award in the Best Online Comics Work category for Hark! A vagrant!
  • 2011 Ignatz Award in the Outstanding Online Comic category for Hark! A vagrant!
  • 2012 Harvey Awards in the Best Online Comics Work category for Hark! A vagrant!
  • 2012 Harvey Award in the Special Award for Humor in Comics category for Hark! A vagrant!
  • 2012 Harvey Award in the Best Cartoonist category for Hark! A vagrant!
  • 2016 Eisner Award in the Best Humor Publication category for Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection

Web links

Commons : Kate Beaton  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kate Beaton: About . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Beth Dunn: Interview with Kate Beaton . Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kate Beaton: Hark! A Vagrant . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Web cartoonist Kate Beaton's New Project Involves a Fat Pony . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ Alexandra Shimo: Making fun of Canadian history . In: Macleans . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  6. ↑ Shaun Manning: Kate Beaton Debuts w / Darwin at MySpace DHP . In: CBR News . Comic Book Resources . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ Kate Beaton: Hark! A Vagrant . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  8. ^ David Hains: Kate Beaton in New Yorker . In: Sequential: Canadian Comics News and Culture . June 3, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  9. ↑ Lev Grossman : 7. Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton . In: Time , December 7, 2011. 
  10. ↑ Overview of Kate Beaton on marvel.com . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  11. ^ Perlentaucher.de: Kate Beaton. Watch out! Rag pack . Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  12. ^ A b Doug Wright Awards: Past Winners . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  13. ↑ a b 2011 Harvey Awards . Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 5, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harveyawards.org
  14. ↑ a b c d Congratulations to the Harvey Award Recipients! . Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 5, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harveyawards.org
  15. ^ Nominations for the 2009 Joe Shuster Awards . The Joe Shuster Awards. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  16. ↑ joeshusterawards: Nominations for the 2010 Joe Shuster Awards . The Joe Shuster Awards. March 17, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  17. ↑ 2011 Ignatz Awards . Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  18. ↑ Comic-Con 2016: 2016 Eisner Award Winners Revealed - IGN . July 23, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Beaton, Kate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Nova Scotia