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International Nurses Day was recently marked at one of its residential care centres in Clonmel by the HSE’s mental health ...
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival mounted its biggest weekend in 2025 since before the pandemic, overcoming logistical and geopolitical uncertainty to draw an estimated 28,000 attendees June 6–8 to the ...
The Doug Wright Awards, named after the influential Canadian cartoonist, annually celebrates excellence in comics across ...
Beaton, whose “Hark, a Vagrant!” webcomic has won her a devoted audience, makes her picture-book debut with a story starring Pinecone, a Viking princess, and the dumpy, walleyed pony sometimes ...
A laugh-out-loud picture book from bestselling comics creator Kate Beaton about a brave shark girl bent on revenge after a greedy fishing captain messes with her waters. When Shark Girl is ...
Award-winning cartoonist and author Kate Beaton is in Halifax Friday to discuss the enduring connection between art-making, labour and community. Beaton is in town to deliver the 2025 Cyril J.
In the foothills of the Cape Breton Highlands, up a long snow-covered driveway and inside Kate Beaton’s rambling white farmhouse, a preschooler stomps into the artist’s office clenching an ...
Ducks by Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton has won the 2024 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. The Swiss-based prize rewards works of all literary genres regardless of the language they're ...
Ducks – Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton published by Bao Publishing for "A precise and detailed story that combines well with the clean and very simple drawing. The characters and ...
Beaton was named the best writer/artist and her book Ducks won best graphic memoir. In Ducks, Beaton tells the autobiographical story of leaving her tight-knit seaside Nova Scotia community to ...