Kate Beaton, the mind that gave us perky revolutionaries and a roly-poly Napoleon, now tells the darker side of her life story: how she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil field.

"Ducks is about part of my time working at a mining site in Fort McMurray, the events are from 2008," wrote Beaton. "It is a complicated place, it is not the same for all, and these are only my ...

Kate Beaton is planning a "different direction" for her next project. The award-winning cartoonist has been studying her hometown and its residents for the follow-up to Hark! A Vagrant. "I've been ...

From Kate Beaton (the creator of Hark! A Vagrant) comes a new collection of comics that combines deadpan humor with minimalist style, drawing inspiration from often surprising historical figures.

SPX 2015: Hark! Kate Beaton brilliantly breathes the stuff of life into history's characters with her artfully smart new book, 'Step Aside Pops' ...

Talking fearing a favorite aunt with guest Kate Beaton.

Talking needy sisters, delicate breakups, and a deep dive into guest Kate Beaton’s new graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.

When it comes to rendering and sending up historical and literary characters, Kate Beaton is one of the most artful hands around. She manages to do in three panels what some professors can’t do ...

Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant collects her strips from the website of the same name--ingenious bathroom-wall riffs on history and classic literature that somehow squeeze ...

Kate Beaton’s widely acclaimed debut graphic memoir 'Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands' has won PW’s 2022 Graphic Novel Critics Poll.

First of all, I would like to congratulate Kate Beaton on her Eisner win. On Friday night, Beaton became the first woman to independently win for Best Humor Publication. Fresh off of her win ...

Kate Beaton translated her Web comic success with Hark, a Vagrant! into a budding career in children’s books with last year’s The Princess and the Pony.