Author
Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton is a Canadian cartoonist from Unama’ki–Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She graduated from Mount Allison University in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in history and anthropology and began her career with the historical webcomic Hark! A Vagrant, which ran from 2007 to 2018.
Beaton is the author and illustrator of the picture books The Princess and the Pony, King Baby, and Shark Girl, as well as the comics collections Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops and the graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. She has received multiple Eisner, Doug Wright, Harvey, and Ignatz awards for her work.
