Drawn & Quarterly released her second book, also titled Hark! A Vagrant, in September 2011. Several of her cartoons have been published in The New Yorker. In June 2009, she released a book titled Never Learn Anything from History. 'The Origin of Man', her comic celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, was showcased by MySpace Dark Horse Presents in March 2009. īeaton's work has been profiled in Wired, Maclean's, and Comic Book Resources. Hark! A Vagrant won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic. Beaton has a simple artistic style, with particular attention to detail paid to her characters' facial expressions her skill at comic pacing has also been noted. In several comics, Beaton caricatured herself, past and present.

Its subjects included historical figures, such as James Joyce and Ada Lovelace, or fictional characters from Western literature.

She moved her work from LiveJournal to her new website, also titled Hark! A Vagrant, in May 2008. īeaton published her webcomic, Hark! A Vagrant, from 2007 to 2018. In December of that year, she published the first of two popular batches of history-themed comic strips, whose subjects were ones suggested by at least twenty of her readers. She posted comics to a new website,, and to a LiveJournal blog. In 2007, while still working at the Maritime Museum of BC, Beaton decided to publish some of her history-inspired comics on the Web. Career Īfter graduating from Mount Allison in 2005 Beaton worked at an oil sands mining project in Fort McMurray to pay off her student loans. After college, she worked as an administrative assistant in the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in Victoria. īeaton began drawing comics for the university newspaper, The Argosy, during her third and fourth years at school. She graduated from Mount Allison University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology. She went to a small school for K–12, only having 23 people in her class. Of Scottish descent, Beaton grew up with her three sisters in Mabou on the isle of Cape Breton.

Publishers Weekly named Ducks one of their top ten books of the year. Also in 2022, Beaton released a memoir in graphic novel form, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, about her experience working in the Alberta oil sands. The former was made into an Apple TV+ series called Pinecone & Pony released in 2022 on which Beaton worked as an executive producer.

Her other major works include the children's books The Princess and the Pony and King Baby, published in 20 respectively. Kathryn Moira Beaton (born 8 September 1983) is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, which ran from 2007 to 2018.

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