Kate Beaton was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,
Canada. After graduating from Mount Allison University with a
double degree in History and Anthropology, she moved to Alberta in
search of work that would allow her to pay down her student loans.
During the years she spent out West, Beaton began creating
webcomics under the name Hark! A Vagrant, quickly drawing a
substantial following around the world.
The collections of her landmark strip Hark! A Vagrant and Step
Aside, Pops each spent several months on the New York Times graphic
novel bestseller list, as well as appearing on best of the year
lists from Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR Books, and
winning the Eisner, Ignatz, Harvey, and Doug Wright Awards. She has
also published the picture books King Baby and The Princess and the
Pony.
Beaton lives in Cape Breton with her family.
“...Hilarious and hyper-literate.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Beaton's work is in a class all its own.” —Bust
“Step Aside, Pops, reminds us why it’s been a blessing that Beaton
has enjoyed the free-range evolution of an auteur.” —Washington
Post
"Step Aside, Pops: a new Hark! A Vagrant collection that delights
and dazzles.” —Boing Boing
“The range and singular wit of her brilliant historical, literary
and pop-culture parodies is simply impossible to capture in just a
few words.”—The Guardian
"From Julius Caesar to The Secret Garden and from the late
Romantics to Kokoro, Beaton knocks it out of the park, having a go
at anything and everything with her razor-sharp wit."-Publishers
Weekly Starred Review
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