Tag KateBeaton
Pizza Island Ends, Kate Beaton Steps Back from Regular Updates for ‘Long Term Projects’
Filed under: Indie
The Brooklyn comics studio Pizza Island recently disbanded, with its creators -- Kate Beaton, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, Lisa Hanawalt, Deana Sobel and Julia Wertz -- parting amicably and scattering as fa... [read more]
ComicsAlliance’s 11 Best Comics of 2011, #6-5
Filed under: Opinion As 2011 draws to close, ComicsAlliance has assembled its annual list of the best comics and graphic novels of the year with the help of our editors, writers, and readers. Like any list, it is naturally subjective, but we've packed ... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton’s Wonder Woman Is Incredibly Tired of Stupid People
Filed under: DC, Webcomics
Wonder Woman has had a tough time in the mass media between her failed screenplay by Joss Whedon and her recent failed television pilot, making Kate Beaton's wonderfully sullen take on the character seem more apropos than... [read more]
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Filed under: Webcomics, Culture
What does it take to get your cartoon published in the New Yorker? Box Brown, creator of the webcomics Bellen! and Everything Dies, has been trying to crack the code. Last summer, after Hark! A Vagrant cartoonist Ka... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kraven Goes on the Hunt for a Prom Date with Kate Beaton (But Not WITH Her)
Filed under: Marvel, Indie
The (wonderful) Strange Tales II anthology from Marvel Comics featured a host of indie and webcomic creators writing and drawing superhero stories, including webcartoonist Kate Beaton, who has now posted her complete Krave... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton Talks to Her Younger Self About Comics
Filed under: Indie, Webcomics
Cartoonist Kate Beaton is best known for her Hark! A Vagrant webcomics poking fun at the absurdity of history, and while her style has gotten more refined over the years, some of our earliest favorites were her "younger ... [read more]
‘Nursery Rhyme Comics’ by Kate Beaton, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola and More [Exclusive Preview]
Filed under: Indie, Art
This month, First Second is releasing Nursery Rhyme Comics, a hardcover featuring 50 classic nursery rhymes illustrated by 50 amazing artists. It's a great collection for kids, but as fans of indie comics, we here at Comics... [read more]
Link Ink: New X-Men Teams, DC’s ‘New 52′ Commercials And Hope For ‘Locke & Key’ On TV
Filed under: Link Ink, Culture
Teams: Marvel Comics has released its initial lineups for its X-teams following the events of Schism. What do you think of the new teams? [Marvel]
Creators: Kate Beaton will be touring North America in support of he... [read more]
‘Strong Female Characters’ Inspires Strong Female Fan Art, Animation
Filed under: Webcomics, Humor, Art, Culture
Strong Female Characters is a new team of scantily-clad, ultra-violent super-heroines composed of Georgia O'Queefe, Queen Elizatits, and Susan B. Assthony. Created by Kate Beaton, Meredith Gran and Carly M... [read more]
SEXISM IS OVER: Kate Beaton’s ‘Strong Female Characters’ [Webcomic]
Filed under: Webcomics, Humor, Culture
Cartoonist Kate Beaton has created another characteristically hilarious webcomic lampooning the popular treatment of female characters in mainstream American comics. Called Strong Female Characters, the strip i... [read more]
Link Ink: Collected ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Gets a Cover, Hot Toys Does Harry Osborn and ‘Doctor Who’ Goes Anime
Filed under: Link Ink, Culture
Upcoming: Kate Beaton's collected Hark! A Vagrant finally has a cover to official watch out for when it drops in October. [D&Q]
TV: AMC's The Walking Dead could be hit with some budget cuts. Do you fear for the ... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton’s Brown Recluse Spider-Man
Filed under: Webcomics
Kate Beaton of the illustrious Hark! A Vagrant turns her attention to a certain web-slinger in a series of strip reimagining Peter Parker as Brown Recluse Spider-Man (who does whatever a brown recluse spider can). ... Read mor... [read more]
HeroesCon 2010: The First Day in Photos
Filed under: Conventions, Culture
The first day of HeroesCon 2010 is underway, and ComicsAlliance has been roaming the floors, taking photos. Here's a smattering of what's been going on in Charlotte! The convention floor, from above Kate Beaton displays her [read more]
Kate Beaton’s ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Made Into Motion Comics [Video]
Have you ever looked at your favorite comic and thought, "Hey, I want to see this move, except not really be animation or a movie?" Well, we never have, which is why motion comics mostly mystify us as [read more]
‘Strange Tales II’ Indie Superhero Anthology Returns in October
At today's Mondo Marvel panel at Comic-Con, Marvel announced today that a second volume is on the way for "Strange Tales" -- the anthology of superhero tales written by indie creators. The "Strange Tales II" miniseries begins in [read more]
‘Law and Order’ Lives On in the Art of Cartoonists
Filed under: Television, Art
"Law and Order" tied "Gunsmoke" for the longest-running drama in television history before NBC canceled it earlier this year, but the series' legacy has now been immortalized in artwork, thanks to the unique stylings of creators like Kate Beaton [read more]
Kate Beaton Tells ‘Strange Tales’ About Marvel and Why Her Wonder Woman Is So Pissed Off
Filed under: Indie, Interviews, Webcomics
Since cartoonist Kate Beaton appeared on the webcomics scene in 2007 with her hilarious, history-oriented webcomics, she's become nothing less than a phenomenon, earning nominations for Harvey and Joe Shuster awards, and creating massive lines of [read more]
Kate Beaton’s Fat Pony Makes a TV Cameo on ‘Adventure Time’
Filed under: Webcomics, Animation
Fans of Kate Beaton and her webcomic Hark! A Vagrant are no doubt familiar with the fat Shetland pony, a fan-favorite character who has starred in many of her comics even inspired limited edition sculptures, recently made [read more]
‘Machine of Death’: How Webcomics Creators Hit #1 on Amazon and Took Down Glenn Beck
Filed under: Interviews, Webcomics
Five years ago, Ryan North did an installment of his daily strip, Dinosaur Comics, where T-Rex came up with a premise for a book about a machine that tells people how they're going to die. It was originally intended [read more]