Her humorous comics now extend into animation: Pinecone and Pony, an animated series based on her 2015 children’s book, The Princess and the Pony, the story of a would-be warrior princess and her flatulent pony, is currently streaming on Apple+.īut her new book Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, published this month by Drawn & Quarterly, is anything but lighthearted comedy. As part of the famed Brooklyn all-female Pizza Island studio, Beaton paved the way for a generation of Instagram cartoonists. Cartoonist Kate Beaton made a name for herself with laughter-droll comics that eviscerated historical figures and such literary icons as Edgar Allen Poe and Nancy Drew comics that originally ran on LiveJournal and led to two bestselling book collections, Hark! a Vagrant (2011) and Step Aside, Pops (2015).
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