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Comics artist

Kate Beaton, born on September 8, 1983, is a renowned comic artist from Canada. Known for her humorous style, her work primarily revolves around historical figures and events, which has gained her a wide following.

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“Blasted spam pigeons!”

Humor Humour Pigeons Spam

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“Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.”

Giving Feels Hard Home House Morning Like You Habit Get Up Going To Work Bad Habits

Author:Kate Beaton

“Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.”

People Ifs Knows Years Looks Kind Stories Situation Conflict Married Picks Areas Happy People Happily Married

Author:Kate Beaton

“I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.”

Trying Wells Joy Bits Audience Diverse Obscure Very Popular

Author:Kate Beaton

“Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.”

Knows Writing Firsts Sometimes Happens Wanted Good Writing Rewriting

Author:Kate Beaton

“I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.”

Way Writing Kind Enough Past Reading Behinds Materials Dues Drawing Comic Schedules Writing And Reading Due Time

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“I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.”

Believe Easy Mines Educational Silly Entrances Gateways

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“A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.”

World Way Book Fans Objects Reader Approach Comic Comic Book

Author:Kate Beaton

“Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am.".”

School Artist Animation Animator

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“I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.”

Difficult Creative Be Creative

Author:Kate Beaton

“My job never actually leaves me. I watch people who come home from work at six and they're done, and that seems crazy. Then again, they have to get up at seven and go to work, to a job that maybe they don't really care about, and I get to do something that I care about.”

People Done Home Care Crazy Seven Coming Home I Care Leaving Me

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“I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.”

Made Horse Intelligent Comic

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Born: September 8, 1983
Known for: Comics artist
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