![]() In 2014, Beaton uploaded the five-part webcomic Ducks, which presents a more serious and complex story based on Beaton's experiences working at a remote mining site in Canada. īeaton has contributed to Marvel Comics' Strange Tales anthology. ![]() She is a former member of Pizza Island, a cartoonist's studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn which was formed by herself and cartoonists Lisa Hanawalt, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, and Julia Wertz. Beaton followed up her 2011 Harvey win by taking home three Harveys in 2012, for Humor, Online Work, and Best Cartoonist. Hark! A Vagrant won the 2011 Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work, having been nominated the previous year, and was also nominated for Joe Shuster Awards in 20. Time magazine named it one of the top ten fiction books of the year, with Lev Grossman calling it "the wittiest book of the year." īeaton's self-published Never Learn Anything from History won the 2009 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. 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. All were drawn by Beaton using MS Paint during her breaks at work. 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. ![]()
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