Kate Beaton

Kate Beaton is a cartoonist from Mabou, Unama'ki-Cape Breton. She is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oilsands, Hark! A Vagrant, Step Aside, Pops, and the picture books The Princess and the Pony and King Baby. She served as executive producer for Pinecone & Pony, an animated series for AppleTV+. Kate's work has won multiple Eisner, Doug Wright, Harvey and Ignatz awards in the field of comics. Ducks recently won Canada Reads 2023, and was chosen as one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022, and landed on best of the year lists from Time, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others.