Kate Beaton

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Kathryn Moira Beaton (born 8 September 1983) is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip ''Hark! A Vagrant'', which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other major works include the children's books ''The Princess and the Pony'' and ''King Baby'', published in 2015 and 2016 respectively. The former was made into an Apple TV+ series called ''Pinecone & Pony'' released in 2022 on which Beaton worked as an executive producer. Also in 2022, Beaton released a memoir in graphic novel form, ''Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands'', about her experience working in the Alberta oil sands. ''Publishers Weekly'' named ''Ducks'' one of their top ten books of the year.