Kate Beaton

We've featured Kate Beaton's "Hark! A Vagrant" blog/Webcomic here at CA plenty of times in the past, but reading one of her most recent comics may be the first time I've personally felt sliced and diced by her rapier wit. My personal intellectual injury aside, the strip deserves to be read...

The Best of 2009 continues, with our favorite webcomic print collection of the year: "Never Learn Anything from History," by Kate Beaton. Until you have found yourself standing among a mass of people jamming up a pedestrian artery eight feet wide, with women clutching sketchbooks and talking excitedly about whether they're going to pay good money for a drawing of Oliver Cromwell or Nebu

If you fond of Commander Riker from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," it is likely you will enjoy "Number One," a Tumblr devoted exclusively to images of William T. While it looks like it started out as an archive of screenshots, more recently it's been featuring "guest Rikers" from webcomic artists like Kate Beaton ("Hark...

Webcomictress Kate Beaton -- who just got new web hosting, for those concerned -- has some important advice for would-be lady superheroes: "Don't settle for being a t-ts and t-ts heroine ladies, be yourself!" To that end, she has envisioned Woman Woman, the most famous of all lady superheroes, as an irritable chain-smoker who does not want to hear about your stupid cat...

Kate Beaton, who runs the most excellent historical humor webcomic "Hark! A Vagrant," recently lost her webhosting when her ISP decided that she was getting too much traffic, and decided to shut her site down rather than allow her to upgrade...

"New Scientist" magazine just named its top 10 women scientists of all time, including several ladies who have shown up in webcomics. #1 on the list is Marie Curie, a groundbreaking physicist and chemist who discovered radioactivity and received the Nobel Prize in 1903 with her husband Pierre, and sure, she died of radiation exposure but it's all kind of cute when Kate Beaton of "H

Webcomic artist Kate Beaton takes a break from her usual historical subjects like President Garfield and the War of 1812 for a more timely topic: STAR TREK. On SWINGS. P.S. In case you haven't figured it out yet, it's freakin' Star Trek day at ComicsAlliance in honor of the first full day of the movie's release...

-- The first pages are up for 'Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers,' the comic about the pets of superheroes. On your left, frog Thor. -- "GLORIA GAYNOR -- YOUR SONG 'I WILL SURVIVE' HAS TOUCHED THE LONG-DORMANT HEART OF GALACTUS." -- Apparently I can make things happen simply by wanting them enough, as Kate Beaton just announced the book collection of her comics, 'Never Learn Anything From H