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Teams: Marvel Comics has released its initial lineups for its X-teams following the events of Schism. What do you think of the new teams? Creators: Kate Beaton will be touring North America in support of her new Hark! A Vagrant collection from Drawn and Quarterly...

Strong Female Characters is a new team of scantily-clad, ultra-violent super-heroines composed of Georgia O'Queefe, Queen Elizatits, and Susan B. Assthony. Created by Kate Beaton, Meredith Gran and Carly Monardo, the ladies poke fun at the way women are frequently depicted in modern adventure comics...

Cartoonist Kate Beaton has created another characteristically hilarious webcomic lampooning the popular treatment of female characters in mainstream American comics. Called Strong Female Characters, the strip is inspired by characters Beaton created in a Twitter-based collaboration/conversation with fellow cartoonists Meredith Gran and Carly Monardo...

Upcoming: Kate Beaton's collected Hark! A Vagrant finally has a cover to official watch out for when it drops in October. TV: AMC's The Walking Dead could be hit with some budget cuts. Do you fear for the show's season two quality? Interviews: Atomic Robo co-creator Brian Clevinger discusses what would have been his take on a new Firestorm series for DC...

Kate Beaton of the illustrious Hark! A Vagrant turns her attention to a certain web-slinger in a series of strips reimagining Peter Parker as Brown Recluse Spider-Man (who does whatever a brown recluse spider can).

While Kate Beaton has focused much of her fan-favorite Hark, A Vagrant! on historical figures and fat ponies, she's also strayed into the world of superheroes numerous times, with Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Wolverine strips on her site and an official Marvel comic of her own in the Strange Tales II anthology...

The Strange Tales II hardcover comes out tomorrow, chock full of superhero stories where your favorite indie creators try their hand at the heroes of the Marvel Universe. To celebrate the occasion, Marvel has graciously given us over 50 exclusive pages of sketches, inks, thumbnails and process images from the anthology series to give you a glimpse into the process of creators like Kate Beaton, Jef

Marvel's Strange Tales anthology returned with its second series last October, winning our hearts yet again by pairing up a long list of indie and webcomic creators like Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship), and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets) for a series of quirky, unconventional stories that take your favorite Marvel superheroes way outside

The life of a cartoonist is much busier than some fans may believe -- too busy to catch television at times. So when Kate Beaton tweeted that she had never seen the popular BBC series Dr. Who, but decided to make a comic about it anyway, die-hard fans of the good doctor held their breath in anticipation, perhaps expecting that their favorite show's pristine image would be tarnished by an outsider

This weekend, Kate Beaton did what Kate Beaton does, which is make awesome comics, but this time, it wasn't Canadian history, classic literature or the adventures of Nancy Drew that inspired her. It was Batman. Specifically, Sexy Batman ...