Kate Beaton

Kathryn Moira Beaton 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, and Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, published in 2022. Publishers Weekly named Ducks one of their top ten books of the year. Also in 2022, The Princess and the Pony was made into an Apple TV+ series called Pinecone & Pony, on which Beaton worked as an executive producer.