Kate Beaton

Kate Beaton is a Canadian comics artist best known for Hark! A Vagrant, the comic strip that ran from 2007 to 2018. Beaton also wrote the children's books The Princess and the Pony and King Baby, and the memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, which Publishers Weekly named one of its top ten books of the year. The Princess and the Pony was later adapted into the Apple TV+ series Pinecone & Pony, on which Beaton served as an executive producer.