# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kate-beaton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:41:05.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kate-beaton"
name: "Kate Beaton"
slug: "kate-beaton"
description: "Kathryn Moira Beaton is a Canadian comics artist who created the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other works include the children's books The Princess and the Pony (2015) and King Baby (2016), and the memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022). Publishers Weekly named Ducks one of their top ten books of the year. In 2022, The Princess and the Pony was adapted into the Apple TV+ series Pinecone & Pony, on which Beaton worked as an executive producer."
tagline: "Canadian comics artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KateBeatonJune2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1983-09-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.66
  momentum:             0.3630363036303632
  historical:           11.21246133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/beatonna"
    handle:    "beatonna"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kate.beaton/"
    handle:    "kate.beaton"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/katebeatoncartoonist"
    handle:    "katebeatoncartoonist"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5345222/"
    handle:    "nm5345222"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.harkavagrant.com"
sources:
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    title: "کیٹ بیٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Beaton"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6375363"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2716427"
    title: "Kate Beaton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump