Kate Beaton, on loss and home

February 3, 2022 11:07 AM

"I wish I knew him better. But he was just a boy when I left." Originally posted here.

There are several comments on the original post expressing a desire to see Beaton attempt longer works in this vein; those commenters will be glad to hear about this.

posted by Ipsifendus (7 comments total)

The last link is bad; it probably had something to do with the Kate Beaton's new book later this year.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 11:15 AM on February 3, 2022 [2 favorites]

Argh, yes, that's what I'd intended to link to.
posted by Ipsifendus at 11:21 AM on February 3, 2022

She's still so good. Hark A Vagrant is/was amazing but her personal work is fantastic as well. Every so often she posts a comic on her Twitter about her own children or her parents or Alberta and they go right to the core. She's got a way of capturing a specific moment or feeling so deftly, it just hollows you out (in a good way).
posted by fight or flight at 11:25 AM on February 3, 2022 [4 favorites]

Kate is posting new material semi-regularly on her Patreon, much of it in the same autobiographical vein - four-panel comics about her children and wider family, and some longer form stuff about her past growing up in Cape Breton (and what it means to return). The minimum pledge - which gets you everything, there’s no higher reward tiers - is $1 a month and it’s thoroughly worthwhile.
posted by parm at 11:27 AM on February 3, 2022 [8 favorites]

Yes, if you liked her Twitter comics over the years it's very worth subscribing to her $1 patreon. She basically just wanted a slightly less public place to publish autobio comics than twitter and what she's been doing has been great.
posted by Tesseractive at 12:33 PM on February 3, 2022 [3 favorites]

Her postings about her sister's funeral are incredibly moving, too
posted by scruss at 2:34 PM on February 3, 2022 [1 favorite]

Well shoot. Tearing up a bit. Glad. Thanks Kate.
posted by aspersioncast at 10:14 PM on February 3, 2022