Kate Beaton

We have had many series for her.

Um, and so we thought that it would be nice in sort of giving that early history to juxtapose it with Kate Beaton, who essentially calls a spade a spade.

And we were able to reprint, uh, the whole series she did of essentially Lois going, "You are in my way." And Superman being essentially, uh, a little bit aggressive, a little bit, uh, like, "Don't you want me? Aren't I here? How can I help you?" And she's like, "I'm doing my job.

You're in my way." Um, and so that sets up already with a canonical figure that there was always that tension there for the reporter.

Same thoughts.

And it also incl- so besides Julia Wertz and Lisa Hanawalt, it also included Kate Beaton.

Hello.

And Sarah Glidden.

I really enjoyed reading this novel.

And having read one other, like, big work about working in the oil patch, which is Dux, Kate Beaton, the Canadian graphic novel, I was so thrilled to see a different take also diving into a woman's experience.

I don't know.

Are you familiar with that title? Yeah.

It's character.

It's... visuals it's dialogue there's so much going on in comics there's so much invisible writing and and and and interest going on on the page that you don't have to be a perfect writer or artist and i tell people how many times have you read a comic whether it's spider-man or it's dan klaus or it's or it's you know kate beaton or whatever you like right manga pick up a comic and you're reading it and you look and you go wow that arm looks weird Or, yeah, that animal, that's not a really great drawn dog.

Does it make you throw the comic away? Do you drop it and stop reading and stop liking that person's art? Absolutely not.

You move on.

I would

recommend you read the Kate Beaton comics about how the Canadian Federation formed.

I have read almost every Kate Beaton comic.

I don't

know why.

That's a good trajectory.

Yeah, I mean, you know, I liked Kate Beaton's last work.

I think Dux, I think it was called.

Dux is so good.

So honest and raw and just like...

I got to meet Kate Beaton at comics crossroads Columbus a couple of years ago.

Yeah.

She's such an incredible person.

I love it so much.

It's Meatball, King of the Forest by Kate Beaton, which comes out April 13th of next year.

Kate Beaton, probably most famous for her comic Hark Vagrant, as well as King Baby, which is a kid's picture book.

It's awesome.

And her graphic memoir, Ducks, Two Years in the Oil Sands, which came out a couple years ago.

It's just, it's so silly and good.

Just I laughed and I loved it so much.

That's Meatball King of the Forest by Kate Beaton.

Mm-hmm

... on the internet where you could go and find all a- all about Kate Beaton's work.

Mm-hmm.

And you'd go to Kate Beaton's blog and there'd be a list of links, and you'd be like, "Oh, I'm gonna check out this, I'm gonna check out this." And then you'd, you, you would spider out and you'd understand all these, like, connecting roads into different places.

Mm-hmm.

I really loved that.