
Most recently, she's written an award-winning children's book, The Princess and the Ponyand legendary director Guillermo del Toro was so impressed he invited her to an advance screening of Crimson Peak. She's been profiled in the Paris Review, Salon, People, on NPR, and made TIME's top fiction list in 2011. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, in Marvel superhero comics, on the animated show Adventure Time, posters for the Criterion Collection, and as a Google Doodle of Canadian suffragette Henrietta Edwards. Her webcomic, Hark! A Vagrant-which riffs on history and literature from Kierkegaard and Peter Mansbridge to Henry VIII and The Great Gatsby-has been collected in three books. You can understand why Beaton, 32, might feel the teensiest bit of pressure to keep the momentum. I never work fast enough, and I feel like I should be producing faster, and it's never good enough." "A lot of people who do what I do are stressed out and anxious a lot of the time," says cartoonist Kate Beaton.
