![]() ![]() I'm new to comics and just started a website for mine, do you have any advice? That's trickier, you should definitely write to my agent with this one. Sure! If you're not making a profit on it and you cite me correctly, why that's just fine!Ĭan I use one of your comics as a basis for this script I'm writing/in my book/my online app/some other enterprise The only thing I know for sure about my degree in History is that I do not regret it for a minute.Ĭan I use one of your comics for this paper I'm writing/class I'm teaching/blog post I am writing? However, that does not mean that you can't, it means you have to work hard for it. I enjoyed the work, but it is not an industry that is easy to move up in. Museums are a cruel mistress of limited opportunity and low pay, and there is usually a government man outside trying to tear them down with a sledgehammer, but we love them so! I was able to get alright museum jobs because I started working in them as a teenager and by the time I graduated university, my resume was already pleasantly stacked. Unfortunately there will be no easy answers there, no one is going to break down your door eager to turn that sweet history knowledge into a paycheque (can you imagine? "I hear you have. I can't give you good advice on what to do, that ball is firmly in your court. It's more a combination of that and what I did on the side during university - edit the comics section for the student paper - that got me here. I find it funny that I get this question so often! I do the least conventional thing possible with a history degree, but yes, I am using mine, I suppose. What should I do with my history degree? Can you tell me about working in museums? Mount Allison produces more Rhodes scholars per capita than anywhere else in North America! I was not one of them. You'd think there would be more Anthropology jokes. ![]() I have a degree in History and Anthropology from Mount Allison University. I think in the end that drawing is best, but sometimes tablet gets the job done when you need to, and there are lots to learn from both ways. In more recent times, I have also used a Wacom tablet, which I started with when I began to make picture books. You can see the tools I use in this blog entry. I use brush pens for lines and I use greyscale markers and sometimes watercolour to shade it. I draw it with pencils and then I use a pen on top, it is terribly simplistic. I wasn't sure where all that was going at first, if that's what you mean, but figuring out what's what is part of the ever present learning curve of making a living online. People do this on tumblr etc and they are just having fun. I'd love for you to carry my plushes or mugs or shirts! Have you seen our wholesale page at Topatoco? That might be what you are looking for! Here it is.ĭo you hate it when people trace your comics? My store in the real world would like to carry some of your items but the cost and the shipping is too much, so now what? Believe me, I've gotten a lot over the years! But I have been sent very interesting ones, and sometimes I ask on twitter for what you'd like to see when it's Idea Time. I'm sad to say I don't take official requests. Will you make a history comic about so-and-so? In the meantime, there is a tumblr and twitter to follow my movements, and an RSS feed so you don't always have to be checking back. This has slowed updates on the site, but hopefully as things ebb and flow, there will be times when it updates like it used to. I work on different things other than the comic at different times. It doesn't have regular schedule, but currently runs whenever I get the chance. If you wish to invite me to be a guest at a festival, speak somewhere, work with you on a project, or interview me, please don't write to me but to my agent: Seth Fishman, sfishman Regrettably, I can't answer every email, but I try my best. Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario for a while to draw pictures, then Halifax, and then New York, and then back to Toronto, and then back once again to rural Nova Scotia. ![]()
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