11 Quotes by Kate Beaton

But you can't say no to a birthday present, so she took the little pony to her room, where it ate things it shouldn't have, and farted too much.

Blasted spam pigeons!

Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you’re going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

Nothing funny about happy people. I don’t know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that’s where the most story is. If someone’s happily married for 20 years, that’s great, but it’s not that funny.

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they’re a gateway to the actual thing. They’re like an easy entrance.

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.

But you can’t say no to a birthday present, so she took the little pony to her room, where it ate things it shouldn’t have, and farted too much.

A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.