Katarzyna "Kasia" Monika Babis (born 20 December 1992)
– Wysokie Obcasy is a Polish author of

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, illustrator, painter, author of children's books, YouTuber and political activist.

Career

She has published

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in Polish on her blog ''Kącik Kiciputka'' since 2012 and in English at ''Kittypat Daily'' since 2016, initially using the pseudonyms "Kiciputek" and "Kittypat".Kasia Babis
at

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Her debut in print was the 2014 comic book ''Tequila'', written by Łukasz Śmigiel, notable for being one of the first successfully

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Polish comics. In the same year, the first issue of the ''Rag & Bones'' comic was published, written by Dominik Szcześniak. She has illustrated books by Katarzyna Berenika Miszczuk and Marta Kisiel-Małecka. She has also illustrated a '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' tie-in book. She debuted as a prose writer with the children's book ''Maja z Księżyca'' which she also illustrated, and which was nominated to the City of Warsaw Literary Award. Since 2017, she has been publishing English-language comics at

. and in 2019 her cartoon was first published by ''

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''. Her comics often consist of

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. Between 2017 and 2019 she worked on art for video games at 11 bit studios. She contributed art to ''Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison'' edited by

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, which was named one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2020 by ''

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'', one of the 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens by the

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(YALSA), awarded the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize from the

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and nominated to the 2021

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for Best Anthology. Since 2019, she worked with

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illustrating the ''Re:Constitutions'' graphic novel written by Beka Feathers. According to ''

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'', "this educational comics guidebook to constitutions takes on a commendable international scope", and "Helped along by Babis’s charming if somewhat overly smiley character drawings, the team goes beyond the basics to tackle more substantial examples (such as how Rwanda’s 2003 constitution required 30% of government decision-making bodies to comprise women) and urgent particulars (“the constitution is only as strong as the people who use it”)."

Politics

In 2015 she joined the newly founded left-wing political party

Razem Left Together () is a left-wing political party in Poland. It was formed in 2015 as "Together", and it was one of the eight nationwide committees standing in the 2015 parliamentary election. It was a member of the Progressive International, a ...

. She ran in the

2015 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections to both the Sejm and Senate were held in Poland on 25 October 2015 for the eighth term of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, which ran from 12 November 2015 until 2019. The election was won by the largest opposition par ...

on Razem's

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candidate list. She received 631 votes.PKW – Wybory do Sejmu RP
/ref> In May 2016 she was elected to Razem's National Council. In September 2016, she organized demonstrations in Lublin against the proposed legislation to ban

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, as part of the nationwide Black Protest movement.Czarny Protest w Lublinie. Kilkaset osób protestowało na placu Łokietka – Kurier Lubelski
/ref> She left the party in 2018.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Babis, Katarzyna 1992 births Living people The New Yorker cartoonists Polish comics artists Polish female comics artists Polish webcomic creators Polish children's writers Polish women children's writers Polish children's book illustrators Polish illustrators Polish women illustrators Left Together politicians Polish satirists Polish socialist feminists Video game artists Polish YouTubers