Kate Evans (born 1972) is a British
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
, non-fiction author and graphic novelist.
Biography
Kate Evans was born in
Montreal, Canada, and raised in Surrey, England. She studied English literature at the
University of Sussex in Brighton where she became involved in political opposition to the
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Here she became associated with the ''
SchNEWS
''SchNEWS'' was a free weekly publication from Brighton, England, which ran from November 1994 until September 2014. The main focus was environmental and social issues/struggles in the UK – but also internationally – with an emphasis on di ...
'' DIY activist publication, editing and contributing artwork to several of its annual editions. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to
environmental activism, providing cartoon reportage from a
tree house on the route of the
Newbury Bypass for ''
The Guardian'' newspaper. In 1998, Evans wrote, illustrated and published her account as ''Copse: the Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting''.
Since 2000, Evans has produced a series of non-fiction graphic works on a variety of social and political topics. ''The Food of Love: your formula for successful breastfeeding'' has popularised
attachment parenting techniques. Evans subsequently authored and illustrated the pregnancy and birth manual ''Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby''.
''Red Rosa: a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg,'' an account of the life and work of revolutionary socialist
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...
was shortlisted for the
Bread and Roses Award
The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing is a British literary award presented for the best radical book published each year, with ''radical book'' defined as one that is "informed by socialist, anarchist, environmental, feminist and anti-r ...
2016.
Evans returned to comics journalism with the book ''Threads from the Refugee Crisis,'' reportage from the
Calais Jungle. ''Threads from the Refugee Crisis'' was awarded the John C. Laurence Award from the
Society of Authors in 2016 and won the Broken Frontier Award for Graphic Non Fiction 2017. In 2018 it became the first graphic novel to be nominated for the
Orwell Prize for Books.
Evans lives in
Somerset, UK, with her spouse and two children.
Publications
* ''Copse: the Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting''. Self-published, 1998. . With photographs by Adrian Arbib,
Gideon Mendel
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Mendel has a ...
, and Andrew Testa.
* ''Funny Weather: Everything you Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out''. Brighton:
Myriad
A myriad (from Ancient Greek grc, μυριάς, translit=myrias, label=none) is technically the number 10,000 (ten thousand); in that sense, the term is used in English almost exclusively for literal translations from Greek, Latin or Sinospher ...
, 2006. . With an introduction by
George Monbiot.
**''Weird Weather''.
Groundwood
House of Anansi Press is a Canadian publishing company, founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and Dave Godfrey. The company specializes in finding and developing new Canadian writers of literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
History
Anans ...
, 2007. Canada and USA edition. . With an introduction by Monbiot.
**''Il clima furioso. Tutto quello che dovete sapere sui cambiamenti climatici''. Italy: LIT - Libri in Tasca, 2013. .
* ''The Food of Love: your formula for successful breastfeeding''. Brighton: Myriad, 2009. .
* ''Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby''. Brighton: Myriad, 2014. .
* ''Red Rosa: a Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg''.
Verso, 2015. .
* ''Threads from the Refugee Crisis''. Verso, 2017. .
* ''Don't Call Me Princess!''.
New Internationalist, 2018. .
References
External links
*
An excerpt from ''Threads''at ''The Guardian''
"Kate Evans on Doomed Revolutionary and Political Dynamo 'Red' Rosa"at ''Vice''
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British women cartoonists
Artists from Montreal
Writers from Montreal
British graphic novelists
20th-century British women artists
20th-century British women writers
Alumni of the University of Sussex
1972 births
Living people