Kasia Babis Explained

Birth Name:Katarzyna Monika Babis
Birth Date:20 December 1992
Birth Place:Lublin, Poland
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Alias:Kiciputek, Kittypat
Notable Works:Maja z Księżyca, Słoń w pokoju, Re: Constitutions
Sortkey:Babis, Kasia

Katarzyna "Kasia" Monika Babis (born 20 December 1992)[1] is a Polish author of comic books, cartoonist, illustrator, painter, author of children's books, YouTuber and political activist.

Career

She has published webcomics in Polish on her blog Kącik Kiciputka since 2012 and in English at Kittypat Daily since 2016, initially using the pseudonyms "Kiciputek"[2] and "Kittypat".[3] [4] Her debut in print was the 2014 comic book Tequila, written by Łukasz Śmigiel, notable for being one of the first successfully crowdfunded Polish comics.[5] In the same year, the first issue of the Rag & Bones comic was published, written by Dominik Szcześniak.[6] She has illustrated books by Katarzyna Berenika Miszczuk and Marta Kisiel-Małecka.[7] She has also illustrated a tie-in book.[8]

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.[9] Since 2017, she has been publishing English-language comics at The Nib.[4] and in 2019 her cartoon was first published by The New Yorker.[10] Her comics often consist of feminist political satire.[11] Between 2017 and 2019 she worked on art for video games at 11 bit studios.[12]

She contributed art[13] to Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison edited by Sarah Mirk,[14] [15] [16] which was named one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2020 by The New York Times,[17] one of the 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA),[18] awarded the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize from the Penn State University Libraries[19] and nominated to the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Anthology.[20]

Since 2019, she worked with Macmillan Publishers illustrating the Re:Constitutions graphic novel written by Beka Feathers.[21] According to Publishers Weekly, "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”)."[22]

Politics

In 2015 she joined the newly founded left-wing political party Razem. She ran in the 2015 Polish parliamentary election on Razem's Lublin candidate list. She received 631 votes.[23] In May 2016 she was elected to Razem's National Council.[24] In September 2016, she organized demonstrations in Lublin against the proposed legislation to ban abortion in Poland, as part of the nationwide Black Protest movement.[25] She left the party in 2018.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokie-obcasy/1,53664,16366918,Katarzyna_Babis__Depresja_to_nie_kwestia_nastroju_.html Katarzyna Babis. Depresja to nie kwestia nastroju, a gwałt to nie komplement
  2. http://bliss.natemat.pl/198535,niedocenieni-komentatorzy-rzeczywistosci-czyli-7-rysownikow-z-facebooka-ktorych-musisz-poznac Komentatorzy rzeczywistości, czyli 7 rysowników, których jeśli wciąż nie znasz, musisz poznać
  3. https://www.themarysue.com/girls-with-dolls/ This Comic About How Girls Actually Play With Dolls Is So Spot-On
  4. https://thenib.com/kasia-babis Kasia Babis
  5. http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.hdl_11089_21936 Młodzież i kultura popularna. Przyczynek do badań świata społecznego komiksu
  6. Ciołkiewicz, Paweł. Artkomiks.pl – Katarzyna Babis
  7. Web site: Katarzyna Babis – Artystki Lublina . 2017-11-25 . 2017-12-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034623/http://artystkilublina.pl/art/katarzyna-babis/ . dead .
  8. https://www.bn.org.pl/download/document/1508483549.pdf Przewodnik Bibliograficzny
  9. Web site: Nagroda Literacka m.st. Warszawy > Katarzyna Babis "Maja z księżyca" . 2017-11-25 . 2018-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181031115025/http://www.kulturalna.warszawa.pl/nagroda-literacka,6,7598.html . dead .
  10. https://kultura.gazeta.pl/kultura/7,114530,24816663,the-new-yorker-opublikowal-ilustracje-polskiej-rysowniczki.html "The New Yorker" opublikował ilustrację polskiej rysowniczki. Kasia Babis się chwali
  11. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/feminism-comic-by-katarzyna-babis_n_4441039 Feminism Comic By Katarzyna Babis Perfectly Explains The Double Standard Women Face
  12. Web site: Katarzyna Babis – gameacademy.pl . 2018-02-10 . 2018-09-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180901084533/http://gameacademy.pl/speaker/katarzyna-babis/ . dead .
  13. News: Acena . TJ . Graphic voices of Guantanamo . 1 July 2021 . Oregon ArtsWatch . August 26, 2020.
  14. News: GUANTANAMO VOICES . 30 June 2021 . . June 12, 2020.
  15. News: Cannon . Frances . Sarah Mirk's GUANTANAMO VOICES . 30 June 2021 . . December 22, 2020.
  16. News: Sarah . Lakshmi . A New Graphic Novel Makes the Stories of Guantánamo Bay Visible . 30 June 2021 . . September 12, 2020.
  17. News: Park . Ed . Chute . Hillary . The Best Graphic Novels of 2020 . 30 June 2021 . . December 9, 2020.,
  18. News: YALSA names 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens . 30 June 2021 . American Library Association . January 6, 2021.
  19. News: Parkin . JK . 'Guantanamo Voices' wins the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize . 1 July 2021 . Smash Pages . May 4, 2021.
  20. https://gizmodo.com/and-your-2021-eisner-nominations-are-1847070825 And Your 2021 Eisner Nominations Are...
  21. Breznican . Anthony . First Look: World Citizen Comics aims to create super-powered activists . 30 June 2021 . . March 12, 2019.
  22. News: RE: Constitutions: Connecting Citizens with the Rules of the Game . 30 June 2021 . . June 10, 2021.
  23. https://parlament2015.pkw.gov.pl/349_wyniki_sejm/12/0/6 PKW – Wybory do Sejmu RP
  24. Web site: Razem – Rada Krajowa . 2017-08-17 . 2019-08-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190822195246/https://partiarazem.pl/rada-krajowa/ . dead .
  25. http://www.kurierlubelski.pl/wiadomosci/lublin/a/czarny-protest-w-lublinie-kilkaset-osob-protestowalo-na-placu-lokietka,10680490/ Czarny Protest w Lublinie. Kilkaset osób protestowało na placu Łokietka – Kurier Lubelski

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