Kate Evans Explained

Birth Name:Kate Evans
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cartoonist:y
Notable Works:Threads from the Refugee Crisis, Red Rosa

Kate Evans (born 1972)[1] is a British cartoonist, 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 DIY activist publication, editing and contributing artwork to several of its annual editions.[2] 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.[3] [4]

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.[5] Evans subsequently authored and illustrated the pregnancy and birth manual Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby.[6]

Red Rosa: a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg,[7] [8] an account of the life and work of revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2016.

Evans returned to comics journalism with the book Threads from the Refugee Crisis, reportage from the Calais Jungle.[9] 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022-05-06. Bump : how to make, grow and birth a baby / Kate Evans.. Wellcome Collection.
  2. Web site: schnews. nowthenmagazine.com. 2 August 2017.
  3. Web site: 2022-05-06. Squall Magazine - Necessity breeds ingenuity!. Squall Magazine.
  4. Web site: 2022-05-06. Reviews. 5 November 1998. New Internationalist.
  5. News: Kate. Evans. The case for breastfeeding is clear. 5 July 2010. 2 August 2017. The Guardian.
  6. Web site: 2022-05-06. Bump: How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby. 19 January 2017. The Natural Parent Magazine.
  7. Web site: The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg. The Nation. 2 August 2017. 20 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171020015854/https://www.thenation.com/article/the-radical-life-of-rosa-luxemburg/. dead.
  8. Web site: Red Rosa: a Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop . Londonreviewbookshop.co.uk. 2 August 2017.
  9. Web site: 2022-05-06. Cartoonist Kate Evans draws on experiences as a refugee camp volunteer for graphic novel. Vancouver Sun.
  10. Web site: 2022-05-06. Paul Kingsnorth's top 10 dissenting books. 28 April 2003. The Guardian.
  11. Web site: Cassie. Werber. 2022-05-06. The only baby book I'm reading while pregnant is this blissfully simple cartoon. Quartz (publication).
  12. Web site: 2022-05-06. I ain't your princess. 27 December 2018. Morning Star (British newspaper).

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