Kate Evans
cartoonkate.bsky.social
Kate Evans
@cartoonkate.bsky.social
Cartoonist, artist, author, activist
Forthcoming cartoon for New Internationalist Magazine @newint.bsky.social sums up New Labour #refugeeswelcome
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Next up, Bristol! I will be bringing myself, a silly cloak, my wit, wisdom and inexhaustible fount of #JaneAusten knowledge, and a 35 foot tapestry to Bookhaus, Bristol. See you next Tuesday? www.bookhausbristol.com/events/
Bookhaus Bristol – Author Talks, Readings & More
Discover upcoming events at Bookhaus Bristol, including author talks, book readings, and literary discussions.
www.bookhausbristol.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Patchwork is LAUNCHED! Here's an exclusive look at the tapestry I unveiled at The Cartoon Museum. It was epic! #janeausten #graphicbiography
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hey, this EXCELLENT review of #Patchwork my #JaneAusten #GraphicBiography just hit every public radio website in the States. Chuffed! www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
'Patchwork' pieces together Jane Austen's personal life
While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such artistry is the heart and strength of Kate Evans' delightful and illuminating w...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I scarcely have the words to express my admiration for @cartoonkate.bsky.social 's book Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen. It's a true masterpiece, astonishing in both concept and execution, funny, sharp, moving, beautiful. Austen would have loved it. share.google/XEcT3gIgILHI...
Patchwork
In her later years, Jane Austen made a patch­work quilt. She folded thousands of tiny scraps of fabric over diamond-shaped slips of paper and painstakingly stitched them together. Kate Evans employs t...
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October 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Patchwork, a graphic biography of #JaneAusten launches on Tuesday 28th. Come to the Cartoon Museum for an exclusive premiere. It's going to be epic! @cartoonmuseum.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Come to my book launch! Tuesday night at 6.30, the Cartoon Museum, Soho
www.cartoonmuseum.org/whats-on-eve...
October 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I won't be able to make it to this excellent panel discussion with @karriefransman.bsky.social @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social and my boy Rik, but some of my art will be part of the exhibition alongsides greats like @nsousanis.bsky.social @kaysohini.bsky.social @cartoonkate.bsky.social !
If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.

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Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable & Exhibition Launch
An exploration of comics, research and creative practice. Part of Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...
Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
#JaneAustenFestival goers. Check out my exclusive sneak peek at my graphic biography, free with late night opening to Beckford's Tower this Thursday! www.tickettailor.com/events/bathp...
Buy tickets – After Hours; Premiere of Kate Evans' graphic novel 'Patchwork' - a pictorial story of Jane Austen – Beckford’s Tower & Museum
After Hours; Premiere of Kate Evans' graphic novel 'Patchwork' - a pictorial story of Jane Austen – Beckford’s Tower & Museum, Thu 18 Sep 2025 - In the later years of her life, Jane Austen created a q...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ooh! Patchwork is on pre-order 25%off offer from Waterstones until the end of the month. Don't forget to use the code SUMMER25 at the checkout! #JaneAusten #graphicbiography www.waterstones.com/book/patchwo...
Patchwork by Kate Evans | Waterstones
Buy Patchwork by Kate Evans from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Meet Kate Evans - author of eight graphics titles, including Red Rosa: a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg and Threads from the Refugee Crisis, as well as ground-breaking books on pregnancy and birth. She is currently working on Patchwork, a biography of Jane Austen.
April 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Judge Jamee Comans:
“There is no indication that Congress contemplated an immigration judge or even the attorney general overruling the secretary of state on matters of foreign policy,”
There go your checks and balances #MahmoudKhalil
April 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Jane Austen with a very apposite quote
February 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This Treasury letter does not contradict reporting by WIRED & TPM. It says "Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause" have read-only access, and "all operational processes" are conducted by Treasury staff.

That doesn't deny DOGE has admin and altered code.

home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
February 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#JaneAusten and Cassandra discuss their marriage options. Text from The Watsons.
#graphicbiography
February 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.

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Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
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February 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency
We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...
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February 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Jane Austen with some very relatable feels. I have just drawn this page for my forthcoming #graphicbiography #JaneAusten #actuallyautistic
February 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I joined protestors outside the RCJ today because our politicians continue not only to ignore the evidence of climate breakdown , but accelerate our species collapse with this obsession over growth above all else .

No growth on a dead planet , solidarity with the #LordWalney16
January 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Write to your MP to support the ‘Lord Walney 16’ and the ongoing mass appeal outside the Royal Courts of Justice.

Guide and letter template here:
https:/xrb.link/Je85Bo

#DefendurJuries #ProtestlsARight #FreePoliticalPrisoners
#LordWalney16
January 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Drew a cliff-hanger of a page yesterday in my #JaneAusten #graphicbiography. What will happen to Aunt Leigh-Perrot? (Clue: she is rich and posh)
January 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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January 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM