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Who’s Kate?

I’m Kate, that’s who!

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I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I work for what’s been voted several times as the best comic shop in the world, Strange Adventures, and I am a maker of comics! This picture makes me look surlier than I really am.

I have self-published three mini-comics which then came together into the glossy wonder known as Ultimate Kate or Die, which is of course only now a small sampler. Sometimes things become available in my Etsy shop! I was an artist for Womanthology and contributed to Locke and Key, as well as other projects hither and thither such as the Adventure Time spinoff series Marceline and the Scream Queens and Fionna & Cake. I start a lot of things I can’t finish. I drink too much spiced rum.

I am self-taught in comics and have been making them since late 2010. I use Micron and Faber-Castell pens as well as a Pentel brush pen. I’d use Copic if I could afford them. I’m a fan of Canson Bristol paper and cheap, cheap watercolours. I colour digitally with a Bamboo Craft tablet. I like to make lip-synch videos and edit things together to music. I dropped out of art school and look at me now, mom!

Here is a list of stats:

Age: 24
Height: 5’7”
Full Name: Katrina Jade Leth
 Orientation: Queer as heck
Education: Half a BFA
Favourite comics: Chester 5000, Dar, Hark! A Vagrant, Asterios Polyp, Locke and Key, Hawkeye, Saga, Adventure Time
Favourite movies: Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Secretary, Young Frankenstein, Practical Magic
Favourite books: American Gods, The Girl Who Couldn’t Come
Pets: A cat named Leeloo

I do commissions selectively, as I am a busy girl, but feel free to contact me and see!

48 Comments

Found your website today and I absolutely love it! Read all the archives and then bought your book right after. Keep up the excellent work!

You are hot!! :p

Love your comics! Your site is possibly my best find online this year. Shall link it to my blog! Keep up with the amazing work! x

/co was talking about your comics today, and this is the first time I saw it.

I love them so much. Had to sit through and read them all. Fantastic job! Keep up the good work!

I ended up here from a facebook link. Right now my brain still hurts from how much you look EXACTLY LIKE HOW YOU DRAW YOURSELF. I mean, technically that’s not supposed to be a realistic drawing, but it’s actually….SCARILY accurate. How. How do you do that. It’s…driving…me…insane……..Captain’s Log, Stardate 2,650,113….

Hi! a friend of mine linked your comics about bisexuallity and now I’ve read everything on this site. You’re awesome! Your comics are awesome! And I love you!

So, I was rummaging through TopatCo, as I do every once in a blue moon, and I came across Kate…Or Die.
I think I’m immortal from now on, that’s all I’m going to say.
Also, the quitting-school-being-successful pattern seems to be working for a lot of people I know or know of. Makes a girl think :)

Hi Kate, trying to bring my little girl (she’s 5) up in a world that only wants her to be a princess and marry the prince (is it really 2012??).
Her Dad and I are constantly looking for cool female comic characters for her but it’s tough, they are so often just the big-boobed add-ons who only appear in a ratio of about 1:5 to their male counterparts.
Loving World Girl, Jane the Knight, Ruby Gloom – any other suggestions?
I hope she grows up to be as cool as you :-)
ALso love your tweet about little girl in shop ‘this is a shop for boys’. I am constantly countering that kind of thing whereever I see it.
Am going to follow your stuff.
Sacha

I haven’t read any of your comics before I just randomly stumbled across this site and ended up spending all morning reading all of it cuz it was that amazing! I can connect with alot of the things you describe in your comics im really glad i found you tee hee

I was feeling down when I stumbled upon your website. Awesome. I can dig it. I put the cat-eating-tamp comic as my desktop at work. Classy.

Hi Kate, I just finished reading your entire archive and really enjoyed both the your style of “telling the story” as well as the awesome art. I will be studying your art style so I can improve on my own web comic. Also, I know someone who is living some of the same lbgtq issues (she even looks like you too, sort of), so I told her about your web comic. Cheers!

Wow. You are an incredible person. I know you hear it all the time, but it’s worth repeating. You remind me of my wife when she was in her early 20′s. She is doing a damn good job on keeping it going in her early 30′s thou…

I found you while wandering the internet today on a bed-ridden sick day (sniff, sniff). You! Are! Great! Thanks for sharing. Also: Love to hear that Strange Adventures is still going strong, I spent an awful lot of time skulking around there in my misspent teen years :)

Dear Awesome Canadian Artist,
You’re the coolest, and I love your art. I cannot describe how this website has made me feel, but thank you for it :)

Sincerely,
Mediocre American Kid

Your comics are awesome. They are genuine. They are original. They are funny. And most importantly, they are relatable. If I was ever lucky enough to run into you one day I would feel the need to, in the very least, give you an epic high five. Or perhaps a good conversation over a cup of coffee. Keep it up :)

it’s so nice to know i’m not alone in feeling my….
uh feelings and stuff.

<3 thank you for making and sharing these comics.

I absolutely adore your comics, I’ve been seeing them around, and I finally went this website, and I’m glad I did. Also I think you look like Zooey Deschanel, so you’re super pretty! :D I hope you have a great night!

Hey Kate,
I just stumbled across your comics, and I’ve been sorta down recently, and had kinda lost hope in humans. Many of your comics, especially “a long story” are so touching, they really put things into perspective for me. That one specifically reminded me how malleable an identity is. You helped me see that there ARE seemingly normal every day people (just like me) who happen to be extraordinary in reality. What you do inspires me, please never stop.

Sincerely
-an aspiring cartoon artist

P.S. you are ridiculously cute.

P.P.S. Adventure Time is the best thing ever, and when you reference it I grin.

Also, side note, you made me feel how I felt (giddy) when I read the “Scott Pilgrim” Series. Which I haven’t felt in a while, thanks for that.

Aaand now im a follower :D
Its stupendous that are people lie you out there. It make it a safer place to go :3 i hope ill meet someone like you ( or even you!)

I found your site and read ALL of them in one sitting, kinda like how I eat ice cream, but it made me feel awesome and shiny instead of bloated.

I just sat down and read every single one of your comics and looked at your entire blog. I love your work! It’s very inspiring, and I relate to it all too well. You talk about things that need to be discussed, things that people all too often shy away from. I think you’re a very strong person and your work reflects that. I’ve seen your comics floating around Tumblr for the past two years but only until recently was I able to place a name to the artist. Uh…. Your comics are great!!

I saw that “Porn with the volume up” comic on Brock Obama’s Page. You are Awesome, and you should feel awesome! (It’s even more awesome, ’cause you remind me of an awesome friend of mine) ((Awesome extra parenthetical statement!))

Recently I had an epiphany that Marceline would make a pretty damned fine Huntress and decided to expand upon this. My line art just went up at Deviant Art and I thought I would share, since we’re both fans

http://fav.me/d62daqj

Hope you like it :)

Your comics are making me feel so happy and inspired. Got here through one of your makeup tutorials someone posted on Reddit, didn’t expect to find awesome comics AND Adventure Time! Your art is amazing <3

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