Kate Leth


Katrina Jade "Kate" Leth is a Canadian comic book creator, known for works such as Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! and Edward Scissorhands.

Career

Leth lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and attended NSCAD University, studying photography. They dropped out before achieving their degree.
They worked at the Strange Adventures comic shop in Halifax, where they developed an interest in comics, and created promotional art for the shop. In 2010, they created their webcomic Kate or Die for their blog. Kate or Die eventually became a bi-weekly column on Comics Alliance. They cited fellow Nova Scotia writer Kate Beaton as an influence, "...this person who was putting all this stuff out there, and no real formal art school training, but was doing really well with her work." Leth also contributed to the webcomics Locke & Key, and Luther Strode.
Leth's Adventure Time fan art on their Tumblr page attracted the attention of BOOM! Studios, publishers of the comic based on the television show. They were hired to do covers, a short story, and a graphic novel, Adventure Time: Seeing Red, which entered The New York Times Best Seller list.
Leth organized The Valkyries, a group of women who work in comics retail, which was disbanded in 2018.
In 2015, Leth modeled for the We Love Fine Spider-Gwen fashion line, wrote another comic for Boom!, Power Up, and wrote six issues of Vampirella for Dynamite Entertainment.
Leth was co-host for Less Than Live with Kate or Die, a bi-weekly comics podcast which last aired in 2016. Leth collaborated with the podcast Welcome to Night Vale and wrote stories for the Lumberjanes comic for Boom!. For Marvel they wrote Secret Wars, Too a comedic anthology, and Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!, for 17 issues.
In 2018, they wrote episodes of the television shows ', ', Equestria Girls, Craig of the Creek and the fourth season of Bravest Warriors. In 2020, they announced they had signed a deal with Simon and Schuster to produce a graphic novel for release in 2022.
In 2018, Lumberjanes, the comic to which Leth contributed along with 5 other creators, was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.

Personal life

Leth has lived in Burbank, California since January 2016. While in college, they and colleague Vincenzo Ravina created a website dedicated to their hatred of the Crocs shoes. They are openly bisexual and came out as non-binary, asking for they/them pronouns.
In September 2019, Leth announced via Twitter they were engaged to longtime partner Cohen Edenfield.
In June 2020, Leth has accused comic book writer/artist Cameron Stewart of sexual misconduct when they were 19.

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