Kasia Babis
{{short description|Polish author and cartoonist (born 1992)}}
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| birth_place = Lublin, Poland
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| alias = Kiciputek, Kittypat
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| notable works = Maja z Księżyca, Słoń w pokoju, Re: Constitutions
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Katarzyna "Kasia" Monika Babis (born 20 December 1992)[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] – Wysokie Obcasy 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"[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] – NaTemat.pl and "Kittypat".[https://www.themarysue.com/girls-with-dolls/ This Comic About How Girls Actually Play With Dolls Is So Spot-On] – The Mary Sue[https://thenib.com/kasia-babis Kasia Babis] at The Nib 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.[http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.hdl_11089_21936 Młodzież i kultura popularna. Przyczynek do badań świata społecznego komiksu] – The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. In the same year, the first issue of the Rag & Bones comic was published, written by Dominik Szcześniak.Ciołkiewicz, Paweł. [http://artkomiks.pl/autor/katarzyna-babis?page=1 Artkomiks.pl – Katarzyna Babis] She has illustrated books by Katarzyna Berenika Miszczuk and Marta Kisiel-Małecka.{{Cite web |url=http://artystkilublina.pl/art/katarzyna-babis/ |title=Katarzyna Babis – Artystki Lublina |access-date=2017-11-25 |archive-date=2017-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034623/http://artystkilublina.pl/art/katarzyna-babis/ |url-status=dead }} She has also illustrated a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tie-in book.[https://www.bn.org.pl/download/document/1508483549.pdf Przewodnik Bibliograficzny], Biblioteka Narodowa
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kulturalna.warszawa.pl/nagroda-literacka,6,7598.html |title=Nagroda Literacka m.st. Warszawy > Katarzyna Babis "Maja z księżyca" |access-date=2017-11-25 |archive-date=2018-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031115025/http://www.kulturalna.warszawa.pl/nagroda-literacka,6,7598.html |url-status=dead }} Since 2017, she has been publishing English-language comics at The Nib. and in 2019 her cartoon was first published by The New Yorker.[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] - Gazeta.pl Her comics often consist of feminist political satire.[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/feminism-comic-by-katarzyna-babis_n_4441039 Feminism Comic By Katarzyna Babis Perfectly Explains The Double Standard Women Face] – Huffington Post Between 2017 and 2019 she worked on art for video games at 11 bit studios.{{Cite web |url=http://gameacademy.pl/speaker/katarzyna-babis/ |title=Katarzyna Babis – gameacademy.pl |access-date=2018-02-10 |archive-date=2018-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901084533/http://gameacademy.pl/speaker/katarzyna-babis/ |url-status=dead }}
She contributed art{{cite news |last1=Acena |first1=TJ |title=Graphic voices of Guantanamo |url=https://www.orartswatch.org/graphic-voices-of-guantanamo/ |access-date=1 July 2021 |work=Oregon ArtsWatch |date=August 26, 2020}} to Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison edited by Sarah Mirk,{{cite news |title=GUANTANAMO VOICES |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sarah-mirk/guantanamo-voices/ |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=Kirkus Reviews |date=June 12, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Cannon |first1=Frances |title=Sarah Mirk's GUANTANAMO VOICES |url=https://iowareview.org/blog/sarah-mirks-guantanamo-voices |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=The Iowa Review |date=December 22, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Sarah |first1=Lakshmi |title=A New Graphic Novel Makes the Stories of Guantánamo Bay Visible |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886086/a-new-graphic-novel-makes-the-stories-of-guantanamo-bay-visible |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=KQED |date=September 12, 2020}} which was named one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2020 by The New York Times,{{cite news |last1=Park |first1=Ed |last2=Chute |first2=Hillary |title=The Best Graphic Novels of 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/books/review/best-graphic-novels.html |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=December 9, 2020}}, one of the 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA),{{cite news |title=YALSA names 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens |url=https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2021/01/yalsa-names-2021-great-graphic-novels-teens |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=American Library Association |date=January 6, 2021}} awarded the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize from the Penn State University Libraries{{cite news |last1=Parkin |first1=JK |title='Guantanamo Voices' wins the 2021 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize |url=https://smashpages.net/2021/05/04/guantanamo-voices-wins-the-2021-lynd-ward-graphic-novel-prize/ |access-date=1 July 2021 |work=Smash Pages |date=May 4, 2021}} and nominated to the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Anthology.[https://gizmodo.com/and-your-2021-eisner-nominations-are-1847070825 And Your 2021 Eisner Nominations Are...], Gizmodo
Since 2019, she worked with Macmillan Publishers illustrating the Re:Constitutions graphic novel written by Beka Feathers.{{cite magazine |last1=Breznican |first1=Anthony |title=First Look: World Citizen Comics aims to create super-powered activists |url=https://ew.com/books/2019/03/12/first-look-world-citizen-comics/ |access-date=30 June 2021 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=March 12, 2019}} 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”)."{{cite news |title=RE: Constitutions: Connecting Citizens with the Rules of the Game |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-23543-5 |access-date=30 June 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=June 10, 2021}}
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.[https://parlament2015.pkw.gov.pl/349_wyniki_sejm/12/0/6 PKW – Wybory do Sejmu RP] In May 2016, she was elected to Razem's National Council.{{Cite web |url=http://partiarazem.pl/rada-krajowa/ |title=Razem – Rada Krajowa |access-date=2017-08-17 |archive-date=2019-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822195246/https://partiarazem.pl/rada-krajowa/ |url-status=dead }} 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.[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] She left the party in 2018.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}
Bibliography
- Gwiezdny wojownik. Działko, szlafrok i księżniczka (illustrator, Uroboros, 2014)
- Rag & Bones (illustrator, timof i cisi wspólnicy, 2014)
- Ostatni prezydent. Gawęda o Ryszardzie Kaczorowskim (illustrator, Muzeum Wojska w Białymstoku, 2019)
- Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (co-illustrator, Abrams ComicArts, 2020)
- Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think! (illustrator, First Second, 2023)
- Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland (writer and illustrator, 23rd St., 2025)
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