Kate Charlesworth

Kate Charlesworth
Born1950 (age 73–74)
Barnsley, England
Occupation(s)Cartoonist, artist
Years active1973–present
Notable workSally Heathcote: Suffragette
Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide
Websitekatecharlesworth.com

Kate Charlesworth (born 1950) is a British cartoonist and artist who has produced comics and illustrations since the 1970s. Her work has appeared in LGBT publications such as The Pink Paper, Gay News, Strip AIDS, Dyke's Delight, and AARGH, as well as The Guardian, The Independent, and New Internationalist. Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury Publishing) calls her a "notable by-and-for lesbian" cartoonist.[1]

In 2015, her graphic novel Sally Heathcote: Suffragette (with Mary and Bryan Talbot) was included in a list published by The Guardian of the "top 10 books about revolutionaries".[2] Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, her autobiography and history of gay and lesbian culture in England and Scotland from the end of World War II to the present, was published in 2018.[3]

  1. ^ Doty, Alexander; Gove, Ben (1997). Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. p. 95. ISBN 9780304338825.
  2. ^ Mukherjee, Neel (14 January 2015). "Neel Mukherjee's top 10 books about revolutionaries". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  3. ^ Kate Charlesworth (2019). Sensible footwear: a girl's guide. Myriad Editions. ISBN 978-0-9935633-4-8. OCLC 1103990878.