Homegrown cartoonist Kate Beaton gets around

A Nova Scotia-born cartoonists work swept across the country Thursday when it popped up as the daily Google Doodle.

Its totally cool. Its something everyone sees, artist Kate Beaton said in a telephone interview Thursday evening.

The worlds most popular search engine contacted her earlier this fall about doing a drawing for their daily doodle for Canada, Beaton said.

The nicest thing is that Im the one they thought of.

She describes her work as a mixed bag featuring history jokes, literary jokes and pop culture.

Google had wanted to do something to celebrate a woman in Canadian history.

Initially, they thought of using the image of suffragette Nellie McClung, but she was eventually ruled out because of her controversial support of eugenics.

Its important to take the bad with the good when you are celebrating people, Beaton said.

However, they settled on well-known female rights advocate Henrietta Edwards.

In Beatons drawing, Edwards is dressed in period clothing leading a group of marching women and carrying a banner that proclaims womens rights as townspeople look on in surprise and consternation.

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Homegrown cartoonist Kate Beaton gets around

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