Kate Charlesworth's 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.
17 Facts About Kate Charlesworth
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Kate Charlesworth's parents ran a local corner shop during her childhood.
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Kate Charlesworth attended Wombwell High School in Barnsley and attended Manchester College of Art and Design to study graphics and stage design from 1968 to 1973.
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Kate Charlesworth has produced science comics for New Scientist and The Independent, as well as illustrations for several books published by the National Museums of Scotland.
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Kate Charlesworth describes her art style as not overly cartoonish or caricature, but emotionally realistic.
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Kate Charlesworth illustrated Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary Talbot, published in 2014.
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Kate Charlesworth spent four years working on her autobiographical work Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide, which was published in 2019.
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Kate Charlesworth has worked as a storyboard artist for shows including Bob the Builder, Pingu, and Timmy Time.
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Kate Charlesworth has created several cards for Cath Tate Cards, run by fellow cartoonist and friend Cath Tate.
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Kate Charlesworth created the CD cover for Fast Talk Archived 29 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine by Kay Grant and Alex Ward.
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Kate Charlesworth produces various forms of 3-D art, including birthday cards, maps, board games, and shadow boxes, featured on her website.
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Kate Charlesworth is a lesbian and has stated that she embraced her identity as a dyke in college when she entered a relationship.
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Kate Charlesworth has opined that she feels the lesbian community of the time heavily self-policed behavior and look, which prevented her from fully realizing her identity and influenced much of her work.
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Kate Charlesworth has been politically active in British and Scottish politics and pushes for equal rights.
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When Clause 28 of the Local Government Act was being pushed in 1988, aiming to ban the promotion of and education about homosexuality by local authorities, including schools, Kate Charlesworth teamed up with Viv Quillin, Cath Jackson, and Cath Tate, three other local cartoonists, to produce a series of postcards to campaign against it.
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Kate Charlesworth has been involved in many efforts to increase awareness of LGBT history.
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Kate Charlesworth participates in Edinburgh's Loud and Proud choir, which sang at Equal Marriage lobbies of the Scottish Parliament.