Beaton also considers how her years in the oil sands affected her own creativity. Her memoir is an intricate tapestry of complex topics: economic injustice, the fragility of the social contract, white entitlement and indigenous dispossession, environmental crisis and, centrally, sexual harassment and rape. She tells how, desperate to pay off college loans, she spent two years in her 20s working in the oil fields of Alberta. Ducks isn't just different from her previous work, it's the opposite: grim, even dour. Kate Beaton is best known for the quirky historical humor of Hark! A Vagrant, a webcomic that became two bestselling books. Read on – and prepare to be intrigued! Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands The comics renaissance continues this season with all sorts of great graphic novels in every genre imaginable.įrom gory fantasy to sobering slices of life, racial commentary to socioeconomic analysis, these five titles reflect the astonishing diversity of comics publishing today.
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