![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first full length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people. In Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Beaton includes these tragedies to highlight an often-ignored part of Alberta’s oil industry: the lived experiences of its workers. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.īeaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Author), Kate Beaton (Artist) (557) 14.99 An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland they love so much. This memoir of the Cape Breton-born Beaton’s experiences working in the Alberta oil fields is her first extended work of non-fiction & garnered immediate, widespread critical praise. Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. RT seqscholars: Ducks: Two Years in the Oilsands by Kate Beaton was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2022. ![]()
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