She'd graduated with student debt and got a chance to pay it off early: all she had to do was work for a little while mining oil in Eastern Alberta. Her most recent work, a graphic memoir called Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, takes readers in a different direction.ĭucks follows Kate's life just after college. Hark! A Vagrant helped establish Kate as a significant voice of comic humor online in the aughts. She's the author of the award-winning comics series Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops, which each earned spots on the New York Times bestseller list. Content warning: This conversation with Kate Beaton contains some mentions of sexual harassment and sexual violence. Kate talks to Bullseye about her journey writing this memoir. Kate worked alongside people, mostly men, who were separated from their families, their hometowns and the normal expectations of human behavior. People worked there because they desperately needed a job, for myriad reasons. The oil sands are a world unlike any other, towns and cities created from scratch to forcibly extract resources from the earth. Ducks follows Kate's life just after college. Her most recent work, a graphic memoir called Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, takes readers in a different direction.

Graphic Novelist Kate Beaton : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Kate Beaton is a Canadian comics artist.

Ducks by Kate Beaton