![]() Beaton produced shorter works back then, including newspaper-style comic strips, the rare lengthy essay, and brief series on reoccurring themes. Ducks, a stunning look into the complicated and little-known everyday lives of those who work in one of Canada's most controversial businesses, chronicles the author's experience in Northern Alberta.īeaton became well-known during the aughts webcomics boom as a result of the success of her funny cartoons, which satirized Canadian history, popular culture, feminism, and classic literature. "Duck" was published more than ten years after Kate Beaton's first and most successful comic book collection, Hark! Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton, is her first extended graphic autobiography. It tells an unflinching story of the human struggle placed against a country in economic change. ![]() It is the most compelling graphic memoir of 2022 and avoids the distant cynicism that permeates many of her "Vagrant" comics. ![]() ![]() Her debut graphic memoir, "Ducks," by Beaton, is a melancholy masterpiece that depicts a time in her life from 2005 to 2008 before her comics made her famous. ![]()
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