The new book, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, is about the latter. It's from Kate Beaton, author of the popular webcomic Hark! A Vagrant, as well as a number of children's books. But while her ...

Buried in the center of Kate Beaton's massive graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a terse, yet surprisingly apt, thesis statement. Fittingly, considering that this is a book about ...

Kate Beaton headed to the tar sand fields of Alberta saddled with loans and in need of cash. She found a job — and the book she “was always going to make.” Kate Beaton in her home office ...

Kate Beaton is a Canadian comics artist. 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.

The Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton is a master of liminal spaces. Her drawings are accomplished and often beautiful, but her work is distinguished above all by the quality of attention she brings ...

A new college graduate strapped with debt, graphic novelist Kate Beaton headed for a well-paying job in the far-flung oil fields of Alberta. There the Cape Breton native discovered an alien ...

Fossil Fuels Q&A: Kate Beaton Describes the Toll Taken by Alberta’s Oil Sands on Wildlife and the Workers Who Mine the Viscous Crude The title of her graphic memoir, “Ducks: Two Years in the ...

Kate Beaton depicts the experience of being far outnumbered by men in her powerful new graphic memoir, “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,” which finds her younger self, Katie, dealing with ...

But at the same time, there were other problems in the oil sands — human ones — that escaped media attention, according to Kate Beaton, the author of the upcoming graphic novel Ducks ...

Kate Beaton's new graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, focuses on her time working at the oil sands of Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada. There are jobs you take because you might ...