Kate Beaton, the mind that gave us perky revolutionaries and a roly-poly Napoleon, now tells the darker side of her life story: how she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil field.

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands By Kate Beaton Drawn and Quarterly 436 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

Barack Obama posts his "favourite" lists every year, for music, films and books. And this year, the self-confessed fan of Conan and Spider-Man comic books from the seventies and eighties, added a ...

“Luke Pearson, Kate Beaton — they have only worked in this century. I don’t think any of them are over 28.” ...

"Ducks is about part of my time working at a mining site in Fort McMurray, the events are from 2008," wrote Beaton. "It is a complicated place, it is not the same for all, and these are only my ...

Kate Beaton was determined to work her way out of debt. But nothing could have prepared her for the experience of toiling in the Canadian oil sands. This episode is from This is Uncomfortable, a ...

From Kate Beaton (the creator of Hark! A Vagrant) comes a new collection of comics that combines deadpan humor with minimalist style, drawing inspiration from often surprising historical figures.

Find out why "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands" by Kate Beaton is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year.

SPX 2015: Hark! Kate Beaton brilliantly breathes the stuff of life into history's characters with her artfully smart new book, 'Step Aside Pops' ...

When it comes to rendering and sending up historical and literary characters, Kate Beaton is one of the most artful hands around. She manages to do in three panels what some professors can’t do ...

Talking needy sisters, delicate breakups, and a deep dive into guest Kate Beaton’s new graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.