![]() ![]() For a while it was home to various industries – steel, coal, fishing. It's a beautiful place that's long been economically disadvantaged. The book starts over on the east coast, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, where Beaton is from. "I lived in the camps, and that was hard. "I didn't have a good time there," said Beaton. Specifically the years she spent working at the oil sands of Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada. But while her comic is known for its funny and exuberant takes on historical figures, with Ducks, Beaton uses her talents to examine her own life. It's from Kate Beaton, author of the popular webcomic Hark! A Vagrant, as well as a number of children's books. The new book, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, is about the latter. ![]() And then there are jobs you take for the money. ![]() There are jobs you take because you might find them fulfilling, or they're a stepping stone to a career you see for yourself. 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. ![]()
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