Kate talks to Bullseye about her journey writing this memoir.Canadian comic books have come into their own. Ducks is about violence against both people and the land, but it's also about real human beings in a lonely, liminal place - just trying to find a way through the world. It's a collection of smaller stories about her experience, expertly woven together. But Ducks isn't centered around this story. In this dangerous and desperate world she both witnessed and experienced sexual harassment and sexual violence, and she doesn't shy away from telling her story exactly as it happened. 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. 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.

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.

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