6/1/2023 0 Comments Kate beaton ducks review![]() ![]() Why not? She’d just graduated from college and knew there was little opportunity in her tiny Nova Scotia town. At twenty-two, she traveled across Canada for a job in the Alberta oil sands. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a graphic memoir about two of the most traumatic years of Beaton’s life. Seven years after the publication of Step Aside, Pops, Beaton has returned with a marked change in tone. I told my friends, “When I get a coffee table, this’ll be my coffee table book!” ![]() I read it late at night, feeling delighted and understood I was sixteen and pretentious enough to crack up over illustrated parodies of people like Byron and Shelley. I obsessed over Step Aside, Pops for the rest of my adolescence. It was a collection of short, witty comics about literature, history, and feminism, a follow-up to the best-selling 2011 collection Hark! A Vagrant, which began as a webcomic Beaton created while studying history and anthropology in college. YEARS AGO, MY parents gave me Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton for Christmas. ![]()
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