The idea of family and leaving a place you love is a big theme in the book, as Beaton has to go west and eventually, some of her family joins her, but she’s always looking to get back (considering she now lives on Cape Breton, she did a good job). She lives on Cape Breton Island, which is part of Nova Scotia, but as she points out early in the book, there’s not a lot of work there, even though everyone who lives there loves it. Her parents seem vaguely disappointed by her choice to study art, but such is life. Drawn & Quarterly has published this, and I’m going to write about it!īeaton was in Alberta between 20, and at the beginning of the book, she is 21 and needs to pay off her student loans. Kate Beaton might be known for her extremely funny historical comics, but now she’s given us Ducks, an account of her years spent working in northern Alberta in the oil sands industry, which she did to pay off her student loans in the mid-2000s. “The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine”
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