Beaton's success continued with the book Step Aside, Pops, which won the 2016 Eisner Award for best humour publication. The sassy historical webcomic gained a following of 500,000 monthly visitors and was eventually turned into a bestselling book. Kate Beaton is a cartoonist from Nova Scotia who launched her career by publishing the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant online. Kate Beaton's affecting Ducks dives into the lonely life of labour in Alberta's oil sands With the goal of paying off her student loans, Kate leaves her tight-knit seaside Nova Scotia community and heads west, where she encounters harsh realities, including the everyday trauma that no one discusses.ĭucks won Canada Reads 2023, when it was championed by Jeopardy! star Mattea Roach. (Morgan Murray, Drawn & Quarterly)ĭucks is an autobiographical graphic novel that recounts author Kate Beaton's time spent working in the Alberta oil sands. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a book by Kate Beaton.
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