“It has lived in my mind for a long time. “‘I had this book in mind for many years before I brought it to Drawn and Quarterly, and it took me that many more to create it,” Beaton told Lit Hub.
Since then she’s worked on kids books like King Baby…but the story she tells in Ducks was never far from her mind, she told Lithub:
For young Katie, her wounds may never heal.īeaton gained famed for her hilarious Hark! A Vagrant webcomic, a frothy romp through literature and family relations that hit the bestseller lists and earned her a Beat Comics Industry Person of Year nod in 2011. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet never discussed. It does not hit home until she moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay. Being one of the few women among thousands of men, the culture shock is palpable. Arriving in Fort McMurray, Katie finds work in the lucrative camps owned and operated by the world’s largest oil companies.
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