![]() Now it’s a full memoir, and it’s spectacular. In 2014, Beaton released a five-part comic as a first go at telling her oilsands story. “Ducks are migratory animals that get stuck when they land in the oil - the metaphor is easy,” says cartoonist Kate Beaton about the title of her new graphic novel memoir. Hark! A Vagrant eventually became two bestselling collections. Scribbling about the sex life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was a way for her to remember who she was, or at least who she wanted to be. Born and raised on Cape Breton Island, Beaton honed her joke-telling skills under serious circumstances: in her early 20s, she joined generations of Maritimers and left home to pay the bills, in her case student loans.īeaton spent two years in worker camps in the Alberta oilsands, which she experienced as lonely places where everyone is homesick and women are seriously outnumbered. Kate Beaton hit the comic scene with Hark! A Vagrant, a mid-aughts web strip that combined a love of history with an absurdist sense of humour. ![]()
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