![]() ![]() So, as you’d expect from that set-up, Ducks has things to say about what capitalism has done to modern society.īut that’s far from all. Lots of people (mostly men) leave their families and work the oil flats because it pays more than anything else for miles and miles around. ![]() On the one hand, Ducks is the story of a young woman attempting to pay off her student debts by doing the one thing that is guaranteed to give her a lot of money very quickly. Now, Ducks is a sizable graphic novel (clocking in at just over 400 pages and running to ever so slightly bigger than regulation hardback size) so answering the question ‘what is Ducks about?’ might take us a couple of paragraphs. What we have here is a graphic memoir about Kate’s time in the first decade of this century working what is called the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. ![]() If you’re only experience of Kate Beaton up to now has been via her light-hearted collections of comics, Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside Pops! or her children’s books, The Princess and the Pony and King Baby, then Ducks may come as some surprise to you. ![]()
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