Kate Beaton's autobiographical graphic novel Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is heavy, viscous stuff; Beaton heads from Nova Scotia to Alberta to make some money and pay off her student loans, but working in the man's world of the oil sands, she experiences environmental devastation, loneliness, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual harassment and rape, and numerous existential crises-- all amplified by the insular nature of the oil camps-- highly recommended but not as fun as the last graphic novel I read.
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Beaton’s web comic “Hark! a Vagrant” is awesome as well. She stopped publishing it in 2018 but the archive is worth a perusal. Here is one example.
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=316
that's awesome-- i wonder if that's published as a book too . . .
yup . . . i will get it
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