These landscapes feature intricate linework and shading that capture both the natural beauty of the landscape and the jarring presence of the oil sands operations. However, interspersed across the comic are these beautiful, monochrome landscapes, where Beaton’s artistic skill is most easily seen. Beaton’s characters are dynamic and alive, even if their hands end up being squiggles most of the time.
Every character has a unique face and role that the reader can keep track of, even if the reader is like me and forgets character names all the time. Each change of location includes a character list that introduces the reader to the main cast of that section. Beaton tackles the struggles she faced with uncomfortable honesty and surprising compassion, making this an unconventional biography well worth reading.Īrtistically speaking, Ducks is more akin to a cartoony newspaper comic than a realistic superhero comic.
Her comic tells the story of why she got into the oil business and her experiences working in an isolated, male-dominated community, where workers’ health and safety are less of a priority than not getting sued. Instead, Kate Beaton’s autobiography focuses on her experiences working in the Alberta Oil Sands. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton, has remarkably little to do with actual ducks.
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