Ducks

About “Ducks”

Arriving in Fort McMurray, Katie finds work in lucrative camps run by the world's largest oil companies, one of few women among thousands of men, and later moves to a spartan, isolated worksite for higher pay, encountering trauma that is never discussed. Beaton draws colossal machinery against an Albertan backdrop of wildlife and the Rocky Mountains, in her first full-length graphic narrative. A 2022 graphic memoir by Kate Beaton.