![]() Peter MacInnis is a teacher, a farmer, a fisherman and a musician. Kate Beaton has been traveling on her book tour with a friend from back home. We spoke at the 2022 Portland Book Festival. Her book about that time is a brutally honest exploration of class, migration, misogyny, and the culture of her homeland, the island of Cape Breton on the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. She went there to pay off her student loans. It’s a deeply personal graphic memoir called “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.” It’s about the time she spent working in the oil industry in Alberta, Canada in the mid 2000s. She gained an international following for “Hark, a Vagrant,” a quirky, satirical, historically informed comic strip. We’re going to bring you an hour today with the writer Kate Beaton. ![]() Note: This transcript was computer generated and edited by a volunteer.ĭave Miller : This is Think Out Loud on OPB. The book is a brutally honest exploration of class, migration, misogyny, and the culture of her homeland: the island of Cape Breton, in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. It is a deeply personal graphic memoir called “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands” about the time she spent working in the oil industry in Alberta, Canada, in the mid-2000s. ![]() Beaton’s newest book takes a very different turn. ![]() Kate Beaton gained an international following for “Hark, a Vagrant,” a quirky, satirical, historically informed comic strip. ![]()
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