Kate Beaton claims she took a job in the oil fields to pay off her student loans back in the Maritimes.
She spent two years with oil roughnecks.
The result is Ducks, currently the #1 graphic novel on Amazon. Rapturous critics and amazon reviews (all five star) have hailed comics artist Beaton in the New Yorker and culture mags.
_There's a great piece about Beaton, her popular Hark! A Vagrant comic strip and Ducks on the Vulture website
She lives in Cape Breton.
The ducks of the title lived (and died) in a tailing pond near Fort McMurray.
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