1. Also in 2022, Kate Beaton released a memoir in graphic novel form, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, about her experience working in the Alberta oil sands.
11 Facts About Kate Beaton
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Kate Beaton graduated from Mount Allison University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology.
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Kate Beaton began drawing comics for the university newspaper, The Argosy, during her third and fourth years at school.
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In 2007, while still working at the Maritime Museum of BC, Kate Beaton decided to publish some of her history-inspired comics on the Web.
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Kate Beaton has a simple artistic style, with particular attention to detail paid to her characters' facial expressions; her skill at comic pacing has been noted.
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Kate Beaton's work has been profiled in Wired, Maclean's, and Comic Book Resources.
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Kate Beaton's self-published Never Learn Anything from History won the 2009 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent.
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Kate Beaton followed up her 2011 Harvey win by taking home three Harveys in 2012, for Humor, Online Work, and Best Cartoonist.
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Kate Beaton is a former member of Pizza Island, a cartoonist's studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn which was formed by herself and cartoonists Lisa Hanawalt, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, and Julia Wertz.
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In 2014, Kate Beaton uploaded the five-part webcomic Ducks, which presents a more serious and complex story based on Kate Beaton's experiences working at a remote mining site in Canada.
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In September 2022, Kate Beaton released a memoir in graphic novel form called Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, which documented her experience working in the energy extraction industry for Alberta oil sands before she became a cartoonist.