Kate Beaton
Autor(a) de Hark! A Vagrant
About the Author
Image credit: Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo 2011, photo by 5of7
Séries
Obras por Kate Beaton
Sketchbook 7 exemplares
Pendulous Breasts Quarterly 2 exemplares
The Grand Old Duke of York 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (2010) — Ilustrador — 970 exemplares
Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists (2011) — Ilustrador — 205 exemplares
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels (2015) — Contribuidor — 140 exemplares
Thought Bubble Anthology 2012 — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Beaton, Kathryn
- Data de nascimento
- 1983-09-08
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Locais de residência
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Educação
- Mount Allison University (BA|History & Anthropology|2005)
- Ocupações
- comic book writer
- Relações
- Murray, Morgan (spouse)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Doug Wright Award (2009)
Harvey Award (2011)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
2010s (1)
Princess Tales (1)
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Also by
- 12
- Membros
- 4,355
- Popularidade
- #5,760
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 247
- ISBN
- 38
- Línguas
- 6
- Marcado como favorito
- 22
One of the first places she ends up at is Syncrude. She works as a tool crib attendant, learning how to do her job, watching the first of many safety videos, and getting to know the people. As is the case at every location she ends up at, she's one of a very small number of women working there, and painfully aware that all the men are looking at her. It's an odd, uncomfortable, and artificial environment. She knows that the loneliness and isolation of the oil sands contributes to it - any one of the people she grew up around could become just like one of the guys at these sites. It's not a great situation, and she knows it, but there isn't much she can do about it. If she complains, she's either ignored or viewed as troublemaker who can't work with the team.
As the volume progresses, she meets lots of different people - some decent, some not so much - and gets to know the complexities of the oil sands. Mental health issues and drugs are a huge issue among the workers but never talked about, unless a workplace injury makes it impossible to ignore, and even then the root of the problem is never addressed. The same goes for gendered violence. While the workers are doing what they can to get by, the oil companies they work for are damaging the environment, which in turn affects the indigenous people who live in the area.
Although she doesn't say so directly, in her afterword Beaton mentions her sister's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and I couldn't help but wonder if her time at the oil sands is what eventually led to her cancer. There are multiple mentions, throughout the volume, of things like the cough and weird rash that a lot of the workers get, even those who primarily work in offices.
This took a while to grow on me, but by the end it was tough reading. The rapes were chilling, despite nothing much being shown on-page, just Beaton mentally "going away" for a bit. I wanted her to keep her museum job for longer (she looked so happy). I had a little blip of happiness when I recognized that period of time she started her webcomic, but mixed in with everything else, it just became sadness.
Extras:
A 3-page afterword by the author.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)… (mais)