5/13/2023 0 Comments Ducks graphic novel![]() ![]() In that rugged landscape, where working conditions were tough and she was one of few women, Beaton sought to pay off college loans while receiving an unofficial education in the realities of sexual harassment, environmental degradation, and exploitation of labor. Before she became widely celebrated for her webcomic “ Hark! A Vagrant,” this artist from Cape Breton in Novia Scotia, Canada, traveled west at the age of 22 to work for a mining company in the province of Alberta. The idea of this golden age of graphic novels occurred to me last month as I was reading Kate Beaton’s sneakily brilliant graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly, Sept. ![]() 27), a new memoir by athlete/activist Tommie Smith, written with Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Norton Young Readers, Sept. Has there ever been such a varied profusion of long-form comics for all ages, both fiction and nonfiction, published by presses large and small? The days when fans had to make a case for the graphic novel as a valid form of literature are long past a book like Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina can now be longlisted for the ultraprestigious Booker Prize, while graphic works for young readers are regularly nominated for the National Book Award, as was Victory. I’d submit that we are also in a golden age of the graphic novel, though it is perhaps less universally (and loudly) recognized. It’s often said, with great fanfare, that we are living in the golden age of television. ![]()
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