Lucy Ellmanns Ducks, Newburyport is a 1000-paged stream of consciousness of an Ohio mother as she bakes pies. She is currently the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore with her favourite books of 2019: Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman (Text Publishing) and Childhood by Tove Ditlevesen (Penguin). She would buy a duck or a goose early in the year to fatten for the holidays. Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly PublicationsComics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir / Literary Biography & Autobiography.

We didn't write anything about it, but our friends seqscholars have done some amazing threads on it. Tzeporah Berman is an award-winning environmental campaigner who has been working on environmental policy in Canada and beyond for over thirty years. Eisners Kate Beaton's DUCKS is nominated for best graphic memoir. She has also published the picture books King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. The collections from her comics Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops each spent several months on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list, as well as appearing on best of the year lists from Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR Books, and winning the Eisner, Ignatz, Harvey, and Doug Wright Awards. Kate Beatonis an award-winning graphic artist from Cape Breton, best known for her world famous comic strip Hark! A Vagrant. Reviewers agree that Ducks is a monumental achievement in the graphic narrative genre, which illustrates the brutal reality that people face while living and working in the oil sands.Ĭome hear Kate Beaton in conversation with environmental activist and writer Tzeporah Berman. The graphic memoir published last year by Drawn & Quarterly traces Beaton’s two years working in Alberta’s oilsands. What is the human cost of the Alberta oil sands? Join us for an evening with acclaimed comics artist Kate Beaton, as she presents her highly-anticipated graphic novel memoir Ducks, about her experience living and working in an oil camp.ĭucks is Beaton’s first full-length work, and critics are already calling it a masterpiece, and “the best graphic novel of 2022” ( Wired). Kate Beaton’s Ducks has won this year’s edition of Canada Reads.

Ducks memoir