![]() ![]() ![]() In Ducks, she's routinely sexually harassed in every possible manner, and when she reports the problem to her supervisor she's rebuked with a series of sexist platitudes: "We work as a team here. But those struggles were nothing compared to what was inflicted on her by her fellow workers simply because she happened to be one of the very few women around. She pulled 12-hour shifts in an environment that, as she draws it, is little better than a hellscape. It's only now that Beaton has seen fit to tell the other side of her life story: how terribly she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil fields. It may come as a shock to find that there's so much darkness lurking within the mind that gave us those perky revolutionaries, feisty peasants and a roly-poly Napoleon. ![]() Beaton is best known for her quirky historical comic series Hark! A Vagrant, which became two bestselling books, as well as the equally lighthearted King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. ![]()
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