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Date: 2023-01-03 04:48 (UTC)
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Ducks is Kate Beaton's graphic novel memoir of her two years and change working in the oil fields of Alberta, Canada, in the mid-00s, to pay off her student loans. As you may be aware Beaton is from Cape Breton, a poor area of Canada that people have always left to find work, but her experience is shaped by the highly gendered nature of the oil camps and by the fact that there are very few women working there. Says a lot of complex things about capitalism, labor, sexual harassment and assault, and environmental degradation.

A Frog in the Fall is by Linnea Sterte, a European artist who makes really beautiful comics. It's the story of a young frog who sets out on an adventure across a vaguely Japanese, vaguely late Edo/early Meiji landscape, done in indigo ink. It's one of those stories where not a ton happens, but the art is clever and charming and I really just loved it. Digital copies are available on PEOW's Gumroad until 31 January 2023 -- if you're intrigued by the preview, I also highly recommend Sterte's Stages of Rot, which is available separately and as a bundle with A Frog in the Fall.
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