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Kate Beaton

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1 year

well i was 23 when i did this so

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A 23 year old sculpted this. What's your excuse?

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I had day surgery today (nothing big) and they were like "don't make any important decisions in the next 24 hours bc you might not remember them." But I had to go grocery shopping. Later Morgan was like "you bought ... so much, like a lot, of cheese."

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Dad Tube

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I turned 40 over the weekend and fuck youth forever baby live the dream

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We started watching Masters of the Air, wish us luck!

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1 year

My book was on Obama’s favourite list but what is really electrifying the room here at mom and dad’s is that King Cole tea is on sale $5.99 a box, and everyone is flying through the store with shopping carts full of them

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The Bear made the most stressful half hour of television of 2022, all the true crime series about serial killers in the world have nothing on when those pre-order slips came running out of the machine

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The idea that Scholastic could create a program designed to opt out, censor and ban diverse books from its book fairs and then call it "Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice" is the phoniest, weakest position anyone could think up

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1 year

My brother in law gets up early with the baby and has been going through Deep Space Nine so I also have

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1 year

Well thank you, I am honoured.

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1 year

I always look forward to sharing my lists of favorite books, movies, and music with all of you. First up, here are some of the books I read and enjoyed this year. Let me know which books I should check out in 2023.

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And there is a child who identifies as Deez Nuts, but nothing gets past me, the strictest head in the country

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March 31st is Trans Day of Visibility, so The Beat has a list of Trans comic creators for the occasion -

Trans Comic Creators for Trans Day of Visibility (March 31)

The Beat celebrates Trans Day of Visibility 2022 (March 31st) with a listicle of thirty-one trans comics creators!

www.comicsbeat.com

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Ducks has done so well, people felt like I disappeared from comics and it felt that way to me even though I always had work on my plate - for for my book to finally come out to this reception is everything that a person could ask for, thank you for your support and readership.

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2 years

I hope you have a wonderful Halloween

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In 2014 I was in my studio in Toronto one weekend and there was a kid’s birthday party next door and they played Let It Go on repeat and I thought, annoyed, “that’s a lot of times to listen to this song” but now I have a 3 year old and truly: here I stand in the light of day

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#HourlyComicDay2023

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It's an honour to win two Eisners for Ducks. I hope the success of my book encourages more comics, more diverse perpectives, made and published from underrrepresented worlds of labour, or class, or those communities affected most by corporate and government power.

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He gave dad the greatest running joke he gets to use for the next infinity

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Our dad worked at this grocery store for 45 years so, of all the things to get, here is one of the best.

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1 year

Jesus Christ. There has been a tailings pond leak from the Kearl Lake project into the water near Fort Chipewyan First Nation for NINE MONTHS and the people weren't even informed. These corporations are criminals, murderers, they knowingly dump carcinogens

Toxic tailings pond leaks for almost a year say Northern First Nation

Chief Allen Adam says all work at the Kearle tarsands mine must stop until full investigation into tailings pond leaks

www.aptnnews.ca

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2 years

An amazing opportunity

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Dad’s last word on Obama

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And the tea, the tea, the tea

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Goody Howard

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Being raised Catholic I know a thing or two about Divine Agonies but in spite of the weeping and wailing in the next room I don’t think there was a Station of the Cross where Jesus was made to share the iPad with his brother

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My uncle: “what’s all this about ducks, what is everyone talking about ducks for” Dad: “that’s the name of Kate’s book” My uncle: “ohh. I’ll have to get that then.” Moments later: My uncle: “yes I’ll have to get my hands on ‘Turkeys’”

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If you’re not two naked Kens driving the Barbie Bus are you even living

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Potion pals

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The jalopy

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1 year

I talk about this in on tour, and often in my interviews, but find that it is also often cut down or cut out when published, so. Oil sands corporations and the Alberta government are knowingly killing Indigenous people with industrial carcinogens. They will kill workers too.

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I live for this kind of art <333

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No one can fire me from my job. Fuck the oil companies for giving people cancer. Fuck Syncrude, Suncor, Shell, and all of them, they are murderers. Fuck the government for letting it happen. Fuck the rest of us for saying nothing.

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Our house has produced two Canada Reads longlisters in as many years, but do you think our children care! No! They only want to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and eat goldfish crackers

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“You’ve gone too far Quark! You’re finished here!” Quark: is never finished here

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Very sad to hear the world has lost Sam Gross. He was naturally hilarious and inspiring to be around.

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Toxic emissions from the oil sands up to 6000% higher than reported, wow, who would ever have guessed that corporations would lie about this

Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds

Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels

www.theguardian.com

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Haven’t watched episode two yet but anticipating

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1 year

I want a weighted blanket when I see them, but what I really want, as a core feeling, is to be warm under the weight of 4-6 mismatched blankets/ quilts getting mentally prepped to tear them off and get a blast of cold air because the house is freezing and you know you have to run

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A deep cut here

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haha bless u all

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Learning the rules

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3 years old is the age where you can take your child to the change stalls at the pool with you and they will make the explosive commentary on your naked body you were too shy to announce to the room yourself

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I like to buy big sunglasses, and I remember that in Archie comics there was always an establishing shot where there was some random babe in the foreground and all you could see was her giant head wearing giant honkin sunglasses, looking off in the distance, randomly posing

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2 years

Loving Seattle!!!

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“216 bags” they repeat to each other, for that price

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Everybody who has multiple older relatives on their Netflix because they would never figure out how to set it up or pay for it or don’t even have a credit card and you did something nice for them. It’s a bad time

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We are headed back to Canada, we have had enough of money that’s all the same colour it’s too confusing and the dollar bills make it look like you have lots of it when you don’t

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Who have I become

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1 year

I left Newfoundland too soon

Iceberg lovers go wild over viral photos of the 'dickie berg' off Newfoundland's coast | CBC News

A man from Dildo, N.L., has captured the attention of already-enthralled iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly shaped hunk off the coast of Newfoundland.

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I wrote a bitter tweet last week about grown men in comics pursuing teenagers. I’ve removed it, I said it was the same story every time, but I was wrong and I am sorry for it, this time the story is very different and has a horrific end. I hope there is never another like it.

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What my kids see when I am serving them a lovingly prepared healthy supper they refuse to eat

pacoulmag

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#MementoMoriMonday A winged skull above what appears to be a"bone soup" From Parish Church, Wiston, #Lanarkshire

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#HourlyComicDay2023

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I had a blessed Boxing Day afternoon to myself so

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Can we have one nice photo in this family

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2 years

Thank you Toronto! Thank you everyone who came to the book tour stops so far. We are going home today. I got this duck sweater in a vintage store it was very thematic I was thrilled. See you on the west coast in November

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I just listened to another CBC interview I did that was just posted, where again they cut out everything I said about Fort Chip, cancer and oil companies and government poisoning communities but kept everything else. I am so frustrated with this. Why can’t I talk about this

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Back on my bullshit- Odo is meeting his goop family on planet Special Effects

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2 years

Night night

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1 year

1/2 - I had a really great talk with BBC Outlook- In person it was a long conversation and it’s edited for time etc but again I hear the part where I talk about cancer in Indigenous communities around the oil sands cut out. So I will say again.

Outlook - Debt and oil: My two years as a migrant worker - BBC Sounds

Kate Beaton took a job in a Canadian oil facility and was cut off from the outside world

www.bbc.co.uk

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Merry Christmas

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#HourlyComicDay2023

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it's nice not to be dating anymore because you might like someone a lot but then they might text you or something and they spell sex like "seggs"

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1 year

Canada Reads had excellent books on their long list and shortlist, it was my privilege just to be there, and my great fortune to have @mattearoach as my champion, debating passionately, earnestly and sharply. Thank you, I just want to say thank you.

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11 months

Some things are destined to become trivia that's difficult to recall years later but people my age will never forget Chris Gaines

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7 months

Thank you!

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🦆The powerful graphic memoir "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands" wins the title of BOOK OF YHE YEAR at this year's @HarveyAwards ! Congratulations @beatonna !👏🎉 @DandQ Accepting on Kate’s behalf was @Ssnyder1835 🏆

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Back at the manger

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#HourlyComicDay2023

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Ppl ask about the use of the word “b’y” in Ducks so either this oft seen meme will enlighten you, or, the opposite

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1 year

And if you touch the oil thermostat your father will appear out of nowhere and look at you like this bird so you never do that but for now you’re just very warm under this heavy pile of quilts and it feels good

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I am blessed!! By @mattearoach and @KenJennings . The phone was ringing off the hook let me tell you

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I got Covid coming back from Germany and it has lasted like two weeks and I am only now clawing myself out of my tomb. Is it because we insisted on seeing this fabulous jeweled skeleton?? ( @daycrossing also got Covid). I can't stay mad at u fabulous skeleton even if u cursed us

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We used to get only two tv channels, and on Saturday evenings one played Deep Space Nine and Voyager back to back while the other played hockey so I used to watch this but the rules are fuzzy - it’s: very interesting.

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When you praise the new king

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My book often gets called a look into a hidden world, but it's not hidden, it's an enormous industry of thousands of people, with far reaching consequences. But I understand the description. It can feel hidden if no narratives break through. I look forward to more.

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What better time to rise from the comic dead for a treat than on Halloween

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Toddler waking us up at 5am

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What an utter charm this book

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Warming up

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Crayons are such a symbol of childhood, hours spent colouring with crayons. Except irl the second children get a whiff of anything else to colour with like markers they are like fuck crayons forever don't darken my doorway

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"Fort Chip needs a comprehensive health study. Contrary to what the government has been telling us for years, this industry has a huge adverse impact on the environment. Money talks, and the Peoples downstream of this industry represent a sacrificial zone"

Tar Sands: Canada's First Nation Communities Are Paying the Price

Dr. John O’Connor, a family physician in northern Alberta, is fighting to help the local First Nations battle the adverse health impacts of living in the sha...

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If someone is answering a tweet with bigotry I’m not going to debate or QT to dunk on it or invite any kind of engagement I’m just going to block that account, no thanks

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I do not want to sanitize a version of my opinion for air that handles corporations or government with kid gloves when they are killing people for money

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2/2- Oil sands corporations and the Alberta government are knowingly killing Indigenous people with industrial carcinogens. Nothing is being done because of the money and the jobs. It is more profitable to look the other way or deny. Anecdotally you hear of workers and cancer too

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Tragic day

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My son turned 2, Spider-Man has entered the house and we must welcome our new overlord and his merchandise

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NPR this morn, much gazing in the distance

Kate Beaton's new graphic memoir is about the dark type of job you take for money

Kate Beaton, known for her popular webcomic Hark a Vagrant, is out now with her new graphic memoir Ducks — which dives into the day-to-day life of working in the Canadian oil sands.

www.npr.org

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I spoke about this on different CBC interviews because I talked to CBC a lot for this book and it seemed to me that almost every time it was edited out for time, or maybe because I was too angry when I spoke, or I don't know. People are dying, it's not nice.

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If you do not start thinking about these oil corporations as murderers, then you do not understand them. It is just something they are allowed to do along with everything else if people are in the way or if they are inconvenient or no one cares and it's less expensive.

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Pls sign up for my Parenting Seminar on arguing with three year olds, it's called: "Wait, now we are both crying, why did I start arguing with a three year old"

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I don't play many video games but recently played Pentiment and The Case of the Golden Idol, and loved them! Before then the last one I played was Meredith Gran's emotionally impeccable adventure game Perfect Tides, which I can't recommend enough, so on point like all of her work

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Come on down to my house for the finest

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How can you travel at light speed and not hit something that's my question

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Santa Baby

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It’s us

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3yo telling her dad @memurray to leave the room so she can do something he doesn’t want her to: “go away daddy, go away in the garbage can”

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Donno why people can’t just talk about things anymore, they always have to be “opening up” about them in news stories which makes them sound breathless and on a fainting couch

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#HourlyComicDay2023

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It has been known for decades that there are elevated cancer rates and other health issues in the Indigenous communities living downstream of oilsand industries, it is in the government's interest to hedge and deny it until the profits are gone

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