Kate Beaton in Conversation

Award-winning cartoonist Kate Beaton joins editor Irene Velentzas for a conversation about such past works as Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops as well as her most recent graphic novel Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022) as part of this year's Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. The book captures Beaton’s stint working in the Alberta oil fields as a young woman, where she experienced loneliness and harassment and witnessed first-hand the brutal toll the industry exacts on the land. (approx. 60 mins.) 

After the conversation, gather with fellow CXC fans at a free reception from 5 to 7 PM at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, which is just south of the Wexner Center across the plaza.

See other 2024 Cartoons Crossroads Columbus events at the Wex.

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly; Kate Beaton, courtesy of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.