WIRED caught up with author Kate Beaton via email to ask about her memoir, the end of Hark a Vagrant, and teaching readers about life in the oil sands of Canada.
is a memoir of her experiences working in the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta. It’s a serious, moving, and heartfelt piece of cartooning that is as kind as it is fearless and easily one of the most impressive graphic novels of this year, or works of any kind in the past decade., and teaching readers about life in the oil sands of Canada.is utterly devastating. It feels, as a reader, as if it’s something that you’ve been working toward for some time.
It’s my intense connection and deep concern that make it a hard and impossible story to tell—as soon as I describe one thing, I feel bad that I did not describe three other things to make sure that I am giving the full picture, because there is no one detail that will make you understand what I want to show you; the contradictions are endless, the complexity enormous.
If I started talking about the oil sands to someone, I couldn’t stop, because there was no point at which I could be satisfied I’d explained it. I needed editors to help make this book so that it wasn’t 2,000 pages—and it’s still 500 pages, and there’s all kinds of things missing. But that’s probably for the best. It has to be a readable book.way back in 2018 that you were working on a graphic novel.
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