![]() ![]() ![]() This third dimension (painfully acquired and tamed into art) is what makes Ducks a very different-and, inevitably, a more mature and compelling-achievement than Hark! A Vagrant, the witty and hilarious webcomic that established Beaton’s reputation and popularity. I’m much older now, and three-dimensional.” It is an arresting statement, complicated by an ingenious reference to the underlying theme of the book: the relationship between art (which in the case of a graphic artist is bidimensional) and life (whose three-dimensionality is the result of experience, knowledge, and trauma). I am twenty-one years old.” Then, almost as an afterthought: “This is me at twenty-one. IN THE FIRST two frames of Ducks, Kate Beaton introduces herself as the protagonist of this very personal and profoundly moving memoir: “This story starts in 2005. ![]()
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