7/3/2023 0 Comments Ducks beatonIt also, by nature of the expansion, becomes less funny and poignant as those elements retreat further into what is an absolutely harrowing recitation of grim realities (partially enhanced by having known a version of Beaton and her family through the stories she’s told for years on Hark! A Vagrant).Īs if anticipating the dissonance felt between the two Ducks, Beaton includes on pages 265 and 266 of her 2022 Ducks a brief anecdote that almost feels out of nowhere save for to explain how these two very different Ducks by Kate Beaton could exist. Kate Beaton’s 2014 comic, Ducks, was roughly between 27 and 40 pages long (depending panels per page), and at the time I described it as “sad and funny and poignant and altogether human.” Kate Beaton’s 2022 comic, Ducks, is torrentially longer, expanding most of the original work into a 436-page heavyweight. There’s Ducks by Kate Beaton and now there’s Ducks by Kate Beaton.
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