Willy Wonka and Turnips: The Cartoons of Kate Beaton

Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton

Peary I Thought We Were Friends
"Peary got himself some frostbitten feet and someone else drove that sled and that is that," writes Beaton. "Now, these two weren't Canadian, but it is always interesting to note that at the very same time that Canadian immigration was insisting that black people couldn't handle the cold, a black man was the first non-native person to set foot on the North Pole. Don't you love it when the irony is that good? Matthew Henson gets his due these days; it only took a century or something."

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