Who is Rebecca Kraatz?

Born in the Okanagan Valley, raised on the Alberta prairies and Vancouver Island Rebecca Kraatz currently lives in Nova Scotia.


Her comic collection, House Of Sugar, won the 2007 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. Her upcoming graphic novel Snaps is being published on Conundrum Press in May 2011.

Woodburns

Here is a list of woodburns that I have created in the past as well as the year they were made:


I Stumbled 2011
Listen 2011
Prisoner of the Mountains                                                                         2011
West 2011
In Weather 2011
Arrow 2011
Dreamhouse 2011
Flower Space 2009
Blush Before Snow 2007
Hankerchief 2006
Blame My Arms 2006
There’s Always Me 2006
1940s Face 2006
Meadow 2006
Red Shorts 2006
Charge of Whispers 2006
At The Beach 2006
Long Ago Night 2006
Curly 2006
Atlantic 2006

Drawings

Here is a list of woodburns that I have created in the past as well as the year they were made:


4 Heads 2010
3 Brothers 2010
Wallpocket                                                                                     2010
Teacup 2010
Curtains 2010
Coleslaw 2010
Brown Dress 2010
Stripes 2009
Eastend 2009
Batherobe 2009
Hands Together 2008
Sissy 2009
Hussy 2009
Tissue 2007
Red Shorts 2006
Ashtray Rock 2007
Two Heads 2006
Two Women 2005
Diary 2005
Dancers 2005

Books

Snaps takes place throughout World War II in a town on Vancouver Island. The narrative is a period piece told from different points of view, where the characters and their stories overlap in varying ways. Within the story, you will find the interweaving story of soldiers, hard working women, and children.


House of Sugar is a four-panel "episode" style, with heavy lines and slightly squashed faces. The overall theme of these stories is that our immediate pasts are messy and painful places, but if we look back far enough, everything is fine. Autobiographical anecdotes take up the majority of the stories.

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