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.