Comments on: Margaret Atwood, cartoonist http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/29/margaret-atwood-cartoonist/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:08:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Roundup (2a of 2) http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/29/margaret-atwood-cartoonist/#comment-19437 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:18:20 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/29/margaret-atwood-cartoonist/#comment-19437 [...] Margaret Atwood, cartoonist. (via Bill Peschel) [...] […] Margaret Atwood, cartoonist. (via Bill Peschel) […]

]]> by: The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Atwood does comics http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/29/margaret-atwood-cartoonist/#comment-11290 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:28:48 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/29/margaret-atwood-cartoonist/#comment-11290 [...] I had no idea about this at all until Heidi mentioned it on The Beat: award-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood enjoys creating the occassional cartoon, which includes pastiching her own book The Blind Assassin and the supporting author tour and awards bestowed upon it. Wow, I’d never come across this before; I know she has tried a variety of genres and media (including using SF elements - she was a popular choice in the SF Book Group I’m part of) but I had no idea she drew these, how cool. I can also see from the same post that Heidi is about as impressed with Tony Long’s pontifications on the literary merits of graphic novels as I am. Wonder what he would make of a Booker-winning novelist doing comics (or even a Philip K Dick award winning one like Richard Morgan or…) [...] […] I had no idea about this at all until Heidi mentioned it on The Beat: award-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood enjoys creating the occassional cartoon, which includes pastiching her own book The Blind Assassin and the supporting author tour and awards bestowed upon it. Wow, I’d never come across this before; I know she has tried a variety of genres and media (including using SF elements - she was a popular choice in the SF Book Group I’m part of) but I had no idea she drew these, how cool. I can also see from the same post that Heidi is about as impressed with Tony Long’s pontifications on the literary merits of graphic novels as I am. Wonder what he would make of a Booker-winning novelist doing comics (or even a Philip K Dick award winning one like Richard Morgan or…) […]

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