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…)
Mon, Oct 30, 2006
Books, Comics and cartoons, General