Publisher to Release New Comic Series "War Bears" and "The Complete Angel Catbird" Collection in Fall 2018 Dark Horse has purrfect additions for Margaret Atwood fans' bookshelves! From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes War Bears, a historical fiction comic series that traces the Golden Age of comic books, and The Complete Angel Catbird, a trade collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel. War Bears is Margaret Atwood's latest foray into the graphic novel medium alongside visual storyteller Ken Steacy (Astro Boy, Iron Man, Tempus Fugitive). Steacy is an Eisner and Inkpot Award-winning creator and Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame Inductee. War Bears follows comic book creator Al...
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On February 14, 2018, Dark Horse will release The Secret Loves of Geeks, the follow up to last year's hit anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, edited by Hope Nicholson. The upcoming anthology features comic and prose stories from writers, cartoonists, and professional geeks of all gender identities and sexual orientations about their most intimate, heartbreaking, humorous, and inspiring tales of love, sex, and dating. On Wednesday, February 21, 2018, we are celebrating the release of this book by hosting a simultaneous signing by The Secret Loves of Geeks contributors around the world. Writers and comic creators from Finland, Scotland, and across the USA and Canada will be appearing in local comic shops to sign copies of the books...
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Timed to National Bird Day on January 5th, Dark Horse Books has released preview pages from ANGEL CATBIRD Volume 2 by Margaret Atwood (the Man Booker Award-winning author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Hag-Seed), artist Johnnie Christmas (Sheltered), and colorist Tamra Bonvillain (Doom Patrol). ANGEL CATBIRD is being published by Dark Horse Books in tandem with Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives, www.catsandbirds.ca, an initiative led by Nature Canada, the oldest conservation charity in Canada. ANGEL CATBIRD is the latest environmentally charged book by Atwood, who was named the recipient of the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for her political and environmental activism. “ANGEL CATBIRD 2 will be released on...
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Dark Horse is proud to announce that one of the most eagerly anticipated and unusual books of the year, Angel Catbird Volume 1, by the Man Booker Award-winning author Margaret Atwood, artist Johnnie Christmas, colorist Tamra Bonvillain and letterer Nate Piekos of Blambot, will debut as the #1 Hardcover Graphic Novel on the New York Times bestseller list for September 25. Angel Catbird is the first graphic novel and the latest politically charged book by Atwood, who was recently named the recipient of the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for her political and environmental activism. Angel Catbird is being published by Dark Horse Books in tandem with Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives, www.catsandbirds.ca, an initiative led by Nature Canada, the...
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The most anticipated graphic novel of 2016! Internationally best-selling and respected novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate for one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of 2016! “The latest politically-minded story from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood.”--WIRED “An eccentric and entertaining combination of a superhero comic (the title character is transformed into an animal that is part cat and part owl in a lab accident) and an appeal to consider the impact of cats on the environment.”--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “ANGEL CATBIRD sits at the intersection Atwood’s love for superheroes, cats, birds, and mythology.”--SLATE “A real...
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This fall, Dark Horse Books will publish one of the most eagerly anticipated and unusual books of the year: ANGEL CATBIRD, the first graphic novel by Margaret Atwood, the Man Booker Award-winning author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Heart Goes Last. For her first graphic novel, Atwood is collaborating with artist Johnnie Christmas (Sheltered) and colorist Tamra Bonvillain (Doom Patrol) for a weird and wonderful tale about a part-cat, part-bird superhero. Timed to Atwood’s appearance at the American Library Association Conference in Orlando, FL this week and ahead of her appearance at San Diego Comic Con next month, Dark Horse Books has revealed the first look inside ANGEL CATBIRD. "I grew up in the...
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In case you missed it, last week Dark Horse Comics announced exclusively with The New York Times, the upcoming publication of the graphic novel ANGEL CATBIRD, written by Margaret Atwood (the Booker Award-winning author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Heart Goes Last), illustrated by Johnnie Christmas (Sheltered), colored by Tamra Bonvillain and lettered by Nate Piekos. Hope Nicholson (The Secret Loves of Geek Girls) is the consulting editor, with Daniel Chabon the acquiring editor at Dark Horse. The project is being published in tandem with Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives, an initiative led by Nature Canada, the oldest conservation charity in the country. The ANGEL CATBIRD announcement was met...
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Featuring Contributions by Superstar Writers and Artists Margaret Atwood, Marjorie Liu, Noelle Stevenson, Mariko Tamaki, Editor Hope Nicholson, and More December 9, 2015—Dark Horse Comics announced today plans to publish the highly anticipated anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. Editor Hope Nicholson has assembled a dazzling mix of prose, comics, and illustrated stories about love, dating, and sex featuring more than fifty creators, including Booker Award–winning novelist Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Gisèle Lagacé (Ménage à 3), Marguerite Bennett (A-Force), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), and Carla Speed McNeil (Finder). It...
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Dark Horse Comics Announces the First Graphic Novel from Booker Award–Winning Novelist Margaret Atwood Dark Horse Comics Announces the First Graphic Novel from Booker Award–Winning Novelist Margaret Atwood Dark Horse Comics announced today the publication of Angel Catbird, the first graphic novel by Margaret Atwood, the Booker Award–winning author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Heart Goes Last. Angel Catbird is a unique and ambitious collaboration between Atwood and artist Johnnie Christmas (Sheltered) that tells the story of an unusual superhero over the course of three all-ages graphic novels, the first of which will be published by Dark Horse Comics in the fall of 2016. The project is...
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