Angel Catbird Volume 1 - Hardcover

Margaret Atwood; Johnnie Christmas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1506700632 ISBN 13: 9781506700632

Publisher: Dark Horse, 2016

Synopsis

ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST AUTHORS PRESENTS A PULPY PUN-FEST

Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year.

On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat and an owl. What follows is a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired superhero adventure with a lot of cat puns.

Published in over 35 countries, Margaret Atwood is one of the most important living writers of our day and is the author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her work has won the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, Premio Mondello and more. Angel Catbird is her first graphic novel series.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels. Her newest novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short fiction) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, 'The Door,' was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: 'SF and the Human Imagination,' a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
Johnnie Christmas is the creator/writer/artist of Firebug, published in Island magazine. He is also co-creator and artist of the Image Comics series Sheltered and Pisces from Image/Shadowline. Additionally his work has been published by Dark Horse Comics, Valiant Entertainment, BOOM! Studios and Black Mask Studios. He lives in Vancouver, BC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506700632
• ISBN 13: 9781506700632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80