Margaret Atwood's new comic book is "bonkers"

Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, has completed her first graphic novel, Angel Catbird, with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain, about a superheroic anthropomorphic winged feline. It's bonkers, but...

...to Atwood, it isn't strange at all. Before she a venerable elder stateswoman of literature and the winner of the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, she told me, she was a comic book fan who grew up devouring superhero books about heroes like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel."I'm a child of the '40s and that's when superhero comics were really, really big," said Atwood. Nor is she a stranger to making her own sequential art; she wrote and illustrated a children's book called Up in the Tree in the 1970s, and published an intermittent series of autobiographical strips called "BookTour Comix" on her website. "I've been making my own comics since I was little,

A wonderful quote: "I'm so old. Why do anything that isn't fun?"