Margaret Atwood draws cartoon strip for 'geek girl' anthology

The novelist is contributing her own cartoons, detailing her experiences as a young woman, to Kickstarter-funded The Secret Loves of Geek Girls

Margaret Atwood is taking a short break from writing acclaimed and award-winning literary novels to contribute a series of cartoons to a crowd-funded, all-female anthology aimed at the "geek girl" looking for "stories on dating and love".

Racing towards its goal of C$37,000 (19,000) on Kickstarter - launched earlier this week, it is already at over C$27,000 - The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is the brainchild of Hope Nicholson, a Canadian comic-book publisher and editor, who called it "a celebration of the stories we tell each other but never make public - until now". Atwood is the most high-profile of a host of women, both creators and fans, contributing a mix of prose stories and comics to the anthology.