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Angel Catbird Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) Hardcover – September 6, 2016

by Margaret Atwood (Author, Creator), Johnnie Christmas (Illustrator), Various (Illustrator)

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The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale writes her first graphic novel, a cat-centric all-ages New York Times bestselling adventure.

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.

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!

Published in over thirty-five countries, Margaret Atwood is one of the most important living writers of our day and is the author of more than forty 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.

Atwood's The Blind Assassin was named one of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels published since 1923 and her recent MaddAddam Trilogy is currently being adapted into an HBO television show by Darren Aronofsky

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112 pages
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English
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Dark Horse Books
Publication date

September 6, 2016
Dimensions

6.4 x 0.6 x 9.3 inches
ISBN-10

9781506700632
ISBN-13

978-1506700632
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Gr 7 Up—With her graphic novel debut, acclaimed author Atwood tells the story of Strig, an ordinary man who mutates into a strange owl/cat/human hybrid because of a secret formula. Featuring familiar tropes—an unlikely superhero and an evil villain who laughs maniacally as he plans to take over the world—the tale is reminiscent of classic superhero comics. Added to the mix are Cate, Strig's coworker and love interest, and an entire underground community of hybrid creatures. The artwork is colorful, vibrant, and filled with action. Atwood's introduction explains how and why this book was created, touching on her childhood interest in comics and her adult pursuit of bird conservation. Overall, this is a well-intentioned book that sometimes feels too purposeful. There are pieces of statistical information and website links about cats scattered throughout. Often, these facts feel preachy and overly educational (for instance, a reminder of "The Importance of Fixing Your Cat"), and the placement is at times jarring, breaking up the narrative flow. VERDICT An attractive but sometimes disjointed offering; for larger collections with superhero fans seeking additional materials.—Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library

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.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1506700632
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books; Illustrated edition (September 6, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781506700632
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506700632
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 0.6 x 9.3 inches

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- #2,079 in Dark Horse Comics & Graphic Novels
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- #16,191 in Superhero Comics & Graphic Novels

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. ‘Her sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019. It was an instant international bestseller and won the Booker Prize.’

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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David Edmonds

Wildly disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018

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This is an unfortunate disappointment for me. I haven't read much of Atwood, but I'm familiar with her and her significance as an author so I was more than intrigued by the idea of a graphic novel written by her. Well, imagine my disappointment in what she gave us: from her rather self-serving foreword, where in the first paragraph she reminds us that she is “an award-winning nice literary old lady” and then goes on to great lengths about her lifelong interest in comics, to the flat story that is nothing but one overused superhero trope and bad pun after another, to the lackluster art (sorry, but Johnnie Christmas' art just didn't save this enough for me), to the interjected facts about the number of cat and bird deaths in Canada, the US, and the UK that occur each year, I was shocked that this got published. I would assume that had anyone other that Margaret Atwood presented this project, it would have been shot down. This is nothing to me but a vanity project and one that I just can't see myself continuing. The only reason I can't give it 1 star is because it is Margaret Atwood, after all, and it seems sacrilegious to do so.

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Lessfatman

Margaret Atwood having fun.

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2017

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Margaret Atwood found a dream team to make a silly comic book with highly unlikely superheroes.
I guess there is only so much one can squeeze out of the rattiness of rats while real people are bombed and burned to death and brought to our living room in living color daily. This just does not cut it, everything is too 'girly'.
Maybe I am not the target audience but I will buy the next one as well.

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fishstyqs

I really wanted to like this because it's Margaret Atwood and she's an amazing

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2017

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I really wanted to like this because it's Margaret Atwood and she's an amazing, accomplished author, but this was awful. I would say it would be great for kids if there wasn't the sexual nature of one of the female characters.

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Del & Steph

Cool idea but...

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2017

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I really liked the idea of Angel Catbird and his character design is pretty awesome. Maybe it's just because this is the "origin story" issue, but I found a lot of this book cringe worthy and super cheesy. The cat facts were also..hmmm...just weird. I get it, but I don't get it. Hopefully books 2 and 3 are better, but after this, not sure if I'd pay to continue.

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DJ Huff

Great way to introduce friends and neighbors to the idea of NOT letting their housecats roam outside to eat songbirds!

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016

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Love the illustrations and the statistics about cats eating songbirds every few pages.

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Charlotte Harrison

It's fun when your grandma writes you a silly story about ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2016

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It's fun when your grandma writes you a silly story about a man who turns into an Angel Catbird. This isn't a literary masterpiece, but I was smiling the whole time I read it and that's worth a lot. And there are some sketches by Margaret Atwood in the back, which of course is the best thing.

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Jatinder Singh

Good addition to Ms. Atwood's Bibliography

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017

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Get this if you like Ms. Atwood's work and comics.
Great for any collection. I wish I could buy the physical books, but we are running out of space in our library. So I bought all three volumes on Comixology (an Amazon company) during thanksgiving (each one was ~$5-$6). Great read. Loved it.

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BrittTheBrat

Can't wait for the next installment!

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017

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Such a fun comic from Margaret Atwood. Love all the extra content in this book from the author and illustrators.

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M. Pateman

What is a nice old lady doing writing comics? Creating something brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2016

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An excellent book. Margaret Atwood has made the switch from traditional form novel to graphic novel seamlessly. An interesting plotline with all the superhero background you want, a courageous scientist, a terrible accident and an evil boss. All twinned with Johnny Christmas' wonderful artwork.
I can't recommend this enough.

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A. Schneider

Angel great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2018

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Love the book. Funny and informative and awesome Atwood.

A Timmins

Splendid and Fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2016

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Charmingly weird and wonderful, as you'd expect. Loved the art pieces at the back!

KGBeast

Klassischer Comic einer Literatin

Reviewed in Germany on September 12, 2016

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1939 ist nicht nur das Jahr gewesen, in dem Margaret Atwood die Welt erblickt hat, sondern auch Bob Kanes Batman und als die junge Dame dann mit dem Lesen begann, begannen die Comics in den USA auch wieder in Farbe zu erscheinen. Und jetzt, wo sie das Ende des eigenen Lebens und Wirkens auf sich zukommen sieht, wendet sie sich noch einmal den Freuden ihrer Jugend zu – und klärt dabei auch noch über den möglicherweise idealen Umgang mit Katzen auf.

Durch die Rekonstruktion einer Splicing-Formel im gentechnischen Bereich wird der junge Gentechniker und Computerspezialist Sprig Feleedus zum Ziel eines Anschlags, bei dem auch seine Katze mit ins Visier gerät – und ein Vogel. Da die Anschlagsopfer bei diesem Ereignis von einer Probe des neuen Materials getroffen werden, verbindet sich ihre DNS zu etwas völlig Neuem – Angel Catbird ist geboren, ein Held, der neben menschlichen Zügen viele Eigenschaften von Vögeln und Katzen hat und darüber hinaus noch fliegen kann.

Zusammen mit anderen Halbkatzen – Katzen, die menschliche Gestalt annehmen können und vice versa – unter der Führung von Cate Leone, die im gleichen Labor arbeitet wie Sprig und die ihrem Chef nicht sonderlich traut. Und das allzu recht.

Wer sich an die alten Batman-und-Catwoman-Geschichten erinnert, die immer voller fürchterlicher Sprachspiele um das Wort Katze gewesen sind, der wird hier auf diesen Seiten allerlei Vertrautes entdecken, denn dieses Vehikels haben sich die Schöpfer dieser Graphic Novel in schmalosester Art und Weise bedient, wie man ja schon an den Namen der beiden Haupthelden sehen kann. Überhaupt atmet dieses Comic – auch in Bezug auf die Erzählweise – enorm den Geist der Comics, wie man sie aus den Anfangsjahren und dann aus den 70er Jahren gekannt hat – und wie sie Alan Moore etwa in seinen Werken immer mal wieder aufleben lässt.

Daneben gibt es immer wieder auch in Fußnoten interessante Informationen zu Katzen und Vögeln und ein großer Teil des Buchs ist voller Werksskizzen anhand derer der Zeichner Johnnie Christmas und Margaret Atwood – und in Teilen auch Tamra Bonvillain – den Werdensprozeß der Charaktere und ihres „Spielfelds“ kommentieren. Insgesamt etwas ganz Ungewohntes aus der Feder einer der wichtigsten Autorinnen unserer Zeit und ihrer Kollaborateure. Man darf gespannt sein, wie es wei-tergeht.

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Gabriel Ayax

Chabacano

Reviewed in Mexico on January 31, 2021

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Una historia chabacana y francamente pobre. Ideal para quien desea tener un objeto curioso de Margaret Atwood, pero lejos de la calidad imaginativa de sus libros básicos. La impresión es de alta calidad.

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