Margaret Atwood draws cartoon strip for ‘geek girl’ anthologyThe novelist is contributin

Margaret Atwood draws cartoon strip for ‘geek girl’ anthologyThe 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.The Booker prize-winning Canadian writer is shown on the cover of The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, along with other contributors: “I’m white-hair w. cat; pleased I have long legs at last,” she tweeted of her image. She will be drawing her own cartoons detailing her “personal experiences as a young woman” for the anthology, says Nicholson; other pieces from more than 40 contributors range from a comic about “lovers who meet, interact, and learn some truths about themselves through an MMORPG” from Irene Koh, one on a childhood obsession with Final Fantasy VII from Jenn Woodall, JM Frey’s story entitled “How Fanfiction Made Me Gay” and a comic on how writer Meags Fitzgerald’s “pre-teen love of Sailor Moon intersected with her new curiosity about the mechanics of sex”.”Read the full piece here -- source link

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