Margaret Atwood Archives

When No One Turns Up To Neil Gaiman Or Stephen King's Book Signing
Nobody came." Margaret Atwood: "Join the club I did a signing to which Nobody came, except a guy who wanted to buy some Scotch tape and thought I was the help :)" Paul Fischer: "For my first book my publisher flew me out to the US — from England — for events First one, in Boston, the[...]
Neil Gaiman, Evan Dorkin, Ryan North Petition Missouri Over Book Bans
Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Derf Backderf, Alison Bechdel, Khalil Bendib, Matt Bors, Ellen Crenshaw, Mike Curato, Juno Dawson, Evan Dorkin, Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Deborah Hopkinson, Miles Hyman, Kelly Jensen, Lita Judge, Rupi Kaur, Maia Kobabe, Lois Lowry, Carmen Maria Machado, Dylan Meconis, Ryan North, David Small, Amir Soltani, Art Spiegelman and Colleen AF Venableare. Missouri schools[...]
Neil Gaiman & Margaret Atwood On Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes Comic
This includes Neil Gaiman telling a tale inspired by "Tear In Your Hand" with artist Bilquis Evely, and Margaret Atwood who will bring to life the song "Silent All These Years" with artist David Mack, who has also painted the cover Other contributors include Leah Moore, Colleen Doran, Derek McCulloch, Lar deSouza, Annie Zaleski, Marc[...]
Texas Asks if V For Vendetta & Y The Last Man are in School Libraries
But he has demanded answers by the 12th of November, noting that a number of Texas school districts of late "have removed books from libraries and/or classrooms after receiving objections from students, parents, and taxpayers." These include (and why this story is running on Bleeding Cool) graphic novels such as V for Vendetta by Alan Moore[...]
"The Handmaid's Tale": Hulu Greenlights Season 4 for Award-Winning Series
Created by Bruce Miller and based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, the series' renewal comes ten episodes into its third season – with the fourth season expected to premiere some time in 2020. Here's a look at the show's announcement via its Twitter account: You did this, Resistors Praise be 🙌 Season 4 of The #HandmaidsTale[...]
Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" Sequel "The Testaments" Coming in 2019
Author Margaret Atwood is bringing another tale of Gilead to readers next year, in a sequel to her "The Handmaid's Tale" called "The Testaments". Author Margaret AtwoodPhoto by Markus Wissmann / Shutterstock.com Of the announcement, Atwood said in a statement released along with the news from Doubleday Books: "Dear Readers, everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its[...]
Hulu Renews The Handmaid's Tale for a Third Season
Critics and fans seem to really like it. (Photo by: Take Five/Hulu) The series is an adaptation of the best-selling Margaret Atwood novel and tells the story of a dystopian future where a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship It stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann[...]
Vive la Netflix, Lesnar as Hogan 2.0, Atwood Talks Terrorists, Broad City Ends, and Cusack's Low 'Fidelity' [The Weekly Static s01e35]
Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 35? Apparently John Cusack's Not a Huge Fan of Disney's High Fidelity Series Netflix Says Au Revoir to Cannes Film Festival Following Rule Change 'Handmaids Tale' Author Margaret Atwood Talks Star Wars and Terrorists Broad City Creators Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson Announce End to Series, Sign Development Deal with Comedy Central Martin Scorsese to Direct[...]
'Handmaids Tale' Author Margaret Atwood Talks Star Wars and Terrorists
Margaret Atwood as earned the right to some strong opinions in her rather successful career as an author.  Perhaps you're familiar with one of her works in particular, "The Handmaid's Tale", which Hulu adapted into an award-winning tv drama series. Editorial credit: Markus Wissmann / Shutterstock.com In a recent interview Variety did with the 78 year old[...]
handmaid's tale season 2
With the streaming service's award-winning series set for a second season return in less than a month, Hulu has released their first full-length trailer for their series adaptation of Margaret Atwood's  The Handmaid's Tale season 2 The Emmy-winning drama's second season is expected to focus on Offred's (Elisabeth Moss) pregnancy and her continued fight to free her future[...]
Margaret Atwood and Ken Steacy's War Bears
Though the convention doesn't start until April 6th, the publisher has sent out a press release labeled "C2E2" announcing a brand-new comic from Margaret Atwood and artist Ken Steacy Called War Bears, the new comic is a historical fiction story set in the Golden Age of comics From the press release: War Bears follows comic book[...]
Margaret Atwood's 'MaddAddam' Trilogy Being Adapted to Series
Credit: Markus Wissmann / Shutterstock.com Looks like 2018 is starting off to be as good a year as 2017 was for Margaret Atwood, with the author's "MaddAddam" novel trilogy set to be adapted to series by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content after a bidding war for the rights The series will be executive produced by Anonymous Content's[...]
Margaret Atwood's Angel Catbird Audio Drama Coming from Audible in February
Angel Catbird, the critically acclaimed, NY Times bestselling graphic novel by Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas, and Tamra Bonvillain, is being adapted as an audio play by Amazon-owned Audible.com as one of its Audible Originals, a series which has also included an adaptation of Locke and Key as well as The X-Files: Cold Cases Atwood wrote[...]
Handmaid's Tale
Still riding high off their much-deserved Emmy wins earlier this year for their adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu announced on Tuesday that the series will return for its second season in April 2018 The streaming service is also set to premiere the third season of The Path on January 17th, 2018 and[...]
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With The Handmaid's Tale being a huge success story for Hulu (with a second season expected sometime in 2018), famed author Margaret Atwood continues her slow dominance over all streaming services with Netflix's six-part miniseries adaptation of her novel Alias Grace. Directed by Mary Herron (American Psycho) and written/produced by Sarah Polley (Dawn of the Dead),[...]
A First Look At Dark Horse's Angel Catbird (UPDATE)
Last year Dark Horse announced the first graphic novel from Margaret Atwood and Johnnie Christmas. Now it's finally come time for a preview of what the graphic novel will actually look like. But first, let's talk a bit about the content It's simply described as "a weird and wonderful tale about a part-cat, part-bird superhero," but it must be[...]
Dark Horse Publishes Margaret Atwood's Second Comic, For The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls
Dark Horse Comics has only just announced that they are publishing Margaret Atwood's first comic book, Angel Catbird. Comic by Sarah Winifred Searle Well, now they are publishing another, a contribution to The Secret Life Of Geek Girls, recently successfully Kickstartered. The Secret Loves of Geek Girls anthology is written for the geek girl who wants information and[...]
Margaret Atwood's First Comic Book, Angel Catbird, From Dark Horse Comics In 2016. It's A Bit Like Hawkman?
Dark Horse Comics has announced the publication of Angel Catbird, the first graphic novel by Margaret Atwood, the Booker Award–winning author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Heart Goes Last, with Bleeding Cool-favourite artist Johnnie Christmas and colourist Tamra Bonvillain. Angel Catbird is a unique and ambitious collaboration between Atwood and artist Johnnie Christmas[...]
The Guardian Combines Literary Authors With Comic Artists, From Audrey Niffenegger To Dave Gibbons
Creating pairings such as these… Gillian Flynn and Dave Gibbons AM Homes and Frazer Irving Margaret Atwood and Christian Ward Michel Faber and Roger Langridge Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell Dave Eggers Eggers, of course, already stretching across both worlds It's a stunning achievement on The Guardian's part A different comic will run every day from tomorrow on the Guardian website but will all appear[...]