War Bears by Margaret Atwood - ISBN: 9781506708980
Paperback
Nazi-fighting superheroine, comic dreams, and the Golden Age of Canadian comics.
  • Paperback

    104 pages

  • Release Date

    12 March 2019

Summary

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale, comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of Canadian comic books. Collects War Bears issues #1-3.

Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created at the peak of World War II by comic book creator Al Zurakowski, who dreams of making it big in the early world of comics publishing.

A story that follows the early days of comics in Toronto, a brutal war that great…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781506708980
ISBN-10:1506708986
Author:Margaret Atwood, Ken Steacy
Publisher:Dark Horse Comics,U.S.
Imprint:Dark Horse Comics,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:104
Release Date:12 March 2019
Weight:478g
Dimensions:265mm x 173mm
About The Author

Margaret Atwood

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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