If you’ve ever read Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale or Oryx and Crake and wished that the endlessly imaginative Canadian novelist would try her hand at comics—well, you just got your wish. In honor of an upcoming British Library exhibition of British Comics, The Guardian has invited famous novelists to team up with comic artists for a short strip. The results are pretty darn cool.
Dave Eggers has a typically Eggers-y comic about a buffalo. Gillian Flynn teamed up with Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons for a creepy little tale of domestic horror.
But the best, for my money, comes from Atwood, who went real dark for her story of a dystopia ravaged by mutated STDs. God, Atwood is just so good. Maybe it’s time for her to put her name on a full graphic novel? I’d read the shit out of that. Ms. Atwood, if you’re out there, please consider it!
Read Atwood’s strip, then keep an eye on The Guardian for more “Novelists do comics.” I know I will.