Earlier this year the creative team behind the award winning graphic novel, Skim, released a fabulous new slice-of-life comic, This One Summer. Here at Women Write About Comics, we’re big fans of This One Summer. In fact it was the inaugural read of our Twitter Comic Club (#WWACComicClub). And we weren’t the only ones who loved…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
First details out on Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series Yesterday, Telltale Games released details of the Game of Thrones games that’s in the works for PC/Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and iOS. As an interesting twist, players will play from the perspective of five different characters connected to one house…
Top Ten Comfort Comics For Fall
As the weather begins its inevitable yearly betrayal of us here in the Northern hemisphere, there is comfort to be found in our hobbies. Often neglected during the sweaty days of summer, autumn is a prime time for reading comics while drinking tea, buried in layers of thick blankets. Re-reading your favorite comics for their…
Over $70,000 raised for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) and Diamond Comics Distributors is happy to announce to this year’s membership and fundraising drive resulted in over 44o comic book specialty shops joining or renewing their memberships, raising over $70,000 to the cause. According to the Diamond’s press release, “Since the Retailer Membership program was launched in 2009, the number of…
Archie Andrews IS The Shield
Archie comics is relaunching The Shield with the title character making the switch to female. WWAC Staffers had some thought bubbles on what an Archie Shield would look like. Romona After reading the first half of the sentence, I pictured Archie rolling up a telephone book while entering the interrogation room, bald-headed and tightly black t-shirted. After…
Creativity for Creativity’s Sake
What inspires our love of comics and other geek creations is the creativity involved: inventing characters, worlds, and stories and visualizing them in unique ways. Sometimes we read them to escape, to feel connected, to feel challenged. Creativity is a comic creator’s job. I envy that. Deliberately cultivating creativity in my life often feels like a luxury…
XKCD Doing Rosetta Landing Comics
The European Space Agency is, at this very moment, attempting to land the unmanned Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Confirmation of the landing won’t reach us instantaneously, because spaaaaace, so we’re expecting it at about 11:15 AM ET. The Rosetta Mission marks the first time we’ve landed something, some human-made thing, on a comet. It’s a complicated…
Evil Dead Coming to TV… with Bruce Campbell
The Evil Dead series extends past the three original movies to a 2013 reboot, a travelling musical, games, comics, and now, a TV show. A TV SHOW! Poorly named American network Starz will bring the horror comedy titan to TV in 2015. Original director/producer team Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert are set to produce the series,…
Seeking: Copyeditor
In case you didn’t know: Women do write about comics, guys. Seriously, a lot. Our beat is comics, creators, and geek culture from a feminist perspective. We are committed to intersectionality and internationality (our diverse staff hails from Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Brazil, and the United States). And while we’re an unabashedly feminist, unapologetically ladies-first…
