Tattoos are a way to permanently declare your allegiance, your identification, your love. It should be no surprise, then, that a lot of WWAC contributors have fabulous comics tattoos. If you’re considering a comics tattoo yourself (I am!), let this photo gallery serve as inspiration.
Hazel Newlevant’s No Ivy League is a Challenging Read
No Ivy League Hazel Newlevant (writer and artist) Roar (Lion Forge) August 21, 2019 No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant challenged me as a reader. At the moment of writing this, I am not sure how to feel. I have wrestled with this review for weeks trying to sort out my thoughts. Usually, after reading…
Catching Up With Rosemary Valero-O’Connell at SDCC
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is everything I thought she’d be the moment I ran up to the 01: First Second booth. I was ten minutes late, sweating and anxious from navigating the crowded maze-like aisles of the San Diego Comic-Con Exhibitor Hall. In contrast, Valero-O’Connell embodied the effortlessly stylish vibes of the book she so lovingly illustrates….
The Free Black Women’s Library Comes to LA: A Talk with Director Asha Grant
Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen on Slauson in Los Angeles is buzzing with conversation. The pink neon sign above the door is radiating the energy of the room—“good vibes only”—black people fill the space, there to support black womxn and an organization that uplifts them: The Free Black Women’s Library LA. It’s their official launch party….
Our Super Review: Sarah Graley’s Our Super Adventure
Our Super Adventure: Press Start To Begin Sarah Graley (Artist & Writer), Stef Purenins (Flatter) Oni Press March 2019 In Sarah Graley’s introduction into Our Super Adventure: Press Start To Begin, she describes the connection people have to her work as a kind of “shared silliness,” a phrase that encapsulates the entire feel of this…
WWAC Asks: WonderCon 2019 Edition
WonderCon was a blur this year, but for WWAC’s new convention column, WWAC Asks, I trekked the artist alley and posed a question… “If you could work with any artist or writer, dead or alive who would it be and why?”
A Little Magical Girl Ultra Violence: A Review of Magical Beatdown Vol. 1 & 2
Magical Beatdown Volume 1 & 2 Jenn Woodall (Art & Words) Silver Sprocket With a longsword, a baseball bat studded in nails, and her trustworthy bloodthirsty motorbike, Jenn Woodall’s eye-patched magical vigilante combats harassment from scumbags with style all while paying homage to classic magical girl manga with her zines published by Silver Sprocket, Magical Beatdown…
Accessibility! Was it a Thing?: WonderCon 2019 Con Diary
My last time at WonderCon was an accessibility nightmare. With inadequate parking, rude staff, and lack of seating, I thought I would never return to its large halls, but alas I decided 2019 would be a good year to see if WonderCon had improved on its inaccessibility, and to score some good comics, zines, and…
Oni Press MEGAPUBWATCH part DEUX: October and November
Welcome back to WWAC’s official Oni Press Pubwatchm brought to you by me, Jazmine. If you are new to WWAC’s Pubwatches, they are a summation of what a comics publisher has been up to in the past month. Life got a bit wonky last month, and due to health reasons this will be my last…
Oni Press PUBWATCH: September, Baby!
Welcome back to WWAC’s official Oni Press Pubwatch, brought to you by me, Jazmine. If you are new to WWAC’s Pubwatches, they are summations of what a comics publisher has been up to in the past month. This one is Oni Press’s September goings-on. This Pubwatch will be different from my last; it will not…
A Girl, A Ghost, and A Laundromat: A Review of Sheets
Sheets Brenna Thummler (Writer & Illustrator) CubHouse August 28, 2018 Sheets follows a young thirteen-year-old girl named Marjorie Glatt who is still recovering from her mother’s untimely death. She and her family run, own, and live above their laundromat, and all daily duties have fallen to Marjorie. She is isolated at school and is struggling…
That Box We Sit On Review
That Box We Sit On Richie Pope (Art &Words) I came across Richie Pope’s Ignatz-winning comic That Box We Sit On while I was moseying through the Comics Twitterverse. A story about two black kids hanging out, sitting on the same box my siblings and I would sit on when we didn’t want to play,…