Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Tia, Paige, Louis, and Nola examine Matteo Scalera’s cover for Space Bandits #4.
Found in Translation: An Interview with Jennifer McKeon
One of the unique challenges of the manga publishing industry is that of taking a product in the Japanese language and translating it for English-speaking audiences. Translating isn’t just converting one word of vocabulary to another. A good translation starts with a firm foundation of both languages and their idiosyncrasies, and then uses strong creative…
We’ve Read Multiple Works by These Women and You Should Too!
The other week, author Shannon Hale shared the following on Twitter: In writing workshops I ask the men, "Can you think of 5 women writers that you've read multiple books of theirs?" Most cannot. Then I ask the women, "Can you think of 5 men writers that you've read multiple books of theirs?" The question…
V.E. Schwab Talks Bones, Knives, and The Steel Prince
Last year, V.E. Schwab opened a new doorway into the Shades of Magic world with The Steel Prince, a comic series focusing on the past trials and forging of Maxim Maresh. Four issues, a few stabbings, some badass magic and a decisive battle later, we thought that was all, only to be gleefully surprised with…
Journey Across the Seven Seas: Sillier and Spookier
What’s up for the latest massive roundup from Seven Seas? Mood whiplash! We go from buddy comedies and inept dragons to zombies and the scariest thing of all: fad diets!
Plus-Sized Elf Makes A Joke of Women’s Bodies
As a fat person, I’m not sure what I dislike more: no fat representation in media, or fat representation in media. Because whenever it happens, it’s almost always as a comic relief, a glutton, a character who is defined by always eating. Their fatness is only the “acceptable” kind, a little chub around the midsection,…
Hipster Manga: 7 Seeds
7 Seeds Yumi Tamura Shougakukan Content warnings: 7 Seeds contains violence, death that is sometimes gruesome, and an attempted rape. Yumi Tamura hasn’t had a series released in English since Basara, her award-winning fantasy epic of the 1990s. This might lead her fans in the Anglosphere to think she’s stopped work or that she peaked…
The 10 Rules You Really Need For Writing (That Are Much Better Than That Other Guy’s)
It has come to my attention recently that some writer on the internets has put out a list of the ten rules for writing a book, those things made of paper and ink and probably including words. Dearest reader, I took a look at this so-called “list” and I am gravely sorry to inform you…
Journey Across the Seven Seas: Classic Roundup
So what’s on the map for Seven Seas today? A whole lot of blast from the past. You’ve seen some of the reboots, now take a moment to catch up with the originals:
Found in Translation: An Interview with Jocelyne Allen
One of the unique challenges of the manga publishing industry is the challenge of taking a product in the Japanese language and translating it for English-speaking audiences. Translating isn’t just converting one word of vocabulary to another. A good translation starts with a firm foundation of both languages and their idiosyncrasies, and then uses strong…
Cover Girl: Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince #2
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Tia, Wendy, Heather, and Annie discuss Lenka Šimečková’s cover for Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince #2 from Titan Comics.
Bodacious Space Pirates Shoots for the Stars … And Misses
Bodacious Space Pirates Tatsuo Sato (writer), Chibimaru (illustrator) Media Factory December 2013-September 2014 Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for Bodacious Space Pirates. When I happened to come across the title Bodacious Space Pirates, I was definitely interested. It’s pirates! In space! And they’re bodacious! What’s not to like? After reading both volumes, though, I found the…