London-based freelance illustrator Claire Scully goes beyond the edges of the universe in the third and final installment of her introspective journey through self-imagined places. In the Outer Wilderness, Scully invites us to step into the unknown through unique landscapes inspired by her love of science fiction, imagination, and space documentaries. As always, Scully’s work…
Controlling Fascism with Surrealism on Tradd Moore’s Variant Cover for The Department of Truth #4
Conspiracy theories, secret histories, and supernatural activity are themes at the center of The Department of Truth, written by horror-thriller mastermind James Tynion IV with its premiere art by Martin Simmonds. Several of its most collectible issues are variant covers, where artists take liberties with the general ideas within the popular comic. Tradd Moore has…
Sequential Sartorial: Hellfire Gala 2022 Reveals, Mutants Edition
Marvel has officially announced the framing of this year’s Hellfire Gala, confirming earlier promises that it would become a regular event. It is, however, significantly scaled back on a publishing front this year. Instead of a multi-issue crossover event, as we got last year, this year’s Gala is a single one-shot. However, that certainly hasn’t…
Sequential Sartorial: Hellfire Gala 2022 Reveals, Non-Mutants Edition
Marvel has officially announced the framing of this year’s Hellfire Gala, confirming earlier promises that it would become a regular event. It is, however, significantly scaled back on a publishing front this year. Instead of a multi-issue crossover event, as we got last year, this year’s Gala is a single one-shot. However, that certainly hasn’t…
Cover Girl: The Amazing Spider-Man #74
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new or recent and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Andrea Ayres, Nola Pfau, and Wendy Browne discuss the cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #74.
By the Letters: Nate Piekos’ Word on The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering
With over a decade in the comics industry, Blambot’s award-winning typographer, letterer, and graphic designer Nate Piekos has created more than 300 fonts. We see many of these fonts every day, though we may not realize it as we surf the internet, play video games, shop for products, skip through ads, and, of course, read…
Cover Girl: Vault Gets Undressed [NSFW]
In a very special edition of our Cover Girl series, I’m taking a look at some very sexy, very NSFW covers and chatting with Vault Comics’ EiC, Adrian Wassel about the company’s Vault Undressed line.
Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: North America an Interview with Artist Alina Pete
Today, Iron Circus Comics launches its 30th Kickstarter with Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: North America. The fifth anthology in this series that retells fairy tales and folklore from around the world, The Woman and the Woods and Other North American Stories steps into the world of Indigenous stories as told by independent Indigenous creators in…
Cover Girl: Fight Girls #3
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, Louis, Kat, and Wendy discuss the Frank Cho cover of Fight Girls #3.
Colorist on Color: Tamra Bonvillain
Hello again friends! We’re here with another installment of Colorist on Color. This time we are joined by Tamra Bonvillain. She is a colorist living in the Southern US. Tamra has won multiple awards for coloring, from the Comicbook.com Golden Issue Awards in 2017 and 2018 to the Aurora award in 2017. She’s an accomplished…
Is He Warm Enough?
Often time, female characters get to wear tiny clothing to show off their figure, while the men have to keep their muscular bulk covered up. Comics are rife with displays of reverse sexism like this, but every now and then, we get moments, or even entire characters, who get to break the mould. But skimpy…
Meanwhile on Planet Boob
Sometimes a comic artist really goes above and beyond when it comes to depicting the perfection that are boobs. Perfect orbs of perfect perfection they are, boobs. And it’s really cool when artists get them just right. Not every artist has the skill to give boobs the attention to detail they deserve, but in this…