Welcome back to WWACommendations! We took a little January break, so this edition contains many of our beginning of the year reads. The segue from 2023 into 2024 has felt very seamless to me, not necessarily in a good way, but comics are here to bolster us as we forge forward. Here are your first,…
WWAC Reads Books! Entering our Dragon Era Edition
Here at WWAC we are starting off our 2024 right, and really committing to reading in the Year of the Dragon with a wide variety of terrific books. Christa digs into A Woman is No Man, I read a couple upcoming speculative fiction titles by Ann Leckie and Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alenka enjoys some YA horror…
WWAC’S Favorite Manga of 2023
WWAC editors and contributors read a lot of different manga last year, from indie publishers like Glacier Bay Books to heavy hitters like VIZ and Kodansha. We read romance, horror, slice-of-life, autobiography… And we’ve managed to narrow down our list to our very favorite manga of 2023, so here they are!
WWAC’s Favorite Comics for Young Readers of 2023
Just as we were getting ready to bid farewell to 2023, I fell prey to a unique end-of-year anxiety. I found myself scrolling through lists, tallying up all the new teen comics published throughout the year. How much had I missed, and why did I miss so much when I spent time buying for a…
Roundtable: WWAC Reads Books! Digging into Winter Edition
We at WWAC have had an intense start to our winter reading, with a lot of heavy hitting books! Alenka’s immersed in books about incarceration while Christa’s reading YA speculative fiction to consider for a CYBILS award. Louis is appreciating Yellowface on audio and Kathryn’s fascinated by the short stories of Vandana Singh. Meanwhile, Masha…
WWACommendations: Plain Jane and the Mermaid, Odd Girl Out, The Sea in You and More
Welcome to the first WWACommendations of 2024! We’ve had a bit of new year magic crop up because almost everyone is on a theme this round. We’re all reading about mythical water creatures, except for Masha, the odd girl out. (That’s a pun, it will make sense in a moment.) We’ve also all picked comics…
What’s WWAC Watching? Superstore, Schmigadoon, & Northern Exposure
Looking for some soothing entertainment to usher in 2024? Now that the writers and actors strikes have concluded, we can feel a little bit of comfort watching films and TV shows. What entertainment has been keeping us comfortable? In the new What’s WWAC Watching? roundtable, me (Louis), Emily, Paulina and Kate recommend comfort films and…
ROUNDTABLE: Cover Girl: Chainsaw Man Vol. 12
Welcome to Cover Girl! For this feature, 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, Kayleigh Hearn, Masha Zhdanova, and Carrie McClain discuss the Chainsaw Man Vol. 12 cover by Tatsuki Fujimoto, featuring new series protagonist Asa Mitaka…
WWACommendations: Koreangry, The Infinity Particle, Rigsby WI and more
We’ve got zines, zines, ZINES baby! My dream for WWACommendations — fill it with zines! November is a bit of sequel to October, because Paulina got y’all ready for some Koreangry content so that I could jump in talk all about her work. Continuing along the theme of WWAC folks supporting each other, Kat sent…
WWAC Reads Books! October Brought Intense Immersion into Other Worlds
In this month’s WWAC Reads Books, we at WWAC indulge our legendary good taste in exploring other worlds, both far in the future and an invented past, in science fiction and fantasy that sucks you in.
WWACommendations: Gender Queer, Surviving Romance, Watership Down and More
Well, I feel like we are simultaneously hurtling toward 2024 and like there is way too much left to do in 2023, but the truth is that time moves at time’s pace, which means it’s simply time for October’s WWACommendations. Nothing more worrying than that! It is spooky season, but our reads this month are…
ROUNDTABLE: WWAC Reads Books! September Brought us Deep Satisfaction and Teen Thrills
The back-to-school vibes caught us in September, as a lot of WWAC Readers enjoyed books about teens this month! We’ve got horror, adventure, romance, nuanced fantasy world-building, and a philosophical look at bookselling and society. And as always, we’ve got magnificent taste.