In much of the world, it’s time to go back to school, but the manga publishing machine churns ever onward, never stopping, never slowing down. This month we’re taking a look at the second volume of Until I Love Myself, another shoujo romance, and a Dracula reimagining in which Mina Harker is a champion wrestler!…
ROUNDTABLE: Pride Month, Manga Edition
Welcome to the WWAC Pride Month LGBTQ+ manga roundtable! Our manga-loving contributors sat down to talk about their favorite series, trends in LGBTQ+ manga, LGBT content in manga overall, and what we’re looking forward to this pride month.
Maia Kobabe’s Memoir Helps Gender Queer People Find Their Identity: Why Is E Being Sued for It?
In Maia Kobabe’s powerful memoir, Gender Queer, Kobabe shares eir journey to discovering eir gender queer identity and how e helped family and friends come to accept eir new pronouns. At times painfully raw, this personal story is relatable and necessary — which is why I’m incensed that Gender Queer is being banned across the…
DC PUBWATCH: March 2022
For the first time in years, the Batman and Superman team-up book is titled World’s Finest, and issue #1 lives up to the claim.
REVIEW: Chéri My Destiny: Chocolately Sweet And Spicy Boys Love
Okage Machino’s Tokyopop boys love manga Chéri My Destiny starts out by introducing Sakura, a Japanese male pastry chef who gained fame in France. He is oozing with confidence about the popularity of his Western sweets shop Bisous. However, when he hears about a Japanese sweets shop that recently opened up in the neighborhood, Sakura…
REVIEW: Alice in Leatherland #4 is Nothing Like I Expected (Which is Great!)
In Alice in Leatherland #4, protagonist Alice Snowhite goes on more miserable app dates until she realises what she’s looking for can’t be found in other people. It’s time to take a good long look in the mirror.
The Queer Comics That Give Me Pride
It’s Pride Month folks, and this year marks six years since I first understood I was queer. Given that Naoko Takeuchi’s Japanese manga Sailor Moon was the catalyst for understanding my suppressed orientation, I wanted to take some time to share the other manga, graphic novels, and webcomics that have made me proud to be…
5 Yuri Manga Recommendations To Read This Pride Month
What better time to read manga about girls in love than pride month? Yuri manga in the West is often overlooked and underappreciated, or dismissed as fantasies by and for straight men, ignoring the complexities and depth of this genre. But even outside the confines of the yuri label there are incredible stories being told…
Visible: Trans Creator Spotlight on #TransDayofVisibility
For Trans Day of Visibility we wanted to honor a few of our personal favorite trans and nonbinary creators in comics! ( A big thanks to fellow WWAC-er Zainabb Hull for helping to organize this piece)
REVIEW: I’m a Wild Seed Is a Vibrant Journey of Queerness and Self-Discovery
“What does freedom look like for you as a queer BIPOC?” This is the question from a friend that inspired Sharon Lee De La Cruz to write and draw I’m a Wild Seed, a fun, vibrant, and moving exploration of her journey of self-discovery.
REVIEW: Heir’s Game Brings a Swashbuckling Romance to Webtoon
As a kid I loved The Three Musketeers and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I loved the big feathered hats and the rapiers, the swashbuckling and the adventures. I was therefore thrilled to discover Heir’s Game by Suspu, a Webtoon with all the rapiers and adventures anyone could want, and also, queer protagonists!
REVIEW: Breathing In With The Graphic Novel Juliet Takes A Breath
Originally published in January 2016, Gabby Rivera’s debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath was a comforting read that I read as a recently out queer Black person in 2016. Now, the novel has been adapted into a graphic novel by writer Gabby Rivera, illustrator Celia Moscote, colorist James Fenner, and letterer DC Hopkins. Published by…