Steven Universe has won the hearts of the women of WWAC. The show is a short-form cartoon that, somehow, at eleven minutes an episode–and under the guise of being a coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old half-human, half-gem–manages to also tell some pretty incredible stories. These stories include the meaning of friendship, the pain of unrequited…
Sunday Art Gala: Meet the WWAC Powerpuff Girls Super Squad!
Learning about a new avatar creator is like a call to action for us at Women Write About Comics. With the April 4th premier of the new season of Cartoon Network’s Powerpuff Girls, how could we resist the opportunity to Powerpuff ourselves–especially when eeeeverybody’s doing it. One of our pet peeves when it comes to…
Barbies, Bodies, and Image: But Can I Really Be a Barbie Girl?
On Friday Mattel debuted three new body types for its Barbie line, tall, petite and curvy, the first substantial changes to the iconic fashion doll’s figure since her bust was slimmed and her waist widened several years ago. In a long and in depth cover story at TIME, Eliana Dockterman examines the history of Barbie resistance…
Sunday Art Gala: WWAC Peanutized for The Peanuts Movie
If there’s one thing we love here at WWAC, it’s making adorable avatars of ourselves in various formats. With the upcoming release of The Peanuts Movie, we happily Snoopy-danced our way over to the Peanutizer to produce these little gems and share our special memories of Charlie Brown and the gang.
What’s Cute? YOU ARE! Imperfect Fun With Chanrio
Sanrio! You’ve heard of Sanrio. Hello Kitty, Badtz Maru, and my personal fave Gudetama. Millions of other mascot characters are out there in the Sanrio fields—and now so are you! (Possibly. The engine has its limits.) Chanrio is a cute little game or art program that lets you pick from a limited number of facial…
Shake Shake Shake: Etch-A-Sketch Turns 55
Some toys will never go away, and a classic invention like Etch-A-Sketch is definitely one of them. Today, the mechanical drawing toy turns 55 years old and is still making appearances and getting mentions in today’s pop culture and the media. Originally invented in the 1950s, French engineer Andres Cassagne came across the idea of a…
Play Dress-Up With Moomin! Weekend Polyvore Fun
There are some gorgeous Moomin-themed apparel lines out there, and despite misgivings I can’t help but want to bury myself in them and hibernate. A lot of these lines come via Japan, and the latest is no different: Moomins have landed at UNIQLO. I have waved my Moominous flag all over this site before, but allow…
Sunday Art Gala: Work, Play, Lift! More Stealth Cosplay
Have you seen Desiree’s stealth cosplay as Anya Corazon, also known as Spider-Girl? There are all sorts of ways to sneak cosplay into our daily lives, and so, taking inspiration from Joie Fatale’s Google+ post, we decided to take to Polyvore to design some of our own!
Sunday Sketch Gala Returns: VILE FEMPIGS For One Night Only!!!
Dear friends, You may have seen that earlier this week we received the delightful feedback, No one had has the right to censor any form of art you vile fempigs Which of course delighted several of us! And our Jamie, as she so often does, took the initiative and from this prompt drew up a rather dazzling…
Sunday Art Gala: WWAC Barbie Princess Power!
In Princess Power, Barbie’s latest animated movie, she plays Princess Kara who is kissed by a magical bug and gains all kinds of super powers and becomes SUPER SPARKLE! Being Barbie, she uses her powers for all kinds of good, from rescuing stranded sailors, to stopping time, to fixing bad hair cuts. Barbie invites young girls to join…
Ringing In the New Year In Mega-City One
It’s the New Year in 2000AD’s Mega-City One. What will our intrepid WWAC staff wear to prepare for the, er, festivities? Let’s find out! Kelly: New Year’s Eve, Mega-City One: SJS (Sexy Judicial Squad) Just because the future is grim doesn’t mean we can’t dress to kill. Sometimes literally. We know your secrets and we look…
Sunday Art Gala: Dressing for the Hunger Games
I asked the women of WWAC to suit up for Panem. Here’s how they’re dressing for the Hunger games. Claire: What if [the worst]? If I have to go to the woods to play at murders, I don’t want rocks dropped on me, I don’t want to get cold or stay wet. Luxury & laughs…