Christina: “You should write about money. I need serious money advice.” Note: My qualifications for giving financial advice are that I’ve effed up my life enough times that I’ve received loads of financial advice, and am happy to share it now with you. I’m assuming that if you’re in desperate enough straits to ask ME…
Wonder Woman Movies You Just Wouldn’t
The winner of last week’s poll is… the inimitable Ellen Ripley! That’s right WWAC readers, your final-final girl is she. Ripley blew away the competition, but to be fair, I disqualified Sarah Connor (on the basis of her role shifting through the Terminator series), so it might not have been a clean fight. Recount? Sorry, what’s…
Short and Sweet (or Sour): Time Travel, TV, and Monsters
Welcome to another exciting episode of Short and Sweet (or Sour). This week’s comics take us back and forth through time and explore how successful (or not successful, as the case may be) Dark Horse has been using classic creatures, like vampires and Frankenstein’s monster, in their books. We’re all over the place but don’t…
Interview With Dean Trippe
Dean Trippe is the kind of creator with such an obvious passion for comics, it’s enough to make the most dedicated of fans feel lazy. We all dislike a character costume at some point, but have you ever inspired a campaign of redesigns amongst fellow artists and fans like Dean Trippe did? I would love…
News & Things: My Barbershop Quartet is Dead
Welcome back to News & Things! Today we have the Winter Soldier trailer, bisexual Loki, 25 reasons to love genre fiction, and much more! Read of the Week 25 Reasons I Fucking Love Genre Fiction Read the full transcript of a speech that screenwriter, novelist and game designer Chuck Wendig gave GenreCon in Brisbane Australia….
Code Monkey Steal Heart
Code Monkey Save World #1 (of 4) Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton, Takeshi Miyazawa, Jessica Kholinne, Simon Bowland Pak Man Productions, 10 Print JoCo, Monkeybrain Comics Code Monkey Save World is a comic inspired by the songs of Jonathan Coulton (Code Monkey, Re: Your Brains, and more), featuring a literal coding monkey who must rescue the…
News & Things: Are you a girl? Are you a lobster? A sexy lobster?
Kickstarter of the Week Do you want more Bee and PuppyCat? Of course you do. Wait, you don’t know what Bee and PuppyCat is? Shame. Shaaaame. So, it’s a popular cartoon short created by Natasha Allegri, and produced by Frederator/Cartoon Hangover. They’re the lovely souls responsible for Fairly Odd Parents and Adventure Time, respectively. In…
Meeting Captain Manchester: an interview
Real life superheroes get a lot of press. It doesn’t matter how small your town is, how street-level your gesture–someone is going to write a feature on you. You will be interviewed. There will be local newspaper headlines that sound like Vice swagger: “Our evening on patrol with Salford super-hero, Knight Warrior,” from the Manchester…
Looking for a few good writers!
Are you a regular Women Write About Comics reader who’d like to join in on the fun? A feminist (social) media geek who wants to expand her platform? A recent graduate who wants to flex her social media and writing muscles? Then you might be who we’re looking for.
Race and Gender Roundtable: Part Two
Welcome to Part Two of our race and gender roundtable, where we talk about creators and authenticity, consumer threat levels, and the future of diversity in comics. You can catch up on Part One of the roundtable here.
Poll: The final… final girl
Here’s your chance to weigh in on the final girls of horror. Who’s your favourite? Who kicks the most monster butt? Tell us in the comments! Whence the final girl? Some say it all started with Psycho. Others point to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. However it started, the final girl has had a strong presence in horror cinema…
News & Things: The Shadow Hero
Welcome back to News & Things! Today we have news on Gene Luen Yang’s upcoming project, the Earl of Lemongrab vs. Frankenstein’s Monster, why Charlie Hunnam dropped out of Fifty Shades of Grey, and more! Read of the Week Cultural Gutter’s Carol Borden compares and contrasts Frankenstein’s Monster and Adventure Time’s Earl of Lemongrab in…