GIFs! GIFs in comics. Okay. I am WILD excited about gifs in comics. GIFs in comics push the definitions, question your complacency. WHY do you like “comics?” What makes “a comic?” This is animation, this is animated, but is it not a comic? It is. It takes what a comic has to be (a series of…
WWAC on the Town: Lush Launches Sandlewood Smugglers Graphic Novel
Gorilla Perfume, an offshoot of Lush Cosmetics, have published their first graphic novel: On the Trail of Sandalwood Smugglers – a “true tale of deceit, duplicity and decapitation.” It’s the story behind the new Smugglers’ Soul unisex perfume, which uses the sought-after ingredient sandalwood oil and whose bottle features the image of notorious sandalwood baron…
Shopping for the Lesbian Superhero in Your Life? Autostraddle’s Got You Covered
Autostraddle covers comics? Why yes it does, and quite nicely if you ask me. This morning they published the most important gift guide they’ll put out during this holiday season: Lesbian Superheroes (And Other Comic Stuff for Queer Lady-Types). Yesss, yesss, more of this. In a strange coincidence, (diversity makes for good comics? NO WAY!)…
Mighty Marvel Monday: Sick Burn, Bro!
Marvel Monday again, hopefully any and all Americans are not too full of pie to focus on some news:
A Positronic Woman’s Plea: Include Trans Women In Fiction
Earlier this year, Andrew Wheeler of ComicsAlliance listed resolutions that he wanted the comics industry to achieve. Among these resolutions was trans representation in the Big Two for superheroes. This has not yet come to pass in a prominent way. Al Ewing has Loki freely changing their appearance between male and female in Marvel Comics’ Loki:…
[NSFW] Sex Criminals Review: The Perfect Cervix
Sex Criminals #8 Matt Fraction (W), Chip Zdarsky (A) Image Comics The last issue ended with Suzie, Jon, and Rach adrift in a sea of black, with Suzie and Jon’s crimes suddenly exposed for Rach to see. This issue takes place a little bit later, so we aren’t shown what happened immediately after the end…
Shopping Guide: Things to Buy the Gamer in Your Life
Struggling with what to get the gamer in your life for Christmas? Have no fear! WWAC Games Editor, Al Rosenberg, is here to help! 1. Games This is the obvious one. What do the gamers in your life love the most? What makes them gamers? The games! If you know what they like this is…
Fans Rally to #SaveStorm
If you haven’t heard of #SaveStorm you’ve either been living under a rock or surfing space with Captain Marvel. Recent sales for Storm have been less than great, sending a ripple of anxiety fabout the series’ longevity in fans’ hearts everywhere. The cancellations of New Warriors, She-Hulk, Elektra, and All New X-Factor are just recent examples…
[TW] Belief Is Radical: Believe Shia LaBeouf
During an interview with Dazed Digital earlier this week, actor Shia LaBeouf shared the knowledge that he was raped during a performance art project. We believe him. General response to the news was familiar: you don’t need me to tell you how people reacted to a man, a famous man, saying that he was raped. Abused…
Recommended Listening: James Baldwin, The Fire This Time
The Sunday Edition is a long-running CBC Radio program. This morning, host Michael Enright interviewed famed American dancer and coreographer, now the executive artistic director of New York Live Arts, Bill T. Jones. The group staged a performance this year called James Baldwin, This Time! based on the writer and critic’s work. Enright and Jones had a…
Multifarious: Praying in a See-Through Church
It’s Nice That has a rundown of why and how the New Yorker manages to consistently get such wonderful illustrated covers. From Chris Ware, to Adrian Tomine, those New Yorker covers are killing it, and it’s all thanks to art editor Francoise Mouly and contributor Mina Kaneko. Work like this is important to cartoonists and…
R/W: Do Worry
Well, add another book to my Jane Austen fangurl collection. Jane Austen Cover to Cover by Margaret Sullivan explores the various covers of Austen’s oeuvre. The covers are not only a delightful way to engaged with Austen’s continued legacy, but also to learn a little about what Austen’s books mean to a particular era. The…