Fantasy Sports No. 1 Sam Bosma Nobrow Press Whether you’re suffering post-SPX withdrawal or are reflecting on your tragically SPX-free weekend, I’m sure you’re curious about the Ignatz winners. Who are these earnest indie creators picking up awards? Should I buy these books? I can enthusiastically say yes, buy them all and do it now,…
Elena Ferrante: Who Has the Right to Privacy?
Elena Ferrante is the name on the cover of some of the most powerful novels I’ve had the chance to read. The author has lived in secrecy for many years now, with dozens of guesses about her identity surfacing over time. Now a journalist has “discovered” her true identity and claims to have done it…
Bombshells and Broken Backs
I don’t read a lot of single issues anymore. On a grad student budget, for both time and cash, it makes more sense to just pick up trades and catch up on series I enjoy when I can. For no other series is that more true than for DC’s Bombshells, the Marguerite Bennett and Sauvage-led weekly series.
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Happy Wednesday, gaming lovelies! I can’t believe it’s already October. Here’s your friendly reminder that there’s still time to sign up for this year’s Extra Life Game Day to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. You can be someone’s super hero by playing games for 24 hours and raising money to help kids. Double win!…
Remote Role-Playing: Keep the Dice Rolling
My favorite kind of social event is a good role-playing session with friends, when we’re sitting around a messy table cluttered with books, maps, papers and dice, littered with snack wrappers and empty coffee mugs. But this idyllic kind of gatherings have become increasingly hard for me to arrange: as we grow up, schedules become…
Toronto’s New Penguin Shop is Lit
With my pal and fellow WWACer Angel, I visited the new Penguin Shop in Toronto run by its publisher Penguin Random House Canada.
Why Your School Library Needs QUEER: A Graphic History
QUEER: A Graphic History Julia Scheele & Meg-John Barker Icon Books September 2016 QUEER: A Graphic History is the gender and sexuality textbook every school library should stock–on every shelf. It runs at an unrelenting pace, if you keep turning the pages, but each leaf has enough information and suggestion packed into a short paragraph…
NBC Canceled Mail Order Family and That’s a Good Thing
Well, that was fast: NBC will not be moving forward with Mail Order Family, a sitcom by three white creators about a widowed white man who buys a Filipina mail order bride to help raise his daughters. The show lasted about three days after it’s announcement before it was shelved amidst concerns that the premise…
“Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?” – How Fictional Witches Shaped My Identity as a Woman
October is here! The month of All Hallow’s Eve, Halloween, Samhain, of witches, ghouls, and delighting in the macabre. At WWAC, we are exploring the archetype of the witch and what she means to us. Starting us off, Stephanie Tran asks, “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”
A Study in Pink: Cartooning Sherlock Queerly (At Last)
I have never been a fan of comic riffs based off of live-action television and films. The cartoonists that get hired to draw them seem to get hired for one purpose: to perfectly render the likenesses of the actors from the original. What I love about a television show are so rarely the actors, I…
Luke Cage’s Moment of Truth: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
I watched the pilot for Luke Cage Friday morning. The more I thought about it, the more I hated it. And when it comes down to it, it’s a single question: guys, what are you trying to say?
