Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes plays around with a lot of snow. Snowballs, snowmen, snow forts—snow, snow, snow. It is used as both a plot device and a background in many different ways—never sentimental or sappy. Let’s take a look at the main functions of snow for Calvin: Mischief, Artistry, Philosophizing, and Fantasy.
The Thursday Book Beat: Judy Blume Encourages Parents to Help Their Kids Love Books
Welcome back readers! This week, our book news is peppered with some big names doing incredible things. Sci-fi readers and fans of legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin have more than funded a Kickstarter to produce a documentary on Le Guin’s life. Director Arwen Curry is a Le Guin fan herself, and has spent a…
So, Jughead’s Asexual? Let’s Talk About That
The comics corner of the internet recently flipped when it was revealed in Jughead #4, written by Chip Zdarsky and drawn by Erica Henderson, that Jughead is asexual. Two WWAC Staffers, Ginnis Tonik, who cut her comics teeth on Archie comics, and Desiree Rodriguez, a relative newbie to the Archie-verse, sat down to talk about…
Knit Your Comics: Sexy Deadpool Banana Hammock
Some ideas are just too good not to do. I was brainstorming Deadpool-related ideas for February’s Knit Your Comics with our Editor-in-Chief. Since the column comes out just a few days after the movie’s release, and I kind of have had a crush on Ryan Reynolds since Blade: Trinity, and I have watched many a…
Evil Emperor Penguin: Batman and Farts vs. Jurassic Park
Evil Emperor Penguin Laura Ellen Anderson The Phoenix Presents, David Fickling Books The Phoenix weekly comic is published at a size comparable with the average magazine-shelf fare. David Fickling Books’ collected editions of Phoenix strips are put out at a smaller size, more like a single-issue comic. On the whole, this is greatly to their…
The Present (and Future) of Iris West
I had no plans to write about the depiction of Iris West on The Flash because I thought my grumbling tweets were enough and that other people who were more moved by it could take it on. I didn’t think I needed to be the person, because to be honest, the fun of the show…
Tell Me a Story: Short Audiobook Reviews
Hausfrau Jill Alexander Essbaum Narrated by: Mozhan Maron Random House Audio March 17, 2015 Anna is a housewife. A bored housewife. She feels alone in a foreign country where she doesn’t speak the language. Her husband’s friends are her whole social circle. She even feels distant from her children at times. She feels as though…
Eleven Year Old Sasha Matthews Could Teach You A Thing Or Two About Making Comics
Want to make and publish your own comic? Eleven year old Sasha Matthews has all the answers. Well, maybe not all the answers, but this young lady certainly has a plan and, with the support of her parents, has already published two comics of her own and has her own publishing company, Rumble Comics. Her…
Laser Kittens: An Interview with Cheyenne Wall-Grimes
Although I had met Cheyenne Wall-Grimes a time or two before, it was really my experience with her at Metatopia, a gaming convention for designers, that told me the kind of person she was. It was my first time attending, and I was really not sure about this whole designer business. I was probably trying…
Buying Flowers for Girls: The Importance of Romantic Friendships
Like most holidays in America, Valentine’s Day has come to stand in for the entire month of February. While romantic love is all good and well (as are cheap chocolates and roses), WWAC Lifestyle is celebrating love of the platonic variety (and the many variations therein) this month. We started with Catie Coleman’s tips on how…
Misty Knight and the Case of the Ridiculous Males: Bra Holster Hell
Alright, you got breasts? Then you don’t need to read this (unless: catharsis?). Not have’em? Sit down and listen. L-i-s-t-e-n. Especially you, Joe Bennet, Nick Spencer, Tom Brevoort. For this is a problem from Feb 3rd’s Captain America: Sam Wilson #6. This is an atrocious and terrible character design. It’s for a character with a…
Happy Midnighter Week! Get a Free Copy of Midnighter: Out from WWAC!
Hello Midnighter fans, Starting February 17th, 12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, Women Write About Comics will be giving away 5 free copies of Midnighter Vol. 1: Out by Steve Orlando and ACO. To enter the giveaway, on February 17th you can: Visit our rafflecopter! Tweet this message at the @MidnighterWeek twitter account: “This #Midnighter fan wants…
