The last time we met, Strangers in Paradise was brought up as a cornerstone of comics, albeit a cornerstone weathered to the point of being riddled with holes. We started discussing some of the issues present in the series, including the toxic nature of Katchoo’s character arc. Unfortunately, once you hit a certain word count for your…
Rosie’s Dynamite Round Up: August 2017
Well hello, comic book fans, it’s Rosie here to collect up all the most important and up-to-date Dynamite Entertainment comics news. We here at Women Write About Comics are dedicated to unpacking the complex parts of the industry and unwrapping the underwhelming gift that is comics so that we can all enjoy/despair about it together….
Emojiam Combines The Beauty of Emojis With The Challenge of Quick Game Design
Emojiam has a simple premise: make a game in seven days based on a design document written in emojis. Participants were free to interpret the document as they wished, skipping some sections if desired, so long as the game was in some way inspired by the document.
Triangulating Looks: Introducing Fashion
Because we live life on hard mode, we naturally decided to use column #2 to dig into the most difficult to define point on our triangle: fashion. In simplest terms, we’re defining fashion as building designs from the ground up rather than duplicating or reworking real world outfits. That doesn’t mean runway versus rack, though!…
Book Beat – Man Booker Longlist and Toronto Desi Comic Book Artist
Hi book lovers! Ashley here! I have been so busy this past week. The office where I work is hosting a group of Japanese youth for a knowledge exchange excursion! They are teaching me a lot about their favourite manga! A lot happened in the book world, so let’s get caught up together!
Red Death and Murder Machines, First Look At Dark Knights
On September 20th, the Dark Multiverse invades. As a tie-in with DC event Metal, there will be seven one-shot comics starring seven different twisted versions of Batman. Why? Why not, man. DC has released the covers to the first two issues, both drawn by Jason Fabok and Brad Anderson, who will also be drawing the other…
Immortal Souls: Queer Witch Comics from Power & Magic Press
Joamette Gil is on fire. Hot on the heels of Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology, Power & Magic Press is back with a new anthology called Immortal Souls (The Next Queer Witch Comics Anthology). The response to Gil’s previous call for submissions was overwhelming, and not every piece could be included in the original…
Dream Daddies: Big Two Edition
Dream Daddy, the daddy dating simulator that has taken the internet and our very own contributors by storm, has gotten us thinking… who are the dream daddies of Marvel and DC? If there was a daddy dating simulator straight from the pages of our favourite big two comics who would it star? Well—we here at…
52 Facts About DC, By The Numbers: July 19, 2017
Or However Many I Feel Like, And Some Might Not Be Facts Hi! I’m Annie Blitzen, and I’ll be doing a weekly round-up of about half of that week’s DC Comics. Corinne McCreery will be covering the other half. It’s a lot of books to cover, so I’ll be breaking down the first five pages…
Beastly BFFs: Okja’s Uneven Parable of Friendship
Okja Director/Screenwriter: Bong Joon-Ho Cast: Ahn Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yuen, Lily Collins Netflix June 28, 2017 Bong Joon-Ho brings his bold style to Okja, creating a fun romp that’s a mashup of a children’s fable and an anti-corporate farming manifesto, mixed in with a slight edge of surrealism.
Sparks and Tarts Review Edition: The Sumage Solution
The Sumage Solution (San Andreas Shifters #1) G.L. Carriger Gail Carriger, LLC July 18,2017 Disclaimer: A copy of this book was provided by the publisher for an honest review.
Women Making Comics: Sitting Down With Ann Nocenti At SDCC
As a woman, growing up as a comics fan, you’re often told that you’re in some kind of minority, that women don’t read (or write about) comics, and have certainly never MADE comics. This weird ahistorical version of things is a relatively recent one, with people of all genders enjoying newsstand comics and creating them since…