Akiko Higashimura is a manga legend. Since her debut in 1999, she’s been publishing award-winning hit comic after award-winning hit comic (including Princess Jellyfish, Blank Canvas, and Tokyo Tarareba Girls) and has now branched out to Webtoons in addition to serialized print manga. Paulina Przystupa got the WWAC crew together to discuss her long and…
INTERVIEW: Lela Lee Is Back With Angry Little Asian Girl: Moments with My Mother
After 12 years, writer and illustrator Lela Lee returns with a new collection of Angry Little Asian Girl comics. Adding to the six previous books, along with an animated series, Angry Little Asian Girl: Moments with My Mother lets us in on the frustrations, misinterpretations, and expectations that come with navigating life as a grade-school…
INTERVIEW: Otava Heikkilä Breaks The Silence on Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord
Otava Heikkilä’s Letters for Lucardo is a delightful queer erotic horror comic that’s been crowdfunding volumes since 2016. It’s a must-read for fans of vampire fiction as a whole, and especially fans of the queer subtext found in stories like Interview With The Vampire; if you liked that film, imagine a comic where the queerness is much…
INTERVIEW: Emmett Hobbes on Royale and Webtoon
Emmett Hobbes is a prolific cartoonist and writer who is known for his work on the Rick and Morty comics and the graphic novel My Riot with Rick Spears. Last month, his Webtoon Original, Royale, launched on the platform, introducing readers to a queer, historical, surrealistic heist drama, with Hank Jones’s colors adding extra vibrancy…
Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 6: Vampires on the German Stage
Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.
INTERVIEW: BHP Comics’ Gary Chudleigh and Sha Nazir on Their Bold New Universe
Glasgow, Scotland-based indie publishing house BHP Comics is boldly stepping into a new universe of exciting new one-shot comics, crowdfunding now on Kickstarter. With each book promising its own jam-packed adventures with exciting and unique characters — including Britain’s first south-Asian superhero — the Bold Universe Collection then combines to tell a bigger story within a…
REVIEW: Arrive In My Hands: Queer Erotic Comics is Poetic Magic
In recent years, indie comic readers have been gifted with more and more works, from short autobiographical comics to webcomics and zines to anthologies with the erotic in mind. More comics and comic-related reading material crowdfunded, printed out for conventions, and uploaded online exploring not just queer identities but queer desire and queer liberation. This…
