Aisha, played by Anna Diop (Titans, Us) takes a job as a nanny in the hopes of earning enough money to bring her son from Senegal to America. But just when it seems that she’s close to reuniting with him, unexplained incidents make her question her surroundings.
REVIEW: Monotone Blue is Far From Monotonous
Nagabe is a mangaka known for his elegant and haunting fantasy manga series The Girl from the Other Side and its many spinoffs. In Monotone Blue, Nagabe tries his hand at a different setting and world to explore a romance developing between an anthropomorphic cat and his new lizard classmate.
Archie Comics Pubwatch: September 2022
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of September! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, a new title is announced for December, two titles sell out at a publishing level, new exclusive covers, and much more!
INTERVIEW: Melanie Gillman Chats About Craving Queer Community in Other Ever Afters
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales collects Melanie Gillman’s fairy tale comics in their distinctive lush colored pencil art. The stories are diverse, poignant, and progressive, and I was thrilled to sit down with Melanie Gillman over Zoom recently and ask all kinds of questions about fairy tales, queerness, and their intersections.
TIFF 2022 Review: The Woman King Is as Epic an Action Film as it Gets!
An all-female regiment of elite warriors protects their land from invaders in The Woman King. But when a nearby kingdom gathers strength, a new group of candidates is tasked with training for the Agojie. Among them is a young, determined warrior who will make the Agojie leadership question their methods.
Ignatz Award Winners 2022
While your intrepid WWAC correspondents were too tired to make it to the 9pm award show, we can still let you know which books won the prestigious brick Saturday night. The Ignatz Awards moved to online voting when the pandemic hit and continued it for this year’s awards, meaning that the pool of voters is…
INTERVIEW: Filipa Estrela Explores Meandering Realms
Filipa Estrela is currently crowdfunding the book Meandering Realms: An Anthology of Unconventional Materials Comics, which features short comics by a number of creators in a dizzying array of materials: everything from needlefelting to black and white photographs of facepaint. The stories told are similarly diverse, with some quiet slice of life and some alien…
2022 Ignyte Awards: P. Djèlí Clark, Eden Royce and Darcie Little Badger Amongst Winners
The annual Ignyte Awards, a prize handed out by FIYAHCON to celebrate diverse voices in fantasy and science fiction, saw their third iteration this Saturday.
Previously on Comics: Webtoon Drama Highlights Pay Disparity for Creators
Hello and welcome to another Previously on Comics! Kate here, catching up with the rest of you on everything that’s been going on this week. I had movers come on Sunday and had to skip Rose City Comic Con and it feels like this past week was just a blur. Happy SPX to everyone who…
TIFF 2022 Review: The Hummingbird Starts Off Buzzing but Goes on Too Long
Eschewing standard chronology, The Hummingbird tells the story of Marco Carrera (Pierfrancesco Favino), from his birth to his death, and all the extraordinary people and circumstances he encounters in between.
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: August/September 2022
The calendar still says summer for a few more weeks. But there’s a chill in the air, Pumpkin Spice everything is back on shelves, and kids are back in school. Onward to autumn! Our latest Titan PUBWATCH installment continues our look at Doctor Who: Origins with a double dose of reviews and more of the adventures of…
REVIEW: The Lover of Everyone in the World is a Brilliant Meditation on Empathy
The Lover of Everyone in the World feels like a thought experiment – what would it be like to feel real, romantic love for every person on earth? What would it mean to be in that many relationships, and to feel that much real love for such a wide variety of people? How would it…
