Bubble, the graphic novel adaptation of the Maximum Fun podcast, feels a lot like fanfiction. I don’t mean that to denigrate fanfiction, nor necessarily even Bubble. If you’re the audience for it, you’re the audience for it, and as it turns out, I am most definitely not the audience.
TIFF 2022 Review: Subtraction Will Have You Doing Several Double Takes
In the psychological thriller Subtraction, Farzaneh (Taraneh Alidoosti) and Jalal (Navid Mohammadzadeh) are living a painfully ordinary life when they encounter the extraordinary—their doppelgängers.
VIZ Pubwatch: September 2022
It’s time for many students to go back to school, and for me to write another VIZ Media Pubwatch! This month we’re following up on some series and creators covered in Pubwatches past, including Spy x Family and Ghost Reaper Girl. But first, the news!
REVIEW: Nona the Ninth Nestles You Nicely in a Nightmare
In Nona the Ninth, the third book in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, readers get a ton of backstory about how this necromantic space empire came to be. We also get to spend a lot more time with some of the characters who had been secondary in earlier books. Like Gideon and Harrow,…
REVIEW: Himawari House Finds a Home in Cross-Cultural Friendship
Himawari House by Harmony Becker (They Called Us Enemy) is slice-of-life diaspora fiction that revolves around the sense of home, belonging, and otherness experienced by three young women living in Japan. Having decided to take a gap year between high school and college, 18-year-old Nao moves into the Himawari share house in Tokyo, where she…
Previously on Comics: The Queen Is Dead
This week we are once again sad to report another loss to our community, underground cartoonist Diane Noomin. Best known for her character DiDi Glitz and editing the Twisted Sisters anthology of women cartoonists, Noomin was a pioneer with a career spanning 6 decades. We also said goodbye to Eric Jones, who passed unexpectedly in…
[PREVIEW] ПЕРЕМОГА: Victory for Ukraine
There’s a lot going on in the world right now, and one of those things is still the Russian attack on Ukraine. ПЕРЕМОГА: Victory for Ukraine is a full-color graphic novel by Ukrainian writers and illustrators who have come together to raise their voice. With the digital version released on August 24 — Ukraine’s Indepence…
REVIEW: Disney Princesses: Beyond the Tiara Is Just a Little Too Commercial
Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara tells you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about how Disney Princesses became such a cultural force in American life. The book promises to explore the whys and hows of Walt Disney’s decision to make Snow White, to how Anna and Elsa evolved out of The Snow Queen. It’s a…
INTERVIEW: A History Lesson on The Comic Convention With Mathew Klickstein
Dragon Con. NY Comic-Con. Flame Con. SDCC. The comic convention as juggernaut may seem like a recent occurrence, but the journey to get there stretches back five decades. To understand the present (and what the future may hold), we must look to the past. Pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein’s new book, See You At San…
REVIEW: “Box of Light” Is Creepy but Charming
As noted in last month’s Seven Seas Pubwatch, Box of Light stood out to me as something spooky for the supernatural lovers. This manga follows the nights of a sleepy convenience store at the crossroads between life and death. With story and art by Seiko Erisawa, translation by Daniel Komen, and lettering by Brendon Hull,…
INTERVIEW: Editor Alberto Rayo Helps Spin a Tale in The Lizard Prince
The Lizard Prince and Other South American Stories is the sixth in Iron Circus’ crowd-funded volumes of Cautionary Fables and Fairytales, and is also the last of the series, which began in 2017. Each volume focuses on a different region of the world, bringing together cartoonists, artist, and writers to showcase their takes on regional…
Previously on Comics: A Win for Gender Queer but the Fight Continues
Hello dearest WWAC readers. It’s time for another week (and one day) comics news roundup. If this were a television series, it’d be like Last Week Tonight, but you know, for comics. The big news from the past week is the Virginia Beach Circuit Court dismissing the case against the graphic novel Gender Queer: A…
