Amanda Vail, Author at WWAC

WWAC at GeekGirlCon!

October 7, 2016

Hey there! Are you in the Seattle area this weekend? Are you coming to GeekGirlCon? If you’re not, then do yourself a favor: clear your schedule. Then come to one of the most supportive, family-friendly, awesome, community-oriented, positive, and awesome cons around. Did I say it was ...

Essays

The Borderline Mother in Netflix’s Stranger Things

August 12, 2016

The Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things intrigued me with the fantastically ’80s splash screen on the Netflix series page and totally hooked me with the title sequence. And then my wife and I watched the entire, too-short eight-episode series in, oh, a weekend. I reveled in the plethora of ...

Comics, Manga

You Be You: a Review of Princess Jellyfish

June 2, 2016

Princess Jellyfish, Volume 1 Mangaka: Akiko Higashimura Translation: Sarah Alys Lindholm; Lettering: Carl Vanstiphout; Editing: Haruko Hashimoto; Kodansha Comics Edition Cover Design: Phil Balsman. Kodansha Comics March, 2016 Disclaimer: This review of Princess Jellyfish is based on a review ...

Comics

Drink Your Comics: Sunstone Three Ways

April 27, 2016

Have you read Sunstone by Stjepan Sejic? Please tell me you have! If you haven’t, I have two reviews for you to read: One by my colleague Wendy and one by me. Now, go, check them out, and then read Sunstone. If you like funny, endearing characters tossed into a story with some spice and ...

Manga, Reviews

Short & Sweet, All-Manga Edition: Barakamon, My Hero Academia, and More!

January 21, 2016

Barakamon, Volume #5 Satsuki Yoshino (mangaka); Krista Shipley & Karie Shipley (translation); Lys Blakeslee (lettering) Yen Press, June 2015 Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by Yen Press. Volume 5 of Barakamon is just as full of childhood hijinks and warm feelings as earlier volumes. ...

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Navigating Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time

January 7, 2016

The Gap of Time: a Novel Jeanette Winterson Hogarth, October 2015 The thing about submerging yourself into Jeanette Winterson’s prose is that you can’t just take the easy road through the story: Winterson demands active participation from her readers. She may cushion you with ethereal sentences ...

Art & Design, Reviews

Art History Shipping: Who Should Get It On With Whom

January 6, 2016

Fandoms love to ship. And by that I mean, they imagine their favorite characters falling in love—whether or not that romance plays out in the story. Which character should be with which other character often leads to fond conglomerated names of the wished-for OTP (One True Pairing). ...

Manga, Reviews

Aldnoah.Zero Volume 1: Space Tragedy in the Making

December 21, 2015

Aldnoah.Zero, Vol. 1 Olympus Knights (story); Pinakes (art); Sheldon Drzka (translation); Brndn Blakeslee, Lys Blakeslee (lettering) Yen Press, Dec 2015 Disclaimer: Yen Press provided a complimentary review copy upon which this article is based. After the first few pages, I wanted to call ...

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Taking the Girl Out of the Kitchen: My Experience with Gender and Cooking

November 11, 2015

Cooking. Gross. So girly. At least, that’s what my young self thought. Cooking meant wearing a frilly apron, maybe even a dress. Cooking meant being clean and neat. Cooking meant being a girl.

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Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials to Hit the Small Screen

November 6, 2015

You know what I love? Good filmic adaptations of books. You know what I don’t get very often? Good filmic adaptations of books. You know what I’m excited about? BBC One tackling Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy.

Amanda Vail

WWAC at GeekGirlCon!

The Borderline Mother in Netflix’s Stranger Things

You Be You: a Review of Princess Jellyfish

Drink Your Comics: Sunstone Three Ways

Short & Sweet, All-Manga Edition: Barakamon, My Hero Academia, and More!

Navigating Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time

Art History Shipping: Who Should Get It On With Whom

Aldnoah.Zero Volume 1: Space Tragedy in the Making

Taking the Girl Out of the Kitchen: My Experience with Gender and Cooking

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials to Hit the Small Screen

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