As 2021 draws to a close, we need to sit back, reflect, and answer that all-important question: What were the best comic books of the year? We asked our writers and assembled a weird and wild list of comic books starring mermaids, barbarians, gods, mutants, and even a Green Lantern. As different as they may…
Cover Girl: The Amazing Spider-Man #74
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new or recent and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Andrea Ayres, Nola Pfau, and Wendy Browne discuss the cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #74.
INTERVIEW: Jude Doyle Births a Beautiful Rage Baby in Maw
Maw does not want you to feel good. It pokes. It prods. It disintegrates the corporate-inspired Goop kind of feminism. CW: This review and interview mention sexual assault, PTSD, and gendered violence.
Comic-Con@Home: Tor Teen Says the Trope Does not Apply
Tor Teen: Who Runs the World: Stories of Female Empowerment: The future of SFF is feminist AF. Join your favorite Tor Teen YA authors Bethany C. Morrow (A Chorus Rises), Elayne Audrey Becker (Forestborn), Susan Dennard (Witchshadow), Sarah Henning (The Queen Will Betray You), and Shannon Price (The Endless Skies) as they discuss crafting female-driven…
Comic-Con@Home: API and AAPI Creators Say Sit Down, Be Humble
API & AAPI Creators: The Original Comics Pioneers: Comics creators from the API/AAPI community talk about their deeply rooted history in the comics medium, how they are changing the industry in the modern era, and discuss upcoming projects guaranteed to enthrall comics fans. An audience Q&A session will make time for questions from librarians and educators…
REVIEW: Not the FUTURE We Want, the One We Get
Sometimes you pick up a book knowing full well how it will end. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I picked up the science fiction graphic novel FUTURE, but that didn’t stop me from loving the journey. FUTURE is about the last astronaut on Earth, Murray Mielniczuk, and her wife Kay. Murray…
WWAC’s Best Big Press Comics of 2020!
2020 was a turbulent year for the comics industry, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting publishing schedules and closing direct market shops (sometimes permanently). Despite this chaos, a slew of excellent comics were published this year, from fantastic first issues to well-earned (if heartbreaking) endings. Selected by our contributors and featuring heroes, humor, and horror, these…
Comics Academe: 2020 in Review
To close out 2020, Comics Academe asked contributors to write about the conferences, articles, and books that had the biggest impact on them. They attended virtual conferences and comic cons and read, wrote, and were recognized for groundbreaking work in and around comics studies.
Welcome to the Church of DC’s FanDome
On August 22 and September 12 we experienced the majesty of DC FanDome, an event billed as a ‘first-of-its-kind virtual experience for DC superfans’. Sorry, no regular fans allowed! This is for the true believers. This is all about the power of the fan, or is it just a way to invoke a false sense…
REVIEW: Giga #1 is a Gorgeous, Simmering Pot of Tension
Giga #1 steams with the tension of a world marred by violence and war. The wars have been fought for so long, people can’t remember exactly how they started and can’t imagine what it’d be like to have them stop. I wasn’t sure a mech-style Gundam-esque comic was going to my thing but it is…