Oh Deer by peroroh is a comic from this year’s ShortBox Comics Fair: a unique and innovative digital comics fair where every exhibiting artist debuts a brand-new comic! The website tells us the “aim of the fair is to serve as both a creative impetus for artists to make something new, and to deliver an…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: October 2022
October is here! Spooky SZN has arrived and I am ready to go to a pumpkin patch or apple picking–whatever comes first! This month’s releases have a little something for everyone: slice of life lovers, yuri fans and those who love manga with cute but deadly child characters! Jump in, and take a seat as…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: September 2022
September is here which school is in session! Wishing students of all ages a happy and safe semester or a new school year! I’m not built for summertime anymore, thanks to the heinous duo that is climate change and global warming so I’m happy to start welcoming the colder weather. Sweater weather, soup season and…
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,…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: August 2022
August is here, which means you can work through all your FOMO before Summer’s end, not to mention the stress of not one, but two plagues. This month we’ve got some treats for the mature readers who love smutty goodness, some older manga, and an important update on a translation controversy! Jump in, and take…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: July 2022
July is here which means an even bigger heat wave to press down upon us before Fall arrives! Like many of you, I’m trying to find ways to beat the heat as I wonder why it seems our rights are being rolled back to our grandparents’ times! There’s a variety of titles this month that…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: June 2022
June is is just about over and Pride Month is about to make its exit! Hopefully, this month was less discourse of certain authority figures at Pride Marches in the ongoing conversation of how unsafe these places can be with them attending and more emphasis on the survival of queer, transitioning and trans folks in…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: May 2022
April showers bring May flowers and I hope your manga picks help you weather the storms that climate change is bringing to your door–because climate change is in fact, one day coming for us all. Plenty of superb titles released last month that I scooped up including the second volume of the very swoon-worthy second…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: April 2022
Blessed Spring is here and my seasonal allergies are knocking on my door for my lunch money. And we’re bringing back the Seven Seas Pubwatch! I’ve lost track of what stage in the apocalypse we’re in but you can rest assured of some manga-related news from one of my fave independently owned manga and light…
Roundtable: Creativity, Canvases, and Camaraderie, a Celebration of Akiko Higashimura
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…
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…
REVIEW: Connections and Expectations in Ima Koi: Now I’m In Love
Shojo manga reigns supreme in my heart, always. Reading about young people figuring out how to navigate school, their developing relationships with others, and what it means to be a young adult in whatever day and age they are living with is always worth reading for me. The first volume of Ima Koi: Now I’m…