Jenna Ledford, Author at WWAC

Keeping Jem Outrageous: A Listicle

July 24, 2017

Kelly Thompson, Sophie Campbell, and M. Victoria Robado’s refreshing, yet still totally outrageous, comic reboot of the 1980s Jem & the Holograms television series ended with issue #26 on June 14 of this year. The Jem comic has been a huge hit with the 80’s babies, such as myself, that ...

Reviews

The Serial Killer Intrigue of Dark Angel [Review]

June 2, 2017

Dark Angel Gwyneth Hughes (writer), Brian Percival (director) Joanna Froggatt, Alun Armstrong, Jonas Armstrong (cast) ITV Studios 2016

Comics, Reviews

Review: Six Days in Cincinnati

May 31, 2017

Six Days in Cincinnati Dan Mendez Moore (writer & illustrator), Matt Gouck (cover artist) Microcosm Publishing June 2017 Six Days in Cincinnati was reviewed using an advanced reader copy provided by Microcosm Publishing. Originally published as Mark Twain Was Right: The 2001 Cincinnati ...

Comics, Reviews

Review: What Parsifal Saw

May 23, 2017

What Parsifal Saw Ron Rege Jr. (Writer & Artist) Fantagraphics Books March 2017 Fantagraphics provided a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. In his previous collected work, Cartoon Utopia, Ron Rege Jr. suggested that readers read the book like a textbook. Not necessarily in ...

Roundtables

Reading and Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale

April 28, 2017

Many of us have been heavily anticipating Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss in what could be her next great television role since she played the ambitious Peggy Olsen on Mad Men. Several of us at WWAC (and our friends) ...

Roundtables

How Yuri!!! On Ice Reawakened Figure Skating Fandom In Us

April 2, 2017

Yuri!!! On Ice is a surprise hit not only for its creators, but for its fans, both actual figure skaters and figure skating fans alike. Elite figure skaters have been showing their YOI love by taking to Twitter. For three ’90s figure skating fans, YOI triggered a lot of nostalgic and new ...

Essays

Riverdale Fashion Report: Power-à-Porter

March 5, 2017

Fashion has a significant history in the Archie-verse. Straddling the line between slice of life and romance comics, Archie Comics have frequently featured the fashion spreads or pin-up pages of romance comics. Even as romance comics faded in popularity, Archie Comics long carried on the ...

Reviews

Review: Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook

February 3, 2017

Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook Ziggy Marley & Family Akashic Books October 2016 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: cookbooks are like porn for me with their glossy pictures of beautifully arranged food that never quite turns out looking so pretty. You just have to accept from the ...

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Pop’s Diner: 6 Snack Pairings for the Riverdale Premiere

January 26, 2017

Riverdale, the strange new Archie-comics-meets-Twin-Peaks show debuts tonight on The CW at 9 PM. And lifetime Archie-fan Laura Harcourt, will be live tweeting it for us at @womenonocomics! While Archie has been busily rebooting their classic comics for a YA, romance-loving readership, ...

Comics, Roundtables

Reading Art Speigelman’s Maus In 2017: A Roundtable

January 6, 2017

Maus by Art Spiegelman is one of those comics that’s brought up again and again, and not just by people within comics communities. August of 2016 was the 30th anniversary of the Pantheon collected edition of volume one, and 2017 will mark 25 years since it won the Pulitzer Prize. This ...

Jenna Ledford

Keeping Jem Outrageous: A Listicle

The Serial Killer Intrigue of Dark Angel [Review]

Review: Six Days in Cincinnati

Review: What Parsifal Saw

Reading and Rereading The Handmaid’s Tale

How Yuri!!! On Ice Reawakened Figure Skating Fandom In Us

Riverdale Fashion Report: Power-à-Porter

Review: Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook

Pop’s Diner: 6 Snack Pairings for the Riverdale Premiere

Reading Art Speigelman’s Maus In 2017: A Roundtable

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