Welcome to Cover Girl! For this feature, 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, Masha Zhdanova, Kayleigh Hearn, Kat Overland, Jenna Ledford, and Emily Lauer talk about the cover of Snotgirl #16 by series co-creator Leslie Hung!
REVIEW: Werewolf By Night: Blood Hunt #1 Lives Up to the Name
In one of the bloodiest hunts yet, Jake Gomez finds himself ensnared in two types of undead villainy — can Werewolf By Night tame his savage beast, save his friends, and defeat a villain you don’t remember from 1973?
REVIEW: 40 Years of Scream! Has the Ghouls
2000AD has packaged up all 15 issues of IPC Magazine’s short-run anthology comic for its 40th anniversary in one heavy tome. Full of work from reliable 2000AD contributors, this mostly black-and-white book is enough to make you Scream!
WWAC’s Favorite Small Press Comics of 2023!
It’s MarchApril?? Well, it’s never a bad time to read a list of our favorite comics from small presses, indie presses, and creators who self-publish! Specifically favorites — best-of lists promise a lot, and we’d rather just let you know what we loved. So grab a comic and hang out in that nice spring weather.
WWAC’S Favorite Manga of 2023
WWAC editors and contributors read a lot of different manga last year, from indie publishers like Glacier Bay Books to heavy hitters like VIZ and Kodansha. We read romance, horror, slice-of-life, autobiography… And we’ve managed to narrow down our list to our very favorite manga of 2023, so here they are!
ROUNDTABLE: The Hellfire Gala 2023 Afterparty Autopsy!
Welcome to WWAC’s Hellfire Gala 2023 roundup! The third annual Hellfire Gala was a party to die for, and one of the most shocking comic books of 2023. The House of X fell harder than Jason Derulo falling down the stairs at the Met Gala, but with the new X-Men status quo now well underway,…
Cover Girl – Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #1
Welcome to Cover Girl! For this feature, 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, Kat Overland, Carrie McClain, Masha Zhdanova, Nola Pfau, and Kayleigh Hearn discuss the Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #1 variant cover by Peach Momoko.
Favorite Small Press Books of 2022
Okay so maybe the end of January/beginning of February is pushing it in terms of when to drop a ‘best of 2022’ list, BUT. Now is the time to crack into one of these recommendations — the holidays are over, Christmas is put away, and all you have to do is hibernate until spring. The…
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2022
2022 was a wild ride for comic book fans, taking readers from the center of the Earth to mutant cities on Mars. Narrowing down our favorite big press comics of the year was a monumental task, but with help from Laila Starr and Nubia, Queen of the Amazons, we were up to the challenge. Just…
Ignatz Award Winners 2022
While your intrepid WWAC correspondents were too tired to make it to the 9pm award show, we can still let you know which books won the prestigious brick Saturday night. The Ignatz Awards moved to online voting when the pandemic hit and continued it for this year’s awards, meaning that the pool of voters is…
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…
2022 Eisners: And the Award Goes To….
THREEPEAT BABY!!!! She’s once, twice, three times an Eisner Award-winning lady… Did somebody say…hat trick Eisners? Not that we’re excited over here or anything. Well, the people on the west coast are. The other time zones were sadly asleep to glory in our awesomeness, but you know what? That’s okay. Because you amazing, incredible, Eisner…