We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out!
WWAC Reads Books! Supernatural Gender Edition
Cozying down into fall, we here at WWAC have been indulging both in books with really interesting things to say about gender, and as usual, books across the speculative fiction spectrum. Everything from horror stories to sweet, queer retellings of Arthuriana, we’re enjoying it all!
REVIEWS: ShortBox Comics Fair Favorites for 2024
Comics publisher ShortBox may have folded this year, but Zainab Akhtar’s annual ShortBox Comics Fair still has a sparkling present and future. Open for October, a fabulously curated collection of digital indie works are for sale online. Featuring a ton of creators, some established and some just starting out, it’s a grab bag of wonderful…
REVIEW: Loving, Ohio Exposes the Monsters of a Small-Town Cult
Sloane is a high school senior in Loving, Ohio, a small town that seems perfectly normal from the outside. As someone who’s spent her entire life in Loving, however, Sloane is uncomfortably familiar with a hidden facet of the town that’s not a secret to its residents. Loving is the center of a new religious…
REVIEW: HoverGirls Shines with Sparkling Shojo Magic
In the first American release of Power Rangers in 1993, the producers took the original Japanese footage and inserted it between scenes of American actors, claiming the action was set in Los Angeles. Even as a child, this mixture felt slightly strange to me, yet I still couldn’t help but wonder what one of my…
WWAC Reads Books: Summer Lounging Edition
Deep into the summer, we here at WWAC are combatting high temperatures by balancing our reading between romances, teens pushing boundaries, and thoughtful nonfiction. Any book can be a beach read if you bring it to the beach!
ESSAY: Nature and War Memory in Machiko Kyō’s Cocoon
Machiko Kyō’s 2011 graphic novel Cocoon tells a harrowing story based on the historical circumstances of a group of teenage girls who died in Okinawa during the Pacific War. An animated adaptation of Cocoon is scheduled to be released in Summer 2025, bringing this tragic chapter of Japanese history to a new generation. Although Cocoon…
LISTICLE: Food and Fantasy Manga for Fans of Delicious in Dungeon
Hello, hello! Have you been watching that hot new anime on Netflix lately? Yes you have. Delicious in Dungeon is all over everyone’s social media feeds like it’s the last season of Succession. And it looks like a lot of people were inspired by Studio Trigger’s tasty adaptation to check out the manga by Ryoko…
WWAC Reads Books: Genre-Busting Edition
This Spring, we at WWAC are reading everything from lyrical fairy tale retellings to sob-fest memoirs, to Absolute Classics. Join us for the ride!
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 Reads Books! Entering our Dragon Era Edition
Here at WWAC we are starting off our 2024 right, and really committing to reading in the Year of the Dragon with a wide variety of terrific books. Christa digs into A Woman is No Man, I read a couple upcoming speculative fiction titles by Ann Leckie and Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alenka enjoys some YA horror…
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!