Masha Zhdanova, Author at WWAC

Review: DPS Only! Brings e-Sports to Tapas

June 16, 2020

DPS Only! is a new exclusive webcomic created by Vel for Tapas Media. Vel, known for their previous webcomic Countdown to Countdown and illustrations for Boom! and the League of Legends EU Championship series, brings their polished technique to the world of e-sports.

Comics, Reviews, Webcomics

How Well Does Always Human Translate from Webcomic to Print?

June 11, 2020

Always Human is a Webtoon comic by Ari North about two girls and their developing relationship in a near-future Australia where body modifications and space travel are part of the everyday normal. The comic updated regularly on Webtoon from October 2015 to June 2017, when it concluded with an ...

Comics, Manga, Reviews

Why you Should Read Haikyu!!

May 13, 2020

With the state of the world being what it is right now, why not escape with a good, long serial manga about friendship and trying your best? If you’ve spent any time around anime fans in the last few years, you’ve probably already heard of Haikyu!!, the anime and manga about a high schooler who ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

Comics Culture: Visiting a Comic Book Store in Russia

May 1, 2020

Back in the Before Times when people could still go outside and interact with each other in close proximity, I went to Russia to visit my relatives, whom I haven’t seen in several years. From December 2018 to early January 2019, I stayed at my aunt and cousin’s apartment in the southwest end of ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Interviews

Kaylee Rowena on The Scent of May Rain

April 27, 2020

The Scent of May Rain is a new graphic novella from Weekend Warrior comics, written by Mark O. Stack and Rae Epstein and drawn by Kaylee Rowena. The story follows the existence of a golem woman for a hundred years, exploring her changing sense of identity and purpose in society through her ...

Comics, Manga, Reviews

Tokyopop (Gay) Manga Review: Still Sick and Don’t Call Me Daddy

April 27, 2020

For the month of April, Tokyopop is making a number of its first volumes free to read digitally. I took the opportunity to read Still Sick by Akashi and Don’t Call Me Daddy by Gorou Kanbe. These two manga fascinated me, particularly in conjunction with each other, as depictions of homophobia ...

Comics, Manga, Reviews

Blue Flag Studies Relationship Geometry

April 22, 2020

Ao no Flag is a monthly manga by KAITO serialized in Jump+ and simulpublished in English on Mangaplus, a high school slice of life romance comic that goes above and beyond the boundaries that classification may imply. Blue Flag’s premise is simple: two boys, popular baseball star Touma ...

Comics, Opinion

What Fence! Didn’t Learn from Sports Manga

April 7, 2020

So, Fence!. This limited series about high school fencing, written by CS Pacat, drawn by Johanna the Mad, and published by Boom! Studios is getting a prose novel tie-in by Sarah Rees Brennan in September 2020, bringing new life to a series that ended in November 2018. But why aren’t more ...

Comics, Essays, Indie & Small Press, Webcomics

What’s a Homestuck Fandom After the Epilogues?

December 26, 2019

Let me tell you about Homestuck. Homestuck is a webcomic, first published by Andrew Hussie in April 2009. The comic consists of static captioned images, animated GIFs, Flash pages with music and animation, and interactive “walk-around Flashes” recalling early-2000s video games. The story ...

Masha Zhdanova

Review: DPS Only! Brings e-Sports to Tapas

How Well Does Always Human Translate from Webcomic to Print?

Why you Should Read Haikyu!!

Comics Culture: Visiting a Comic Book Store in Russia

Kaylee Rowena on The Scent of May Rain

Tokyopop (Gay) Manga Review: Still Sick and Don’t Call Me Daddy

Blue Flag Studies Relationship Geometry

What Fence! Didn’t Learn from Sports Manga

What’s a Homestuck Fandom After the Epilogues?

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