Inherent Vice Director: Paul Thomas Anderson IAC Films Ghoulardi Film Company January 9, 2015 Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, The Master), based on a book by Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow), starring a few of my sometimes-crushes (Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson), and centered on a plotline seeped…
Bored? Hungover? Soothe Yourself with Some Quick Comic Reads
Happy 2015! Woo woo! *glitter toss* *kazoo noises* Oh- sorry. You’re hungover, aren’t you? Well, I guess I have a few things that might help you pass the day in peace. In the dark. Under a blanket. With dual carafes of coffee and water. Things like — comics! Well, editorial cartoons and comic strips. Let’s…
Ringing In the New Year In Mega-City One
It’s the New Year in 2000AD’s Mega-City One. What will our intrepid WWAC staff wear to prepare for the, er, festivities? Let’s find out! Kelly: New Year’s Eve, Mega-City One: SJS (Sexy Judicial Squad) Just because the future is grim doesn’t mean we can’t dress to kill. Sometimes literally. We know your secrets and we look…
Announcing Post Comics: I Mail, You Review
Starting in January, I’m taking Reviews Roulette to the people. Here’s how it works: You trust me with your mailing address and your very soul. I send you a comic in the mail. Then you send me back a review, which I will publish on here, under Post Comics. Bonus points for mailing me back…
What You Read: Our Top 20 Posts of 2014 [GIFs]
Reviews, essays, a couple of top tens, and tons of opinions, these are the top twenty, most read WWAC articles of 2014. This list is more diverse in authorship and topic than last year’s, with several of our newer writers cracking the top ten — and one, the top five. Among them are some of…
“Percy Jackson could be Homer.”
Recommended Listening: On this week’s episode of CBC’s The Sunday Edition, Michael Enright interviewed literary historian, Adam Nicholoson. His new book, The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters, argues that the Illiad is, well, the best thing ever, and that Homer continues to be of enormous cultural importance. Obvs, Adam! This segment is worth a listen…
Multifarious
Haunting Women I first saw Carly Janine Mazur’s illustrations in the pages of Nightmare Magazine. She’s a Connecticut based artist who works primarily in oils and acrylic, and her work is definitely on the dark and haunting side. Similarly, Craww’s work features horned figures, birds, and women’s faces tilting upwards. Much of the shapes happen organically…
R/W: Resolve, Rethink, and Write [GIFs]
My deepest regret for 2014 is that I spent so little time writing. Instead, I focused on growing the site — worth the attention, obviously, and it did pay off. But I’ve been wanting to get back into a rhythm of writing substantively, regularly, and without agony. Then Angel tweeted about building a personal blog calendar and whoa — whoa,…
Happy Birthday WWAC: <3 Our Fellow Fake Geek Girls!
Three years ago I opened the first round of the Women Write About Comics Blog Carnival with this post. It wasn’t until June of 2012 that we transitioned from being carnival hub to an actual blog. This interview I did with romance writer and comics blogger (Geek Mom) Corrina Lawson, kicking off a series of…
R/W: The Real and the Robotic
What does it mean to write a realistic novel? Or a realistic screenplay? Does psychological realism depend on the use of one or another sets of literary tricks? Does it feel real — is that the ultimate test? Some weeks ago now, a famous writer said that Shakespeare sucks because his work is unrealistic and…
[TW] Merry Scary Christmas: Black Christmas
Black Christmas (aka Silent Night, Evil Night, aka Stranger in the House) Directed by Bob Clark Starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Marian Waldman and John Saxon R, 98 1974 Someone watches a sorority house Christmas party from outside. The party is muted through the glass, but still lively. The girls lovely and energetic….
Building Community: MariNaomi on Community, Necessity, and Forgiveness
MariNaomi is an indie cartoonist and artist specializing in memoir. When we spoke, she was touring her latest book, Dragon’s Breath and Other Stories. The book collects a series of stories, first published on the Rumpus as Smoke In Your Eyes. The book “explores a wide spectrum of topics including youthful rebellion, mortality, disillusionment and compassion.”…