Over at Book Riot, they’ve rounded up some literary journals designed for e-readers. Woo! But no Symbolia? Shame! New issue out right now. Go. Gooooo. — Megan
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Apocalypse Fiction — WWAC Roundtable
This week the women of WWAC talked apocalypse fiction. What’s it all about? Why are we so fascinated by it? Megan P, Annie, Wendy, Claire, Jamie, Brenda, and Laura all chimed in. Content Note: Frank discussion of trauma, violence, disaster and apocalypse prepping, end times fundamentalism, and murder.
Party Post!
This party is starting early and going late — the staff will be GIFing it up until Sunday night — the way all the best parties do, so join us in a for a marathon safe(ish) space party post. What’s a SSPP, you ask? I’m so happy you did ask, friends — it’s downtime, a…
Multifarious: How to Comic
A lot of people were talking about how to comic this week, or linking to older conversations about how to comic. So that’s what we’re sharing with you today.
Fail Better: Trigger Warnings — Use Them, Believe in Them
Trigger Warning: This post discusses sexual abuse, depression, and state violence. When I was younger and a much bigger asshole than I am now, I used to scratch my head at trigger warnings. I don’t now. It’s not a complicated issue — be kind, use trigger warnings; no downside.
I’m Loving: Teen Dog! Maybe? We’re conflicted.
What is a teen dog? What is this comic? What is this press release that has found its way into my inbox? Teen. Dog. “HE’S THE COOLEST CAT IN TOWN. EXCEPT HE’S A DOG. TEEN DOG!” is how the pitch for BOOM! Studios’ latest starts. A new BOOM! Box ongoing, Teen Dog is written and illustrated…
Roundtable: Book Fans, Show Fans, Race, and Rape in Game of Thrones
In one of our sprawling internal email debates, it came out that WWAC staffers represent a good cross section of Game of Thrones viewers and that feelings were had by many. We decided to bring that conversation into the light for you all here — some of us are passionate book fans, some of us…
Ends and Means: The Politics of Superheroes With Dirty Hands
Last year Ashley wrote an essay for us called Snap His Neck! I return to it from time to time. Violence is something you can’t get away from if you’re at all interested in superhero comics. Superhero violence, as cartoonish and sometimes antisocial as it can be, isn’t interesting to me on its own. I’m…
Amazon Calls for Many Loyal Customers to Join a Letter Campaign, Except…
…Amazon doesn’t have brand-loyal customers. It has price-loyal and convenience-loyal customers. Oops. But that may be enough to get some action going. We’ll see. Today a letter written by best-selling author, Douglas Preston, and signed by 908 writers from the US, Canada, Britain and beyond, will run in the Sunday New York Times. In it,…
R/W: N Is for No Surviiiiivors!
Fun. That’s a thing. A thing that started in the 1680s as a verb, meaning to cheat or trick. “Are you having fun with me?” The word is of uncertain origin — how like fun — but Online Etymology and Google suggest that it comes from the Middle English fon, which means to be a…
Multifarious: The Sound of Weeping — How Visual Art Communicates
The Sound of Weeping Art is often thought about in very different terms to other sorts of communication, which is a loss. For example, even in comics criticism, people (us, others) often forget to directly mention the images which make up the telling of the story. The art will have had an impact on the…
