XX-Men: The Failures of Brian Wood’s All-Woman X-Men Osvalda Oyola writes, There is no effort in this “new” series to establish the characters, but even worse there is no effort to establish or explain why this particular iteration of X-Men…X-Women…exists. It seems like these characters just happen to be the ones who are around when…
TW: Bryan Singer Accused of 1999 Rape and Assault
TW: Graphic descriptions of rape, assault, and child exploitation. A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that X-Men director Bryan Singer, along with convicted sex offender Marc Collins-Rector, physically and sexually abused a teenage boy over a period of time in 1999, in Los Angeles and Hawaii. Firearms, drugs, and alcohol are said to have been involved. Collins-Rector…
Reading Diaries: Much Ado About YA, and Some Top Five Bad Books
When last we spoke I was reading Crazy Town. I’m ashamed to say that between work and school, I just didn’t get through it. I recently picked up an interesting book on a research trip to a bookstore (book cover research, aw yeah!). Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Jean-Paul…
Call for essays: Batwomen75
Last year we honoured Lois Lane’s 75th birthday with a series of essays from our staff and some awesome guests. This year, we’re honouring the girls and women of the Batbooks! (Don’t worry, Catwoman will get her own 75th birthday party next year.) Are you a Batfan? A women-of-the-Batbooks fan? Do you have a great idea…
Freedom! Masculinity! Anxiety! 300: Rise of An Empire Is Unsurprisingly Dick Centric and Decidedly American
If 300 was about dicks, 300: Rise of an Empire is about our freedom to swing them. The sequel comes nine years after 300 wowed young white men everywhere with CGI, slow mo, and speeches, and tries to recreate that “winning” formula. Its action is roughly contiguous to 300‘s, retelling naval and political clashes leading…
Archie Will Die–What Does It Mean?
This week, Archie Comics announced that its star character, musician, ladies man, goofus, and sometime superhero, is slated to die in an upcoming story. The death, in Life With Archie #36, is neatly timed to come on Archie Comics’ 75th anniversary. Unlike the revolving door that governs mortality in superhero comics, in Archie Comics’ books,…
News & Things: All commentary, all the time.
Two Editors, One Novelist How Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue and her Canadian and American editors all work together. 13 Webcomics That Will Make You Smarter io9 recommends thirteen educational (sometimes unintentionally so) webcomics. Should A Black Writer Write White Characters? Would you be contributing to oppression? Invisibility? Judged harder than a white writer? Are Superheroes Outliving Their…
Keiron Gillen On the Treatment of Rape In His Alt-WW2 Comic Über
From our upcoming feature interview with Kieron Gillen: This is World War II, and there were over one million rapes in central Berlin, and the fact is this was just really how it is. I’ve never written a page more carefully than that third page, because this cannot be exploitative, this cannot be titillating. In…
We’re Recruiting!
Women Write About Comics is looking for a features editor and some book reviewers to join the team. Click through to find out more.
We need a features/columns editor. Are YOU that editor?
This position has been filled. We are looking for an experienced features editor to manage our existing monthly columns and possibly commission more! Journalism, publishing, and communications (and related) students are more than welcome to apply. Our columns include: Comics Academe Reading Diaries: Conversations Between Readers Sell It Like It Is: The Comics Industry In Focus Fail…
Book reviewers! Come join the WWAC team.
These positions have been filled. We are looking to expand our coverage of books and book culture. To do that, we need you! That is, if you’re an experienced writer with an interest in books, book culture, and the book industry, then yeah, we need you. The Ideal Candidate: Can commit to one or two…
News & Things: The Business Case for Making Me A Cake Planet
News New Vertigo Series Bodies Promises Four Artists, Four Detectives, Four Time Periods One writer, four artists, four time periods. Bodies is an exciting new project that promises hard-boiled detecting, lots of great art, and you guessed it, dead bodies stacked to the skies. Classic Paintings, Explained With Tweets, Status Updates, and Emojis In a…