Art of Colouring: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Disney Book Group December 2016 Who made this colouring book? I can’t tell you because that information isn’t given anywhere in the back matter or the nonexistent front matter. Neither is it available on Disney or Amazon. This emphasizes the intellectual property and brand over the…
WWAC’s Reading Resolutions for 2017
Want to read more sci-fi? What does it mean to “read diversely” and do you need to do more of it? Are you notorious for not finishing your to-read pile? It’s a new year which means a new year because that’s how it works, right? Some of the WWAC contributors have shared their reading resolutions…
We Conceive: Rachel Masilamani’s NON PARTUM
“We Conceive” is the last update in Rachel Masilamani’s NON PARTUM series, published by Mutha Magazine in June of 2015. While I’d been writing about the series, one by one, as it came out, I fell off by the time this one came out, because certain elements of Masilimani’s comic about health, trauma, and trying to…
Frontier #14: Rebecca Sugar
Frontier #14: Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Sugar Youth In Decline December 2016 The cover of Frontier #14 is not misleading. This is, in part, a comic about progress, corrections, revisiting, and reworking past ideas. The layers of pencil, corrective tape, and marker are a motif, the vehicle through which Sugar makes her point. After the front…
Top Indies, Small Press, and Webcomics of 2016
I asked our small press comics fans to tell me not what the best comics of 2016 were, but which ones were their favourites. Here’s what they said: Mattress Stiff With Blood Tom McHenry Self-published There’s something that’s incredibly natural about the cartooning Tom McHenry does in this work—everything flows so seamlessly from one topic to…
TV That Moved Me In 2016
I’m not particularly interested in Best Of lists. After the third list it gets stale and instead of discussing art that moved us, the discourse instead seems to focus on who wrote the best list, what rank the obviously good things appeared in. So this year I asked our writers to tell me about the…
Look At This Excellent Imperfection: Ashley Franklin’s “The Ghost Dream”
I like hand lettering a lot. There’s a certain character that linear insufficiency, messiness, brings to a work.
Review: Leela Corman’s We All Wish for Deadly Force
We All Wish for Deadly Force Leela Corman Retrofit/Big Planet Comics June 2016 Disclaimer: A copy of this comic was provided by the publisher for review. We All Wish for Deadly Force is a collection of Leela Corman’s previously published short comics, one of which I’ve reviewed here on the site. Corman’s comics range from…
The Worst Possible Game: Maki Naro and Matthew Francis’ “Are We Living In A Computer Simulation?”
Artist Maki Naro teams up with writer (and physicist) Matthew R. Francis for his latest comic for The Nib, which explores the the age-old question: Is reality real? Elon Musk–CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, leader of various interesting projects, and full time public futurist–recently made the case for philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument. Bostrom…
The Die Hard Coloring and Activity Book Is Mostly Great
Die Hard: The Authorized Coloring and Activity Book Doogie Horner 20th Century Fox and Harper Design October 25, 2016 Die Hard: The Colouring and Activity Book is pretty good. Mostly great, even. It’s not quite perfect though, and its flaws are common to adult colouring books: too much white space and not enough ink. Illustrator…
Shoeless When the World Ends: In Seoul Station the Homeless Are Blamed First
Seoul Station Director: Yeon Sang-ho Cast: Ryu Seung-ryong, Shim Eun-kyung, Lee Joon August 18, 2016 It starts in Seoul Station, where dozens of homeless people are bunked down for the night. A man neglected and discarded by society is the first to turn but others follow quickly. These are fast zombies, chasing down their victims…
Betty & Veronica #2 Is Awful and Depressing
Betty & Veronica #2 Adam Hughes Archie Comics November 2016 It’s been months since the first issue of Adam Hughes’ Betty & Veronica came out, long enough that some of my bitterness toward the title has washed away. Maybe, I thought, this issue would find Hughes settling in with a deeper understanding of the characters, discarding…