When I was a kid I stayed up late one night and watched Poltergeist with my older brothers. I was only twelve, and that isn’t exactly a kid’s movie, but it wasn’t scary at all with those two cracking jokes every millisecond. I thought it was a cool movie and bragged at school about how…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.1 E. 2
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
Picture This: Ruth Brown From an Early Childhood of Extreme Contrast to Master of Spooky Picture Books
Ruth Brown is the master of spooky picture books. She has written and/or illustrated dozens of books for young children covering a wide variety of topics, but her creepier works are the most distinctive with their balance between fear and charm. Brown was born in Devon, England in 1942. The first five years of her…
Reviews Roulette: Crime, Magic, Surgery
As Romona states below, Reviews Roulette is a feature where editorial staff assign comics to staff writers — comics they’ve never looked at, comics out of the blue. It’s a grab bag of mystery, and here’s what our women think! Baltimore: The Witch of Harju #2 Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden (W) Peter Bergting (A) Ben…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.1 E.1
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
Kid Comics Go to Class: Comic Book Classroom
Comic Book Classroom is a non-profit that implements school programs about art and writing with comic books. Glorious, literacy stimulating comic books. Based in Colorado, the group extends their resources to educational and community institutions free of charge. CBC is volunteer driven, running off of proceeds from the Denver Comic Con as well as through…
Picture This: Suzy Lee
Remember how last month the first Picture This post was going to be about Patricia Polacco? I thought I’d be able to write a succinct overview of Polacco’s work along with numerous insights into the underlying themes consistent throughout her body of work, with picture scans and a timeline of her life up to this…
The Twin Peaks Log: Pilot
Welcome to our biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks where we are working our way through every. Single. Episode. Some of us are regulars and some of us newbies, but none of our experiences are the same. So get yourself a damn fine cup of coffee, watch along with us, and feel free to chime in…
The Twin Peaks Log
Say hello to your new excuse to drink a damn fine cup of coffee: The Log Ladies of WWAC will be running a biweekly roundtable of Twin Peaks. That’s right. Every. Single. Episode. Some of us know the show by heart, some of us are rewatching it years after our first viewing, and some are…
#WWACNerdMovie Rewind
Last Wednesday (August 27th) WWAC livesnarked Strange Days. We learned a couple lessons from that one: 1) If it’s been over a decade since the last time you watched a movie, there might be some scenes that take you by surprise. I had completely forgotten about the rape scene. In the future we’ll be more…
September All Age Comics/Books
Cast Away on the Letter A: A Philemon Adventure Fred (A) & (W) TOON-Books Release Date 9/9 Philemon Adventures were originally a french fantasy comic strip that appeared regularly in the magazine Pilote. Never before translated into English, this is the first introduction of the comic to English speaking audiences. The original strips were serialized…
Gene Luen Yang on Comics in Education
For this installment of Kids Comics Go to Class we’re looking at Comics in Education, a website run by Gene Luen Yang. That’s right. Gene-Boxers & Saints–American Born Chinese-Yang. The site and the webcomic featured on it were his final project proposal for his Masters of Education degree at California State University. The project, a…