Hello, Spring! We’re glad you’re here. Please, join us for a game or two. Games Editor Al Rosenberg may not be able to remove herself from Hearthstone on her cell phone long enough to do much of anything, but other folks are having exciting gaming adventures. Readers, what are you playing this month?
#AdminProfessionalsDay: Aspen’s Executive Assistant By Day, Assassin By Night
It’s Administrative Professionals’ Day, and in honour of this event, I am celebrating me, who has been a badass executive level administrator for over a decade. After high school, college and university didn’t go so well for me. Money was short and I needed a job but I refused to get into food service, or go back…
Inquisition Diaries #12: Cold Resistance +3
SPOILER WARNING: These diaries will contain spoilers for Dragon Age Inquisition (DAI), as well as its predecessors, Dragon Age: Origins (DAO) and Dragon Age II (DA2), and may also contain spoilers from the tie-in materials. If you’re new to this whole Dragon Age business and want to know what the hell I’m going on about,…
Sunday Art Gala: Work, Play, Lift! More Stealth Cosplay
Have you seen Desiree’s stealth cosplay as Anya Corazon, also known as Spider-Girl? There are all sorts of ways to sneak cosplay into our daily lives, and so, taking inspiration from Joie Fatale’s Google+ post, we decided to take to Polyvore to design some of our own!
Weekend Review 04/18/2015
Another busy week at WWAC. Daredevil gets descriptive, the future of FCBD, Haiku Warriors, oh yeah and Joss Whedon’s dishwater feminism.
Inquisition Diaries #11: The Jaws of Hakkon
SPOILER WARNING: These diaries will contain spoilers for Dragon Age Inquisition (DAI), as well as its predecessors, Dragon Age: Origins (DAO) and Dragon Age II (DA2), and may also contain spoilers from the tie-in materials. If you’re new to this whole Dragon Age business and want to know what the hell I’m going on about,…
Weekend Review 6/11/2015
Cover that boy up! Check your Rule 63! Utena vs. Kill La Kill! Magical women are scary! Interviews! Blog Carnivals! What a week!
Newspaper Comics: How We Met Them and Where We’d Like to See Them Go
For many of us Millennials and older, newspaper comics were our first experience with sequential art. But that may be changing. While school and alternative newspaper comics used to be a way for cartoonists to break into making comics professionally or to having a syndicated strip, these days, budding creators are more likely to start out on…
Seeking: Copyeditor
Women do write about comics, guys. Seriously, a lot. Our beat is comics, creators, and geek culture from a feminist perspective. We are committed to intersectionality and internationality (our diverse staff hails from Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Brazil, and the United States). And while we’re an unabashedly feminist, unapologetically ladies-first operation, we have a healthy…
Teenage Eternity: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Turns 18
This year, Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns eighteen. It’s finally graduated high school and has set off for UC Sunnydale to ultimately wash out and become a full time supernatural hero. Oh well, Buffy the College Years were never quite as fun as Buffy on the unlimited budget of adolescent emotion and parental distance. (See:…
Movies that Shaped Me: Gone With The Wind
Gone with the Wind (1939) Based on the novel by: Margaret Mitchell Directed by: Victor Fleming Screen play by: Sidney Howard Written by: George Cukor, Sam Wood, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling, and John Van Druten Produced by: David O. Selznick Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh