Art & Design Archives - Women Write About Comics

Cover Girl: Dragon Age: Deception #1 0
- Art & Design
- July 27, 2018
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring a woman. This month Wendy, Angie, Melissa, Jameson, and Laura discuss Sachin Teng’s cover for Dragon Age: Deception #1 from Dark Horse Comics.
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Cover Girls: Mystery in Madripoor #4 0
- Art & Design, Comics, Roundtables
- June 29, 2018
Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring a woman. This month Kayleigh, Laura, Claire, and Nola discuss Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor #4.
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The Pouch: There Can Never Be Enough Pouches 0
- Roundtables, Art & Design
- June 22, 2018
Pouches are always in fashion. Or rather, if they are not, they damn well should be. Our own Claire Napier is a big pouch advocate and has been a staunch pouch supporter since the ’90s, when Rob Liefeld and his ilk introduced superhero fashion to practicality: “When you’re wearing a pouch (or more), you can
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Snot Everywhere: An Interview with Snotgirl’s Leslie Hung 0
- Art & Design, Comics, Interviews
- May 23, 2018
Happy National Allergy Month! While ‘allergy month’ does bring bad tidings of itchy eyes and runny noses, it also brings volume two of Image’s Snotgirl ‘California Screaming’. Snot everywhere!!!
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Women Making Comics: Barbara Nosenzo on Coloring Halo Jones (EXCLUSIVE)1
- Art & Design, Comics, Interviews, Profiles & Primers
- November 6, 2017
2000AD is a very British comics institution. One that, due to their very own post apocalyptic hot dad Judge Dredd, became an international cultural phenomenon. Their alumni include pretty much every male British cartoonist and comics creator, including Alan Moore and Ian Gibson– whose groundbreaking Halo Jones was published at the company in 1984. Though
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Colour in Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do”0
- Art & Design, Comics, Essays, Indie & Small Press
- September 29, 2017
The endpapers of Thi Buy’s The Best We Could Do are coloured in a wash of a sky blue hue, and depict a beach scene: shells of several sizes are scattered about, along with a pair of sandals. The effect of the opening endpapers, to which the reader turns from the cover image of a
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