Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Claire, Louis, Wendy, and Lisa look back at Minkyu Jung’s cover of The Magnificent Ms. Marvel #4 from Marvel Comics.
Vampirella #1: WTF Is Up With Her Clothes?
Vampirella #1: Seduction of the Innocent Frank Cho (Cover A artist), Ergün Gündüz (artist and colourist), Christopher Priest (writer), Willie Schubert (letterer) Dynamite Entertainment July 17, 2019 Fifty years after her introduction, Vampirella is rebooted yet again by Dynamite—though writer Priest promises that this isn’t exactly a reboot. In a CBR interview, he says that…
Cover Girl: Prism Stalker #5
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Louis, Nola, and Laura discuss the cover of Prism Stalker #5 from Image Comics.
Cover Girl: Red Sonja and Vampirella Meet Betty and Veronica #2
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Louis, Wendy, and Lisa discuss Fay Dalton’s cover of Red Sonja and Vampirella Meet Betty and Veronica #2 from Dynamite Entertainment.
A Gathering of Letterers
If you’ve been following By the Letters since the series inception early this year, you know that I’ve been spotlighting the fine art of comic book lettering and have featured a few interviews with letterers, including Ariana Maher. We’re a big fan of roundtables at WWAC, so I asked Maher if she’d help me get…
Cover Girls: Unnatural #9
Welcome to Cover Girls. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Louis, Wendy, and Kayleigh share their thoughts on the cover of Unnatural #9 by Mirka Andolfo from Image Comics.
4 Reasons to Love Andy Kubert’s X-Men Covers
When Andy Kubert took over the reins on X-Men and Uncanny X-Men during my ’90s comic collecting days, I developed a love-hate relationship with his artwork. I was always frustrated by the same face syndrome he displayed in his art and by his weirdly disproportionate appendages, with knees that seemed to take up far more…
[Exclusive Preview] The Mysticons are Back to Save Drake City
Based on the Nickelodeon cartoon, Mysticons Volume 2 from Dark Horse Comics sees the return of Arkayna, Zarya, Emerald, and Piper to fulfill their prophecy of fighting evil. “In an effort to get Em out of the house, the Mysticons go to the mall, where Em is swept up in the world of a Battle-Bots style…
Cover Girl: Xena: Warrior Princess #1
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Louis, Wendy, and Lisa discuss the covers for the Xena #1 relaunch from Dynamite Entertainment.
Knit Your Comics: Thanos Infinity Scarf
It’s April, and Avengers: Endgame will be released this week. In the year since Avengers: Infinity War, I know I haven’t recovered. Even knowing that some people are going to return thanks to the movie press machine that keeps on running (looking at you Spider-Man: Far From Home), every trailer has been like reopening a…
[Exclusive Preview] Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Coloring Book
I recently watched Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom based on this recommendation from a trusted friend: “It’s a gothic horror, but with dinosaurs.” What more could one want in a film? Even better, said gothic horror but with dinosaurs ushering in the dinopocalypse at the end! I honestly don’t trust the filmmakers to give me the…
Seeing Surrealism in Comics
I started researching Surrealism, more specifically Women Surrealists, over ten years ago, writing both my M.A. dissertation and then my PhD thesis on the subject. I have a particular interest with Surrealism’s connections to the female body, fashion, and magic/alchemy/witchcraft, but the movement is wide and its influence felt in many places. As a result,…
