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Compact Magazine: A Look at Women in New Zealand’s War-Time Comics 0
- Comic Strips, Comics, Opinion
- June 8, 2018
It’s widely accepted that World War Two offered women temporary opportunities to step into male-dominated roles. In the case of New Zealand, they may have joined the newly established auxiliary forces, or taken on civilian roles made vacant when men enlisted. When I found that the war-time New Zealand Air Force magazine Contact – a
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So You Want To Run A Block Chain – An Instructional Photo Comic 0
- Comic Strips, Comics
- May 18, 2018
It’s tough to be active on the internet, and in the wake of recent events, we here at WWAC thought that it might be useful to help our readers (and anyone who needs to) learn how to run a block chain on Twitter.
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Hire This Woman: Bianca Xunise 0
- Comic Strips, Comics, Profile
- April 6, 2018
Hire This Woman was a long-running series of interviews at ComicsAlliance overseen by Janelle Asselin. We’re happy to announce that from here on out, with Asselin’s blessing, we’ll be taking over the “Hire This Woman” mantle. Using the questions from the original series we’ll be interviewing our favourite creators who identify as anything other than
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I Shouldn’t Mention Thunderbirds: Pop Culture References in Dialogue 1
- Comic Strips, Comics, Reviews
- March 5, 2018
It’s easy to be cynical about pop culture references in dialogue. It’s easy, and often enough, it’s fair. I don’t much need to explain why. What I do want to consider is an example of the opposite, when a pop culture reference in a piece of written dialogue becomes intensely concentrated communication, contextually useful and
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He Yams What He Yam: Discovering Popeye Through Popeye Otaku 2
- Comic Strips, Opinion, Profile
- February 5, 2018
There is nothing more convincing than conviction. Who has it? Fans have it. I want to introduce you to a fan I know—a fan whose pure enthusiasm’s already had me buying three separate, rather large books. His name is Troy, but he goes by Popeye Otaku. He loves Popeye. On twitter he lives Popeye, using
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Photo Comics or Not? Room For Ourselves in A Softer World 1
- Comic Strips, Comics, Opinion
- February 2, 2018
Editor’s note: I ran a poll on photo comics to see if I was the only one with a strangely firm prejudice against them—I wasn’t! Some really interesting discussion followed and as it developed I asked cartoonist Meredith Park to share her feelings in a longer form, here, on WWAC. Voila! Strong, personally held opinions:
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