Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for November! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In November’s Pubwatch, Archie’s Free Comic Book Day title is announced, some new characters are introduced for Christmas, and Netflix’s version of The Archies releases a trailer. Also, there are plenty…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: Fall 2023
Since this is dropping on the last day of the spooky season, Happy Halloween! It’s all treats and no tricks in this PUBWATCH. This month, we have a double dose of Scarlett Couture: The Munich File and the latest Conan the Barbarian adventures.
ROUNDTABLE: The Hellfire Gala 2023 Afterparty Autopsy!
Welcome to WWAC’s Hellfire Gala 2023 roundup! The third annual Hellfire Gala was a party to die for, and one of the most shocking comic books of 2023. The House of X fell harder than Jason Derulo falling down the stairs at the Met Gala, but with the new X-Men status quo now well underway,…
WWACommendations: Gender Queer, Surviving Romance, Watership Down and More
Well, I feel like we are simultaneously hurtling toward 2024 and like there is way too much left to do in 2023, but the truth is that time moves at time’s pace, which means it’s simply time for October’s WWACommendations. Nothing more worrying than that! It is spooky season, but our reads this month are…
EXCLUSIVE: Dark Horse Gets LOUD with English Translation of ‘Fai Rumore’
WWAC does not, for the most part, get offered a lot of exclusives, but when Dark Horse let me know that they were announcing an English translation of the Boscarato award-winning anthology Fai Rumore: Nove storie per osare, I was truly honored. The MOLESTE collective for gender equality in comics is a group of individuals…
ESSAY: Laura Gao’s Navigation Through Asian American Identity in Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
Written and illustrated by Laura Gao, Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American is a Harvey-nominated coming-of-age story about the hardship of identity and the beautiful but messy journey to find it. After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, Laura immigrates to Texas with her family, where she finds herself constantly having…
COMICS ACADEME: Comics Are a Graphic Education for Dyslexic Readers
I am more than a fan of comics. I have made them my career, and I advocate for their importance any chance I get. One of the major reasons why I do so is because of the impact comics have had on me as a dyslexic woman, as well as the potential they have to…
COVER REVEAL: Extreme Sports Get A Softer Side With Pillow Talk
Y’know, one of those funny things about doing this job right is that we’ve gotta make sure we announce disclaimers when we’re covering things that our contributors might be involved with. Sometimes that’s thorny, but sometimes it’s really cool. Today’s one of the latter, as we have the pleasure of revealing the cover to Pillow…
INTERVIEW: Writing Comics Scripts with Jamila Rowser: Part One
On June 10, after news hit Twitter (well, the website now formerly known as Twitter) that artist and animator Ian McGinty had passed away at 38, cartoonist Shivana Sookdeo started the hashtag #ComicsBrokeMe. Stories poured onto social media via the hashtag, revealing how overworked, underpaid, and exploited artists are in both comics and animation. As…
ESSAY: Adam Warren’s The Dirty Pair is a Forgotten Sci-Fi Classic
The American Dirty Pair comics by Toren Smith and Adam Warren are some of the best comics of the 90s and early aughts. During a time when American comics frequently were visually incoherent and overly self serious, The Dirty Pair was a breath of fresh air. The series was well illustrated beyond the lowered standards…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: October 2023
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of October! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In October’s Pubwatch, Fran Frazier returns to the Archieverse and Netflix’s version of The Archies releases their first single. Also, there are plenty of new variant covers and…
EXCLUSIVE TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT: Archie Love Showdown TPB
Click below for an announcement of a brand new Archie trade paperback!