Happy New Year! I’m excited to inaugurate 2019 with a look at the last month in the world of Britain’s Titan Comics. Titan has a fabulous track record for bringing a fresh look to existing licenses, and providing titles that are a little more adult, a little more cerebral, and very uniquely British—including one with…
Yumi Sakugawa Imagines a Beautiful Future with Fashion Forecasts
Fashion Forecasts Yumi Sakugawa Retrofit September 2018 It can be difficult to look forward to a new year, especially as the world moves in a downward progression politically and morally. There’s a pressure to reflect on the past year, which means considering how we’ve grown, but also remembering all the negative experiences and difficulties. Fortunately,…
Emma G. Wildford: A Poetic Adventure
Emma G. Wildford Zidrou (Writer), Edith (Artist) Éditions Soleil (French), Titan Comics (English) 21 November, 2018 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review, It’s the hottest summer in London, but Emma G. Wildford has her mind on colder climes. Her fiancé, Roald Hodges, left for an…
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2018
Well, the corpses of Christmas Trees are littering the sidewalk and all the champagne bottles have been popped, so as we usher in 2019 it seems the perfect time for quiet reflection. But not on New Year’s Resolutions, silly. On comic books! WWAC has rounded up its contributors to share their favorite big press comics…
Webcomics Roundup: Faces Old and New
For this month, we’re rounding up some familiar faces with webcomics that some of us are longtime fans of, while others are just discovering new faces or new comics altogether. Read on to find out what you should be catching up on online!
WWAC Reading Challenge
Are you looking for some new and interesting comic books to read. Are you trying to get through that stack of comics you kept meaning to read last year but didn’t find the time? Are you stuck for what to read next? Well, we’re here to help with our brand new WWAC READING CHALLENGE! Our team…
[EXCLUSIVE] We Are Here Forever Cover Reveal + Interview with Michelle Gish
Michelle Gish’s adorable post-apocalyptic webcomic started on Tumblr and quickly amassed over 18,000 followers. We Are Here Forever chronicles the adventures of adorable purple creatures called the Puramus as they roam an Earth mysterious bereft of humans, collecting treasures, writing poetry, and developing governments. Quirk Books will be publishing a book based on these strips in…
Lela Gwenn Turns Disaster Into Profit With Bad Luck Chuck
For some people, good fortune seems to mark their every step. But the people who are on Lady Luck’s bad side don’t have to take their unfortunate events lying down. Charlotte “Chuck” Manchester has turned her bad luck curse into cold, hard cash, hiring out her special brand of disaster for a price. But bad…
The Fine Art of Geeky Adult Colouring Books
One of my fondest childhood memories is colouring with my mom. We had numerous colouring books and those big boxes of Crayola crayons—the ones that came with the built-in sharpener in the box—and we’d sit for hours and just colour. I always tried to emulate the way she’d trace darker lines along the inside edges of…
Previously On Comics: Ask Me About My Trans Exclusionary Feminist Agenda
While the majority of us are still too busy trying to recover from the holidays to get caught up in trash and nonsense, comics never truly rest and the news just keeps on coming. We started the year with the news that the chairman of IDW has recently loaned the company $28 million to help…
Cover Girl: Red Sonja #25
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, Lisa, Claire, Kayleigh, Amanda, Laura, and Louis discuss Erica Henderson’s variant cover of Red Sonja #25.
Three Stars and a Wish for the Pros of The Pros and (Comic) Cons
Hope Nicholson’s latest anthology, Pros and (Comic) Cons from Dark Horse Comics, features several industry professionals sharing stories and anecdotes about their convention experiences, which she talks about in an earlier interview with WWAC. Here we’re asking Nicholson and her contributors to share her “Three Stars and a Wish” about comic conventions. That is, read on…