Wash Day Jamila Rowser (writer), Robyn Smith (illustrator), J.A. Micheline (script editor) Black Josei Press June 2018 Disclaimer: J.A. Micheline has written for Women Write About Comics. Wash Day is a mini slice-of-life comic that aims to show black women just how beautiful they are. The story, penned and illustrated by Jamila Rowser and Robyn…
Cover Girl: Miss Fury #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, Annie, and Brenda discuss Dynamite’s Miss Fury #1, which features five different covers by Billy Tucci, Emma Kubert, Ken Lashley, Mike McKone, and Jan Duursema.
Digital Reading and Reading Digitally
You are a digital reader. You’re probably reading this on a smartphone, tablet, or computer screen, but even if you were to read this off of a piece of paper, you’d still be a digital reader, because this essay was digitally mediated: typed into a word processing program before it was uploaded onto the website…
Is 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special More Than a Gimmick?
You know, I’ve never really read Judge Dredd. I mean, I know of him, I’ve seen both film adaptations, but the one time I even attempted to read the comics, I started with the first of those complete volumes from a few years ago and found it very hard to even get started on. I…
WWACommendations: X-23, The Wilds, The Wendy Project, Mermaid’s Promise, and More
What comics are you reading for fun lately? While many of us read various comics for research, curiosity, or to keep up with a series, there are certain comics we’re reading just for fun. In this roundtable, WWAC contributors gush about the comics they’ve been reading this past month that were a pure delight.
Extermination #2 Pushes us Closer Toward the Edge
Extermination #2 Ed Brisson (Writer), Marte Gracia (Colorist), Pepe Larraz (Artist), Joe Sabino (Letterer) Marvel Comics August 29, 2018 “I’m going with them.” The four words at the end of Extermination #2 told me all I needed to know and I honestly couldn’t be more hooked on this book. This is a comic focused on returning the time…
MST3K #1: The Incredibly Strange Comics That Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic #1 Joel Hodgson, Harold Buchholz, Matt McGinnis, Mary Robinson, Seth Robinson, Sharyl Volpe (Writers), Todd Nauck, Mike Manly (Artists), Wes Dzioba, Mike Manly (Colorists), Michael Heisler (Letterer) Dark Horse Comics September 12, 2018 What started as a public access puppet show making fun of movies like The Green Slime…
Moth & Whisper #1 Delivers Intrigue and Heart
Moth & Whisper #1 Ted Anderson (writer), Jen Hickman (artist) AfterShock Comics September 12, 2018 Moth & Whisper is described by their publisher, AfterShock, as “a Young Adult cyberpunk thriller starring a genderqueer super-thief,” and if that’s not enough to get you on board, I don’t know what to tell you.
My Favourite Bug-based Superheroes that Aren’t Ant-Man and The Wasp
I may never forgive the MCU for that end credit scene following the fun and entertaining romp that was the Ant-Man and The Wasp movie, but I did come to appreciate characters in that film that I had previously known or cared very little about. Plus, the movie prompted me to do a little research. Science has…
Presenting Dark Horse: August 2018
Hello lovely readers! Welcome to the August installment of Presenting Dark Horse. After pushing through back-to-back Pubwatch posts about Dark Horse Comics’ shenanigans during June 2018 and July 2018’s SDCC, I needed a minute to regroup. And to sleep. It’s been a long few weeks, y’all. Now that I’ve returned to a somewhat normal sleep…
Behind the Scenes with Oni and Limerence Press’ Ari Yarwood
In our Editorial Eye series, we go behind the scenes with comic and book editors to learn about their role in the creative process and discover how their passion for their industry helps shape their work. Several comic companies have introduced imprints that cover more adult stories, which means books that invariably involve sex. In…
Previously on Comics: The Valkyries’ Ragnarok and Saying Goodbye to FPI’s Blog
Back to back conventions has meant that for the most part everyone has either been too busy, in transit or just too tired to cause any trouble so this last week was been strangely quiet on the news front. Until suddenly it wasn’t and the white feminism™ we all know and hate once again reared…
