The leaves are turning and the pumpkin spice lattes have reappeared, so it’s time to settle down with some quiet, contemplative, and comfortable comics—and Kickstarter has your back! From experimental woodland horror comics to explorations of Black hair or magazines for young witches, now’s the time to back a book that will remind you of…
Rye Hickman Talks About the Cyberpunk World of Moth & Whisper
Moth & Whisper is one of the newest titles that will be coming out soon from AfterShock comics and is a tale of crime, intrigue, glamorous thieves, and a genderqueer protagonist that has to take up the family business(es) if they want to save their family. We had a chance to talk with artist Rye…
My First Comic: Bunty Comics Annual 1985
I always tell people that the first comics I really got into were Gaiman’s The Sandman, Transmetropolitan by Ellis, or Preacher by Ennis. However, the truth is that Bunty Annual 1985 was my introduction to the world of comics. Bunty comics was a British publication aimed at girls. I don’t know if someone bought it…
Hottest Hair In Comics
As you know, here at WWAC, we’re committed to bringing you the hardest hitting critical analysis that can be found in comics. We cover the topics others are too afraid to cover! Explore the corners of comics as an industry that others are afraid to look in to! Spend several hours compiling a list of…
Oni Press MEGA PUBWATCH: Three Months of Glorious Comics!
Welcome to the official Oni Press Pubwatch here at WWAC. I, Jazmine, will be your guide through the wild landscape of Rick and Morty comics, Invader Zim tomfoolery, and the wonderfully cute Kaijumax series. Now, this is just gonna be your standard Pubwatch scenario. Nothing too out of the box, I’m just gonna jump in…
This Guide Explains How to Use They/Them Pronouns, But Not Why
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson Limerance Press June 12, 2018 One of the most consistently frustrating experiences of being non-binary is that you are misgendered more or less constantly. Whether going out to eat or dealing with clueless family or coworkers, misgendering is constant and can make…
PUBWATCH: BOOM! Studios, August 2018
Hey folks! If you’ve been regularly following this here BOOM! Pubwatch, you might notice things are a bit different, as we’ve secretly replaced your regular host, the fearless Claire “Jack ‘The Joker’ Napier” Napier, with, well, me. Archival footage of Claire leaving the BOOM! Pubwatch: Well, have no fear, because I’ve bowed down in front…
V.E. Schwab Talks Crossing Into Comics With Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince
V.E. Schwab thought she’d left her Shades of Magic series behind with the conclusion of the trilogy in A Conjuring of Light. But she realized that there were still more stories to tell, even as she worked on the sequel to her first book Vicious. Her new trilogy, Threads of Power, will step into the future…
Review: Magical Princess Sky
Magical Princess Sky Allie Malott Self-published 2018 When you have a genre like magical girls that’s gone on long enough to be slammed full of tropes, you can approach making a new work in a number of ways. You can play it straight without any innovation and become cliche. You can poke fun at it…
Valiant’s The Year of the Visitor
This 1994 Valiant-on-Valiant documentary has a number of joys to offer and a lot of information. One such piece is a fairly large nugget: that 1994 was “the year of The Visitor.”
Comics I Read While Recovering From Surgery
Hi, my name is Jameson Hampton, I’m a critic for Women Write About Comics, and I recently went under the knife for my gender affirming surgery! (Yay!) Now that I’m in recovery, I’m trying to make the best of it: I have air conditioning during this heatwave, I have care packages from some dear friends,…
Con Diaries: Flame Con 2018
Flame Con has leveled up in its fourth year, moving to a bigger venue in Times Square from Brooklyn. The new digs provided a bigger artist alley and more space for even more queer fans, panels, and stage shows. It’s an all-ages con, and is free for the youth to attend on Sunday, so while…
