Twisted Romance #2 Alejandra Gutierrez (artist, “Twinkle & The Star”), Alex de Campi (writer, “Twinkle & The Star), Vita Ayala (“Back at Your Door”), Meredith McLaren (writer/artist, “Would You Even Know It?”) Image Comics February 14, 2018 Reports of romance comics’ death have always been greatly exaggerated. Crying white women pining over hunks in four-color…
World of Wakanda: Short-Lived But Powerful Tale of Fierce, Queer Love
Black Panther: World of Wakanda #1-5 Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Writers), Alitha Martinez, Afua Richardson (Artists), Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist), VC’s Joe Sabino (Letterer) Marvel Comics 2018-2017 While Roxane Gay’s name holds a certain shiny promise, it was not her alone that drew me to Black Panther’s World of Wakanda. I was initially drawn to this…
Mimi Pond’s The Customer is Always Wrong is Just Right
The Customer is Always Wrong Mimi Pond (Writer and Artist) Drawn & Quarterly August 9th, 2017 Mimi Pond’s The Customer is Always Wrong captures that time of carefree youth, when everything seems to last forever and yet, with a creeping certainty, the consequences of one’s actions are slowly making their first marks. The graphic novel presents…
Hungry Ghosts Left Me Hungry for Context
Hungry Ghosts #1 Anthony Bourdain (writer), Joel Rose (writer), Alberto Ponticelli (artist), Vanessa Del Rey (artist), Jose Villarrubia (colorist), Sal Cipriano (letters), Paul Pope (cover art) Dark Horse 31 January, 2018 I can’t pinpoint exactly when I fell in love with Japanese horror. There’s a solid chance it happened when I stumbled across the anime…
CATS! A Celebration of Hourly Comics Day 2018
I love Hourly Comics Day! On February 1st, many cartoonists take to Twitter or Instagram to draw comics detailing what happened during each hour of their day. There are no rules regarding format, style or consistency; some draw on post-it notes, take pictures of their sketchbooks, do fully shaded, multi-panel comics – anything goes! Hourlies,…
Whit Taylor’s Handpicked Hauntings
I really like ghost stories. I think they’re an important part of how we express ourselves, how we interact with the things we don’t understand, with the things that might be a bit beyond us. It’s funny, because while I’m hit or miss on horror, I’m always in for a good ghost story. I see…
Paper Girls: Women Rallying Against Imperial Horror
Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Cliff Chiang (artist), Matt Wilson (colorist), Jared K. Fletcher (letterer/designer), Dee Cunniffe (color flatter) Image Comics 2015-Ongoing Paper Girls is an enthralling take on the coming-of-age genre, placing women at the forefront of a number of landscapes they rarely get to star in: ’80s nostalgia pieces, time-travel adventures, horror, and adolescent…
Jem and the Holograms – Infinite: Colourful Caper through Parallel Worlds
Jem and the Holograms: Infinite Kelly Thompson (Writer), Stacey Lee, Jenn St-Onge (Artists), Jen Hickman (Artist and Letters), Sarah Stern, M. Victoria Robado (Letters and Colours), Shawn Lee (Letters), Brittany Peer (Colours) IDW Publishing 13 February, 2018 Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits are at it again: not singing, but arguing. Can these two…
Women Making Comics: Katie Green on the Power of Autobiographical Comics
This article contains references to eating disorders and sexual abuse. Katie Green is an artist based in the south west of the UK. She creates comics and zines, as well as designing craft projects and knitting patterns. With her latest book, Lighter Than My Shadow, she chronicles her struggle with—and recovery from—eating disorders and sexual…
Come On, Vogue: Extreme Soviet Superheroics in 1995
It is not impossible to create a comic book of quality around a Soviet teenager defecting in desperation, moving to America, growing up beautiful, and becoming an employee of the US government who takes gymnastic spy assignments. I can say this in confidence having enjoyed Aymond and Van Hamme’s Lady S (Dupuis, published in translation by…
01: First Second Fall 2018 Cover Reveal!
This month the exciting and innovative publisher First Second revealed their Fall 2018 covers. 01:First Second is the publisher that brought you great books like Pashmina, The Cute Girl Network and Tillie Walden’s ice skater graphic Novel Spinning, and this fall they are release some amazing title s that we know will become some of future favorites.
Hire This Hero: Punish Your Punisher by Replacing Him With Deathblow!
Hello! WWAC’s Superhero Temp Agency is back, and this time we have a candidate for your next Punisher. We here at WWAC understand. Sometimes your Punisher draws the short end of the stick and winds up in jail. Some days he’s busy attending to a terrorist group somewhere on the other side of the globe….
