Frontier #14: Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Sugar Youth In Decline December 2016 The cover of Frontier #14 is not misleading. This is, in part, a comic about progress, corrections, revisiting, and reworking past ideas. The layers of pencil, corrective tape, and marker are a motif, the vehicle through which Sugar makes her point. After the front…
Comics and YA: How Shelving Creates Access
I think that I’ve got a pretty great job. On any given day I could be helping a teen find a read-a-like for her favorite fantasy series, telling another teen that no they can’t eat buffalo wings at the public computers, doing a Harry Potter-inspired craft program, or reminding someone that not everything you read…
Previously on Comics: Anticipated Adaptations and Fighting Stigmas
Hi readers! Welcome to the first Previously On Comics of 2017! I hope you had a lovely and restful holiday season. Alas, comics news never rests so let’s get started. Are you an Attack on Titan fan who’s been dying for the second season of the anime? I completely understand. Three years is a long…
Review: Hawkeye #1 Hits the Bullseye
Hawkeye #1 Kelly Thompson (s), Leonardo Romero (p), Jordie Bellaire (c), VC’s Joe Sabino (l) Marvel Comics December 14, 2016
Top Indies, Small Press, and Webcomics of 2016
I asked our small press comics fans to tell me not what the best comics of 2016 were, but which ones were their favourites. Here’s what they said: Mattress Stiff With Blood Tom McHenry Self-published There’s something that’s incredibly natural about the cartooning Tom McHenry does in this work—everything flows so seamlessly from one topic to…
What’s Ahead for 2dcloud: An Interview With Raighne
Comics publisher 2dcloud has had a pretty great year for 2016 — their catalog includes the critically acclaimed Turning Japanese by MariNaomi and Someone Please Have Sex with Me by Gina Wynbrandt, and 2017 looks to be full of promise too. Their Fall 2016 Kickstarter wraps in 3 days — three books, three zines, and some extras. Since…
WWAC’s Favorite Big Press Comics of 2016
Southern Cross Becky Cloonan (Writer and Cover Artist), Andy Belanger and Lee Loughridge (Artists) Image Comics Southern Cross looked like something I would not like. For all of my love of things beginning with Star (Wars, Trek, etc.), I’m actually pretty afraid of space. And space stories where scary stuff happens? Certainly too frightening. Wrong! This is…
Look At This Excellent Imperfection: Ashley Franklin’s “The Ghost Dream”
I like hand lettering a lot. There’s a certain character that linear insufficiency, messiness, brings to a work.
Interview: Sequentials, a New “Comics” Journal
As part of Comics Academe, one of the things I want to do is to promote what’s happening in academia and comics studies–especially when what’s happening is something that is innovative, or challenges what academic “scholarship” can be. When I first heard about Sequentials, a new comics “journal” being put out by the incredible English…
What a Webcomic! Digital Recommendations
Welcome to What a Webcomic, a series by the enigmatic Sergio Alexis, where they cover the best webcomics they read since…the last time they did one of these. Hold onto your butts, because these comics are queer, they are female lead, and they are wonderful! For now I will not be repeating entries from my…
Previously On Comics: Oh, comics.
Hello, Previously fans! Kate here with the final Previously on Comics of 2016. And this past week was a doozy, reminding us all that just being in comics is a questionable life choice. Sometimes you spend a morning away from social media for whatever reason–a late morning snooze, an early morning workout–and then you check…
Knit Your Comics: Harley Quinn Fingerless Gloves
It’s that time of year when holidays are happening, and as a knitter, I love the holidays as an excuse to knit presents for my friends. This project is one that was essentially commissioned by WWAC staff, and all around badass, Wendy Browne.