In Maia Kobabe’s powerful memoir, Gender Queer, Kobabe shares eir journey to discovering eir gender queer identity and how e helped family and friends come to accept eir new pronouns. At times painfully raw, this personal story is relatable and necessary — which is why I’m incensed that Gender Queer is being banned across the…
Seven Seas Pubwatch: July 2022
July is here which means an even bigger heat wave to press down upon us before Fall arrives! Like many of you, I’m trying to find ways to beat the heat as I wonder why it seems our rights are being rolled back to our grandparents’ times! There’s a variety of titles this month that…
2022 Hugo Awards: That Story isn’t the Story/Bots of the Lost Ark
Welcome back to WWAC’s coverage of the 2022 Hugo Award finalists. Having reviewed the six finalists competing for Best Short Story we now move on to the Best Novelette category, starting with “That Story isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell and “Bots of the Lost Ark” by Suzanne Palmer…
REVIEW: The Greatest Thing Is a Love Letter to Gay Teens and Queer Zines
The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle (Sincerely, Harriet; Patience and Esther; and a former WWAC contributor!) is a bittersweet story about an aspiring artist who channels her dreams and anxieties into a series of comic zines. With its honest writing and soft pastel art, this graphic novel explores the realities of being a queer…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: July 2022
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of July! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, even more Archie Horror titles have been announced for the fall, The CW announces a Jake Chang spin-off series, Sabrina gets a…
[PREVIEW] World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #17
World of Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #17 is, as always, all about the love between Bets and Ronnie. That bond is often tested by outside forces, but they always manage to reunite in the name of friendship. In this month’s edition of the girls’ ongoing book, Betty and Veronica embark on a Riverdale-wide scavenger…
Previously on Comics: Do None of These People Know How to Operate Businesses Like Adults, or (Redux)
Hello faithful readers! Kate here, back again to provide a review of the past week’s comics news for people like me, who log in to Twitter once a week and have no idea what people are talking about most of the time. This week, it’s all about publishing and specifically, what NOT to do, because…
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Temporal Chaos Reigns in G.I.L.T. #4
Urban fantasy fans have a new heroine in Hildy Winters, stylish resident of New York City’s Upper West Side and member of the Guild of Independent Lady Temporalists. WWAC offers this exclusive preview of Ahoy Comics’ G.I.L.T, #4, the penultimate issue of this witty time-travel adventure series by Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet.
INTERVIEW: Tom Humberstone Takes a Legend to Court in Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis
Suzanne Lenglen was one of the world’s greatest tennis players. A revolutionary player during her career that spanned 1921 to 1927, she combined her balletic training with the more aggressive style of men’s tennis and broke conventions with her iconic style and fashion that were less about modesty and more about actually playing the game…
Previously On Comics: Solemn Goodbyes
Good morning friends. I fear the news of late is just a list of obituaries and condolences and sadly this week is no different. Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! passed away this week. We also send our condolences to the family and friends of author, critic, and cartoonist R.C. Harvey who sadly passed…
INTERVIEW: Magnolia Porter Siddell on The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell‘s newest webcomic, The Golden Boar, began in March 2022 and tells the story of Merro and the fantastic island world of Moonforest that is home to a reclusive magical community. Here, Porter Siddell shares some of the ideas behind The Golden Boar — from character and world design to how her past…
Previously On Comics: Bored On The Fourth Of July
Good morning. Here’s your Fourth of July reminder that patriotism, jingoism, and nationalism exist to stoke the average person’s zeal for an abstract concept into a tool meant to be wielded in the oppression of others. There is no reason to love the USA — it was built on slavery and genocide, and the only…
