Once a month the members of Women Write About Comics get together to chat about what they’ve been reading. Here’s what we liked (and what we didn’t). Christa: I have read some excellent books these past few weeks. Starting with Fragile Bones by Lorna Schultz Nicholson, the first book from the new Canadian publishing house Clockwise…
She’ll Oni Work with the Young, the Brave, the Best: An Interview with Commissioning Editor Ari Yarwood
Comics editor Ari Yarwood was part of a wave of recent promotions at Oni Press. She caused a stir on Twitter by announcing that she was particularly looking to work with diverse queer and trans cartoonists telling their own stories. I caught up with her just as Oni was announcing an unprecedented period of open…
Take Your Dragon Balls And Go: Chi Chi’s Life was Hard and No One Respected Her
The news of Dragon Ball Super has us jumping. In my initial write up, I mentioned how much of a bone I have to pick with Goku. Desiree came asking—is if because of Chi Chi? Hell yes, it’s because of Chi Chi! So we got to talking. A wife’s life in shonen anime—a wife’s life…
Politics are Dreddful, Art is Active; Choose Your Representative
I’m not a 2000 AD reader, exactly. I’d kill a man for Slaine: The Horned God, I liked the Dredd trades my old local library had, and I’m pretty into the Judge Anderson stories I picked up at Thought Bubble last year, but I’ve never been a weekly purchaser. I tried for a while more than…
Who Swatches the Swatchmen: How I Swindled Myself Into Buying Makeup Because I Am A Sucker For #Brands
There’s something I find cathartic about putting on makeup every day. I almost never deviate from the ritual of moisturizer, primer, eyebrows, eye shadow, foundation, powder, and blush. It’s more about the routine than the cultivation of a look that I enjoy. It’s “I am going to look this way and this is how.” Aside…
We Want to Believe: Ginnis and Kate’s X-Files Nostalgia Trip Continues
The X-Files: Season 10, Vol. 2 Joe Harris (scripter) Elena Casagrande, Silvia Califano, Michael Walsh, Greg Scott, and Tony Moy (pencillers) Carlos Valenzuela (cover) Arianna Florean, Valentina Cuomo, Azzura M. Florean, Jordie Bellaire, and Art Lyon (colors) Robbie Robbins, Neil Uyetake, Tom. B. Long, and Gilberto Lazcano (letters) May 6, 2014 Kate and I had so…
A Chat About Girls, Pirates, Dinosaurs: The Elegance of Imagination in Pirates of Pangaea
Strapped into the back of someone else’s father’s car, I caught a glimpse of swans in a field of young wheat. “Oh!” I thought, their necks undulating, “Dinosaurs!” I felt like a child, but I wasn’t. I’d just been reading children’s comics: I’d been reading Pirates of Pangaea.
Sequential Sartorial: Superhero Beat! Off the Rack, On the Highstreet
A lot of the recent conversations surrounding what could be considered fashion in comics has been in reference to superhero uniforms. Now, we know that everyone’s new uniforms are rad. But what’s even radder is that some of the components that make up these costumes, as well as our favourite heroes’ civilian clothes, are based…
Women! And More Women! Swords of Sorrow is Coming
As I have said many times before, I love Red Sonja. She was the first “person” I wanted to be growing up. All I needed was a sword to go with my horse, which I already had (Texas girl here). When Gail Simone announced that she would be rounding up a group of female writers…
Teenage Kicks: Rosenberg, Kindlon and Hood’s We Can Never Go Home #1
We Can Never Go Home #1 Matthew Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon (W); Josh Hood (A); Michael Walsh (CA) Black Mask Comics April 6, 2015 As punk rock history might tell you, there’s something about a boy, a girl, self-destruction, and rock n’ roll that makes for a pretty compelling, if not ultimately tragic story. As…
Comics You Should Definitely Pick Up On Free Comic Book Day
Diamond Comics Distributors were kind enough to send me their Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) offerings before the day in question. I read them all except the five that I didn’t receive (Fight Club/The Goon/The Strain, Doctor Who Special, 2000 AD Special, Ice Bayou Blackout and Teen Titans GO!/Scooby-Doo Team Up #6). Below are my choices for the…
Do Not Read In Public: Let’s Talk About Sex (In Comics)
Content Warning: Discussion and depiction of sexuality. So I’m just a girl in a comic book store. I’m aimlessly walking around, letting my gaze go from cover to cover, waiting for something to catch my eye. I glance over a shitload of caped crusaders, lots of skintight catsuits, a couple of combat action sequences. Nothing really…