Filipa Estrela is currently crowdfunding the book Meandering Realms: An Anthology of Unconventional Materials Comics, which features short comics by a number of creators in a dizzying array of materials: everything from needlefelting to black and white photographs of facepaint. The stories told are similarly diverse, with some quiet slice of life and some alien…
REVIEW: The Lover of Everyone in the World is a Brilliant Meditation on Empathy
The Lover of Everyone in the World feels like a thought experiment – what would it be like to feel real, romantic love for every person on earth? What would it mean to be in that many relationships, and to feel that much real love for such a wide variety of people? How would it…
REVIEW: Himawari House Finds a Home in Cross-Cultural Friendship
Himawari House by Harmony Becker (They Called Us Enemy) is slice-of-life diaspora fiction that revolves around the sense of home, belonging, and otherness experienced by three young women living in Japan. Having decided to take a gap year between high school and college, 18-year-old Nao moves into the Himawari share house in Tokyo, where she…
INTERVIEW: Editor Alberto Rayo Helps Spin a Tale in The Lizard Prince
The Lizard Prince and Other South American Stories is the sixth in Iron Circus’ crowd-funded volumes of Cautionary Fables and Fairytales, and is also the last of the series, which began in 2017. Each volume focuses on a different region of the world, bringing together cartoonists, artist, and writers to showcase their takes on regional…
FlameCon 2022 Con Diary: Dispatch from the Artist’s Alley
I am a lucky person in many ways. I can jump on a train and get directly to New York Penn Station in less than two hours. As I drag my giant, heavy suitcase onto the NJ Transit train at 8:09 that morning, I tell myself that at least I don’t have to pay for…
INTERVIEW: From Supergirl to Assassin G — Writer Jen Troy Leaps into the Immortal Storyverse
Immortal Studios’ Immortal Storyverse expands with its latest comic series, Assasin G, written by CW’s Supergirl writer, Jen Troy, with art by He Tao, and featuring colors by Hi-Fi Design and letters by AndWorld Design. Based on Wuxia Master Shiao Yi’s 甘 19 妹 (Gan the 19th Sister), Assassin G joins the Immortal Storyverse with…
ESSAY: Subnormality at 15: A Retrospective
The first thing you need to know about Winston Rowntree’s webcomic Subnormality is that there’s a lot of it. Rowntree began posting in 2007, and as of this writing, there are 231 installments. And many of those 231 installments are gigantic infinite-canvas extravaganzas that can take the better part of an hour to read. It’s…
REVIEW: Wrassle Castle: Learning The Ropes Puts a Headlock on Fun
Colleen Coover, Paul Tobin, and Galaador’s Wrassle Castle is just plain adorable. It’s reminiscent of The Lumberjanes due to its spunky can-do attitude and bright and eye-catching art, both of which breathe life into an indomitable and funny protagonist and her circle of wrestling-loving friends.
INTERVIEW: Phil Smith’s Interstellar Court is in Session in Brik Jones: Attorney for Earth
Through a strange twist of fate, a selfish, self-centered attorney ends up representing Earth in the Interstellar court. Case by case, Brik Jones: Attorney for Earth is actually saving our planet from an interstellar invasion.
REVIEW: Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries a Laugh Out Loud Collection With Heart
If you could imagine yourself as an animal what would you pick? Comics artist Grace Gogarty, perhaps better known to the internet by their handle Little Tunny, draws themself as an adorably bug-eyed yellow snail. This gastropodsona is the titular protagonist of Gogarty’s semi-autobiographical debut comics collection Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries.
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…
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…