I first met Trina Robbins at Comic-Con International: San Diego in 2018 during an annual breakfast organized and hosted by Kim Munson. My friend Michael Dooley was intent on Robbins and I meeting due to shared interests in romance comics and women’s influence in comics history, and made sure we sat next to each other….
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Ron Cacace of Archie Comics
Bite-Sized Archie writer Ron Cacace makes his mainline Archie debut in Archie Comics Digest #345. Combining Ethel Muggs, Jughead Jones, and a whole lot of Christmas chaos. Ron sat down with us to tell us what he wanted to include in his debut but did not, and a whole bunch of other tidbits about his creative…
ROSIE READS: Mayor Good Boy Turns Bad, 6 Quick Questions With Dave Scheidt
The delightful dog mayor is back for a third adventure! Hello lovely WWAC readers and welcome to my new column Rosie Reads. If you’re coming over from my now defunct Substack thank you so much for your support and if you’re just a regular WWAC visitor then welcome. I began my career as a writer…
INTERVIEW: Writing Comics Scripts with Jamila Rowser: Part Three
We’ve final reached the third and final part of our interview with Jamila Rowser about writing good comics scripts! In parts one and two we focused on all the work necessary for working with a single artist, but in part three we tackle the possibility of a large creative team, mainly editors and sensitivity readers….
INTERVIEW: Writing Comic Scripts with Jamila Rowser: Part Two
Welcome back to our interview series with Jamila Rowser, founder of Black Josei Press, about writing comics scripts! Part One addressed the nitty gritty of writing scripts — how many visuals to include, maintaining good communication with your artist through the drawing and editing process, and when to include fields of horses and complicated machinery.
INTERVIEW with an illustrator: Julia Warren’s Dreamy Alice
Earlier this year, artist Julia Warren independently published an edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with her new illustrations, surreal digital collages with rich color and a fitting dream-like quality. She corresponded with me extensively to answer my many questions about her inspirations and process.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Timmy Heague, Danielle Paige and Michael Northrop of Fear the Funhouse: Toybox of Terror
If you’re not ready to give up spooky season, then maybe Fear the Funhouse: Toybox of Terror is the Archie title for you! If you love a haunted doll, keep reading to see our exclusive interview!
INTERVIEW: Writing Comics Scripts with Jamila Rowser: Part One
On June 10, after news hit Twitter (well, the website now formerly known as Twitter) that artist and animator Ian McGinty had passed away at 38, cartoonist Shivana Sookdeo started the hashtag #ComicsBrokeMe. Stories poured onto social media via the hashtag, revealing how overworked, underpaid, and exploited artists are in both comics and animation. As…
INTERVIEW: Sabir Pirzada on Ms. Marvel, Mutants, and More
Fresh off the publication of Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1, I got the chance to talk to the comic’s co-writer Sabir Pirzada, about working with the onscreen Kamala Khan, Iman Vellani, and writing for comics and television across his career (including the Disney+ Marvel Studios Ms. Marvel and Moon Knight series). In addition to…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Bite-Sized Archie’s Ron Cacace and Vincent Lovallo
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INTERVIEW: Tracy White Illuminates the Saga of Asylum-Seeking Teens in Unaccompanied
In Unaccompanied: Brave Stories of Teenagers Seeking Asylum, cartoonist Tracy White presents stories of migrant teens reaching the United States without parents, and going through the legal process of pleading their asylum cases here. Varied and harrowing, these stories illuminate the terrible situations these kids flee, and the system they need to navigate on arrival….
INTERVIEW: Ben Wilgus chats about Grace Needs Space!
Grace Needs Space! is an immersive and heartening graphic novel about a kid traveling in space in a realistic far future! I, an extremely lucky person, have been friends with the writer Ben Wilgus since college. I got to ask him a bunch of questions about creating Grace, her moms, and the futuristic spacefaring world…