In case you didn’t realize, we really love comics here at WWAC. But often the sequential art that we love is born out of an industry that is flawed at best and exploitative at worst. It’s why we’re always excited to see creators coming together to forge brave new ways to share their work. The…
Hairology – A Comic Book Celebrating All Hair Types
New Crowdfunding Project Alert! Following the success of Bi Visibility: A Bisexual Anthology, Lifeline Comics launched a new anthology on Kickstarter Feb. 6th – Hairology. A 56-paged comic book all about hair with the creative minds of Kat Calamia (WEBTOON’s Slice of Life), Phil Falco (Slice of Life), and Jamila Rowser (Wash Day Diaries) at…
INTERVIEW: Amy Chu and Soo Lee Create a New Carmilla
Like many great adaptations, Carmilla is faithful to the source material while also modernizing it for a contemporary audience. The original Carmilla is a novel of gothic literature, a genre thematically marked by death, decay, opulence, innocence, and the supernatural [Editor’s note: Read our Carmilla Roundtable for the 150th anniversary for some more perspectives about…
INTERVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Alisa Kwitney Turns Back Time in G.I.L.T
What if you could go back in time and fix a thing or two in your past? In a Golden Girls meets Twilight Zone meets Sex and the City escapade called G.I.L.T., creator Alisa Kwitney explores this very question. “[I]f you travel back in time, the only way to create any change would be to…
INTERVIEW & PREVIEW: Peter and Poe Are Back With Ahoy Comics’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Death
First, there’s terror, then there’s blood. What comes after blood you ask? Why, death, of course, as Ahoy Comics gathers up the finest and funniest frightful fables, narrated by the saddest and drunkest ghost poet of our times in Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Death. Collecting all six issues under the watchful eyes of editor…
INTERVIEW: Melanie Gillman Chats About Craving Queer Community in Other Ever Afters
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales collects Melanie Gillman’s fairy tale comics in their distinctive lush colored pencil art. The stories are diverse, poignant, and progressive, and I was thrilled to sit down with Melanie Gillman over Zoom recently and ask all kinds of questions about fairy tales, queerness, and their intersections.
INTERVIEW: Filipa Estrela Explores Meandering Realms
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…
INTERVIEW: A History Lesson on The Comic Convention With Mathew Klickstein
Dragon Con. NY Comic-Con. Flame Con. SDCC. The comic convention as juggernaut may seem like a recent occurrence, but the journey to get there stretches back five decades. To understand the present (and what the future may hold), we must look to the past. Pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein’s new book, See You At San…
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…
INTERVIEW: All Rise for Joseph P. Illidge, Shawn Martinbrough, and Judge Kim
What happens when Joseph P. Illidge, the Executive Editor of the very adult comics of Heavy Metal, gets together with Shawn Martinbrough, the author of How to Draw Noir Comics? Why, they make a kids’ comic, of course! Introducing Judge Kim and The Case of the Missing Bicycles, the first in the Judge Kim and…
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…
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.