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…
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…
INTERVIEW: Exploring the Outer Wilderness with Claire Scully
London-based freelance illustrator Claire Scully goes beyond the edges of the universe in the third and final installment of her introspective journey through self-imagined places. In the Outer Wilderness, Scully invites us to step into the unknown through unique landscapes inspired by her love of science fiction, imagination, and space documentaries. As always, Scully’s work…
Twelve Percent Dread will Resonate and Satisfy: An Interview with 100% of Emily McGovern
Emily McGovern’s latest graphic novel, Twelve Percent Dread, might increase your personal dread percentage, even as it entertains. It’s about roommates and former couple Katie and Nas, scrambling to get Nas’s visa approved and to survive in the gig economy. It’s also about a tech giant making terrible ethical decisions, and how their employees become…
INTERVIEW: James Aquilone Unleashes the Bard With Monstrous Results in Shakespeare Unleashed
“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams,” says Hamlet to Rosencrantz — or is it Guildenstern? — in James Aquilone’s favorite scenes from William Shakespeare. There are numerous lines that have stuck with Aquilone since reading the play in…
INTERVIEW: A Little Talk with Vincent Lovallo and Ron Cacace of Bite Sized Archie
The delightfully peppy world of Archie has been shrunk down into bite-sized bits! Keep reading to see our interview with the writer and artist for the webcomic Bite Sized Archie, Ron Cacace and Vincent Lovallo!
INTERVIEW: Alec Longstreth on Isle of Elsi
Alec Longstreth, creator of the Eisner-nominated webcomic Isle of Elsi, longrunning minicomic series Phase 7, and graphic novel Basewood, sat down with WWAC to talk about making comics for children, the challenges of serialization online, and Carl Barks.
INTERVIEW: Chris Grine Goes Everywhere With Secrets of Camp Whatever Vol. 2: The Doors to Nowhere
Summer camp in a creepy old town is the last thing Willow wanted to do, but after getting tangled up in the weird old camp’s ancient mysteries, she certainly can’t say that camp is boring! Now, a year older and wiser and sporting a new hair color, Willow returns in Camp Whatever Vol. 2: The…
INTERVIEW: Become One of the Justice Warriors With Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson
No matter how apolitical a work of art can be, all art is inherently political. Matt Bors, founder of political cartoon publication The Nib, leaned hard into this idea when he created his famous online journal in 2013. Now, nearly a decade later, Bors is retiring from his two decades of political cartooning for the…
INTERVIEW: Chanan Beizer on The Golem of Venice Beach
When debut comic book writer Chanan Beizer saw that ScreenCraft had opened the door for a graphic novel competition in 2018, he was all in, having already cut his teeth with applications for their screenplay contests. With judges putting keen eyes to over 1,200 entries, Beizer won top spot in the graphic novel category for…
INTERVIEW: So Much to See in Jessi Sheron’s The Sea in You
Lured into the ocean by the hypnotic melodies of a mythical creature, 15-year-old Corinth finds herself swept away in the most unlikely friendship. Reimagining The Little Mermaid fairy tale with a properly terrifying sea creature and a relationship that goes far deeper than yearning from a distance, Jessi Sheron makes us a part of her…
Taneka Stotts Dives Deep into Pinecone & Pony and Building a Truly Inclusive Creative Team
Taneka Stotts made a name for herself in the comic book community as a vibrant and brilliant writer, editor, and comic book publisher. But a few years ago she began to carve out a new career in animation. Since then, credits on Steven Universe, Craig of the Creek, and My Little Pony have made her…
