What better way to celebrate Pride than with a story-a-day anthology of queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror created entirely by queer authors? Now in its third year, Decoded Pride brings together 31 queer and trans creators sharing one short story a day through the month of June. Subscriptions cost $14.99USD, giving access to the…
Introducing the Standard Comic Script
When Steenz Stewart lost their job at Lion Forge in 2019, they went through a lot of pitches. Taking on freelance editorial work meant reading many scripts, and they quickly came to a realization when it came to the way they were formatted. “Every single script was different!” Stewart explains. “I thought, ‘This is exhausting…
INTERVIEW: Into the Immortal Storyverse with Rylend Grant on Fa Sheng: Origins
It’s the 19th century and China’s Boxer Uprising forces a young man named Fa Sheng to reevaluate his purpose. Turning attention to those in need and working to empower them to help themselves, he must face the corruption, cowardice, and ruthlessness of many adversaries. Written by Rylend Grant, with art by Dexter Wee, colors by…
INTERVIEW: Sam Sattin Revives a Classic with Unico: Awakening
Writer Sam Sattin and artist team Gurihiru are working together to revive Osamu Tezuka’s Unico, kickstarting the first volume of this new story under the title Unico: Awakening. Sattin, author of the graphic novel adaptation of the Cartoon Saloon film Wolfwalkers, was kind enough to answer WWAC’s questions about Unico, crowdfunding, and creative collaboration.
INTERVIEW: Steve Orlando’s Cosmic Mythical YA Adventure: Starward
For Stephanie Cohen, a young woman just tipping into her 20s, life is going exactly as planned — according to her parents. She’s breezing through on her way to earning a medical degree which is what her parents have wanted for her since birth, but had she been consulted on what she wanted, Stephanie would…
INTERVIEW: Lela Lee Is Back With Angry Little Asian Girl: Moments with My Mother
After 12 years, writer and illustrator Lela Lee returns with a new collection of Angry Little Asian Girl comics. Adding to the six previous books, along with an animated series, Angry Little Asian Girl: Moments with My Mother lets us in on the frustrations, misinterpretations, and expectations that come with navigating life as a grade-school…
INTERVIEW: Otava Heikkilä Breaks The Silence on Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord
Otava Heikkilä’s Letters for Lucardo is a delightful queer erotic horror comic that’s been crowdfunding volumes since 2016. It’s a must-read for fans of vampire fiction as a whole, and especially fans of the queer subtext found in stories like Interview With The Vampire; if you liked that film, imagine a comic where the queerness is much…
INTERVIEW: Emmett Hobbes on Royale and Webtoon
Emmett Hobbes is a prolific cartoonist and writer who is known for his work on the Rick and Morty comics and the graphic novel My Riot with Rick Spears. Last month, his Webtoon Original, Royale, launched on the platform, introducing readers to a queer, historical, surrealistic heist drama, with Hank Jones’s colors adding extra vibrancy…
INTERVIEW: BHP Comics’ Gary Chudleigh and Sha Nazir on Their Bold New Universe
Glasgow, Scotland-based indie publishing house BHP Comics is boldly stepping into a new universe of exciting new one-shot comics, crowdfunding now on Kickstarter. With each book promising its own jam-packed adventures with exciting and unique characters — including Britain’s first south-Asian superhero — the Bold Universe Collection then combines to tell a bigger story within a…
INTERVIEW: Alek Shrader and the The Arizona Opera Bring Carmen to a New Stage
Carmen is an auspicious name. Not just because it’s my mother’s name, but because it’s the title of one of the greatest operas of all time. Filled with drama and passion, it is the story of the downfall of Don José. He is a naïve young soldier in the 1830s who abandons his childhood sweetheart…
INTERVIEW: Unboxing Ron Wimberley’s GratNin with Beehive Books
Founded by artist and designer Maëlle Doliveux and writer and editor Josh O’Neill, Beehive Books is a boutique publishing company that likes “forgotten geniuses and lost works and mysterious tomes … things that were pulled out of antiquity, and work that seems to materialize from an impossibly distant future.” As far as geniuses go, designer,…
INTERVIEW: Casey Gilly and Joe Jaro Step Into the Future With Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer
Fast forward to the future and we find a 50-year-old Buffy Summers’ living in a world ravaged by climate change, with the vampire regime frolicking in dystopian harmony with their human cattle. With vampires capable of walking around by day unhindered thanks to a polluted sky, it’s Buffy who is hunted now. But rebellion is…