Happy New Year PUBWATCH family! I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 2022! I have a sense of optimism that hasn’t left the room just yet — perhaps it’s all the good comics on tap for this year. Let’s ride this wave as long as it lasts. This month, we plug along with Doctor Who:…
Previously On Comics: Aren’t You GLAAD I Didn’t Say Banana
Hello again! Kate here, with your news round-up for the third week of January. I didn’t see a ton of news, so I’m just going to focus on a few big things — two that are notable, one that will make you angry — and then end with a sad/happy thing.
Previously On Comics: Twenty-Twenty-Sue
Good morning! Before anything else, a hearty cheers for our former editor and occasional star writer, Adrienne Resha, who has just been named as a winner of the 2022 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award. Adrienne, you’re as brilliant as ever, and we’re so glad to know you. Congratulations! Now, as for the rest of you…
Previously on Comics: Image United, Indeed
Congratulations on dragging yourself through the first week or so of 2022. It’s been challenging, all of it, I know but look, a bunch of cool stuff happened too! Cool zine news! Danny Caine, the owner of Raven Bookshop in Lawrence, Kansas and creator of the zine ‘How To Resist Amazon and Why’ which…
Previously on Comics: For Betty
Betty White didn’t sacrifice herself to the gods for us to waste this new year, so let’s make 2022 all about fighting harder for what’s right, loving ourselves and each other more, and reading a whole lotta comics.
DC Pubwatch: End of Year Edition
Sorry about missing November, but I’m here to make it up for you at the end of the year. Hands down the best book of the last two months was Wonder Woman Historia and if you haven’t picked it up yet, I implore you to go buy the book, preferably in print.
A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup, December ‘21
Hello all! Welcome back to WWAC’s crowdfunding roundup. When I started/took over this column, I chose the descriptors carefully—this is meant to round up crowdfunding from all around the internet, not just one website in particular. In practice, however, this is usually a comics Kickstarter spotlight, due in part to the fact that Kickstarter has…
Titan Comics PUBWATCH: December 2021
I’m writing this on Boxing Day/Mall Return Day, with only five days left in all of 2021. In this tumultuous year, we have somehow made it to the end. And let me take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very Happy Holiday (whatever holiday you celebrate) and a Happy New Year. Here’s hoping…
Previously On Comics: Kickstarter Continues to Be the Worst, so Here are the Best Comics of 2021
Hello again from Kate! This will be the last Previously from me in this hellacious year of 2021, and while it still feels like 2020, I cannot wait for this year to be over. I’m not alone, because as you know, December is the time for all of the Year’s Best lists to come out…
Previously on Comics: Kickstarting Blockchains and Tributes to George Perez
Kickstarter has announced that it will be creating a new company to embrace cryptocurrencies:
Previously on Comics: Okay, Sure
Hey, what a week, right? I’m kidding, I have no idea, because I’m losing all concept of time. If you wanna read about some bros being bros and dudes rocking it up, there’s an interview in the Atlantic. Gina Gagliano is moving on from Random House Graphics, the imprint she founded two years ago. Her…
Vault Pubwatch: November 2021
If you’re a Goodreads user who happens to also like Brandon Sanderson’s Dark One, then you should get in on round one of the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards in the graphic novel category.