Already a best-selling book author, Chelsea Cain stormed into comics with an Eisner-nominated run on Marvel’s Mockingbird that landed on Amazon’s best-seller list. It also infuriated a legion of internet trolls due to the now-infamous cover of issue 8 (plus the second collected trade paperback), where Bobbi Morse gazes out at the reader wearing a shirt that…
Marguerite Bennett on Changing the Gender Landscape of Comics
Marguerite Bennett is a name many will immediately recognise. She is the writer behind DC’s Batwoman and Bombshells, Marvel’s A-Force and Angela: Queen of Hel, as well as her own series, InSeXts and Animosity. There is one general theme in Bennett’s comics, something not often seen in comics creators’ bodies of work: a plethora of…
Jenn St-Onge on Updating Classic Female Characters for New Readers
Canadian comic artist Jenn St-Onge has made a name for herself bringing beloved classic characters into the modern age. With Jem and the Holograms and The Misfits and Nancy Drew now under her belt, St-Onge is poised to take over the world. We caught up with St-Onge at the Fan Expo Canada to find out about…
The Future is Female! An Interview with Lisa Yaszek
Lisa Yaszek, a professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, has been studying the role of women in science fiction history for years. This month, the Library of America will publish her most recent project, The Future is Female!, an edited collection of science fiction stories by American women published from the year 1928…
PUBWATCH: How Now Top Cow! September
Welcome to Top Cow Pubwatch volume 2. I’ve been busy reading up on all of Top Cow’s offerings since my last Pubwatch and I can’t express enough how much I am loving the variety of stories they have to offer, from super heroes to romance and so much more. At WWAC, we’ve been busy with…
Celebrate Punk Music and Community with Liz Prince’s Be Your Own Backing Band
Be Your Own Backing Band Liz Prince, Hannah Templer (colorist) Silver Sprocket August 2018 Disclaimer: A review copy of this book was provided by the publisher. There’s an incredibly profound short comic in Liz Prince’s new, now fully-colored comics collection, Be Your Own Backing Band. When Prince’s childhood cat passed away, her family was able…
Q&A With Kiersten White Author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
In The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, Kiersten White refocuses Mary Shelley’s original narrative structure on Elizabeth Lavenza and conjures a much darker and more cunning vision of Victor Frankenstein’s devoted wife-to-be.
Infinite Dark: Ryan Cady Wants to Keep You Up at Night
Infinite Dark’s opening pages set up a very gloomy, lonely atmosphere, with the weight of a heat dead world on Security Director Deva Karrell’s shoulders. The sense of loss and isolation is very heavy, to the point where a grizzly murder almost feels like a breath of fresh air against such pressing darkness. But, writer…
Behind the Scenes with Oni and Limerence Press’ Ari Yarwood
In our Editorial Eye series, we go behind the scenes with comic and book editors to learn about their role in the creative process and discover how their passion for their industry helps shape their work. Several comic companies have introduced imprints that cover more adult stories, which means books that invariably involve sex. In…
Rye Hickman Talks About the Cyberpunk World of Moth & Whisper
Moth & Whisper is one of the newest titles that will be coming out soon from AfterShock comics and is a tale of crime, intrigue, glamorous thieves, and a genderqueer protagonist that has to take up the family business(es) if they want to save their family. We had a chance to talk with artist Rye…
V.E. Schwab Talks Crossing Into Comics With Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince
V.E. Schwab thought she’d left her Shades of Magic series behind with the conclusion of the trilogy in A Conjuring of Light. But she realized that there were still more stories to tell, even as she worked on the sequel to her first book Vicious. Her new trilogy, Threads of Power, will step into the future…
Completing the Quest: An Interview with Elfquest’s Wendy and Richard Pini
ElfQuest began in 1978, and wrapped up in February of this year, a full 40 years of pointy ears, Wolfriders, and magic. Creators Wendy and Richard Pini started their own publishing company by ElfQuest #2, and had a runaway hit on their hands. ElfQuest has been published by WaRP Graphic, Marvel, DC, and now Dark…
