A new year is a great time to take a long hard look at your bookshelves, wish lists, and to-read pile, but it’s not always easy to decide what to read next. We’re here to help with the brand new BOOKMARKED READING CHALLENGE! Our team has put together a list of some fun, some serious…
[EXCLUSIVE] We Are Here Forever Cover Reveal + Interview with Michelle Gish
Michelle Gish’s adorable post-apocalyptic webcomic started on Tumblr and quickly amassed over 18,000 followers. We Are Here Forever chronicles the adventures of adorable purple creatures called the Puramus as they roam an Earth mysterious bereft of humans, collecting treasures, writing poetry, and developing governments. Quirk Books will be publishing a book based on these strips in…
Lela Gwenn Turns Disaster Into Profit With Bad Luck Chuck
For some people, good fortune seems to mark their every step. But the people who are on Lady Luck’s bad side don’t have to take their unfortunate events lying down. Charlotte “Chuck” Manchester has turned her bad luck curse into cold, hard cash, hiring out her special brand of disaster for a price. But bad…
The Fine Art of Geeky Adult Colouring Books
One of my fondest childhood memories is colouring with my mom. We had numerous colouring books and those big boxes of Crayola crayons—the ones that came with the built-in sharpener in the box—and we’d sit for hours and just colour. I always tried to emulate the way she’d trace darker lines along the inside edges of…
Previously On Comics: Ask Me About My Trans Exclusionary Feminist Agenda
While the majority of us are still too busy trying to recover from the holidays to get caught up in trash and nonsense, comics never truly rest and the news just keeps on coming. We started the year with the news that the chairman of IDW has recently loaned the company $28 million to help…
Cover Girl: Red Sonja #25
Welcome to Cover Girl. Each month, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Lisa, Claire, Kayleigh, Amanda, Laura, and Louis discuss Erica Henderson’s variant cover of Red Sonja #25.
Three Stars and a Wish for the Pros of The Pros and (Comic) Cons
Hope Nicholson’s latest anthology, Pros and (Comic) Cons from Dark Horse Comics, features several industry professionals sharing stories and anecdotes about their convention experiences, which she talks about in an earlier interview with WWAC. Here we’re asking Nicholson and her contributors to share her “Three Stars and a Wish” about comic conventions. That is, read on…
Captain Britain Reading Diary 4: Napping on Your Cousin’s Sofa
After he left Peter Parker, Brian Braddock wasn’t seen for the next year and a half. His name didn’t appear on a masthead for the next four.
Top Cow Pubwatch: January
Though the Christmas season was slow for Top Cow’s publications, the publisher and its creators have lots on the horizon for the new year. Here’s a rundown of what’s been going on.
Book Beat: Indie Bookstore Sales and Good Omens
Hello again, readers! Welcome to the first Book Beat of 2019. I hope your year is off to a good start and that your celebrations were successful, whether they included parties, going to bed early, or anything in between. The book world has been pretty quiet over the holidays, so aside from 2018 reflections and…
Ordinary Girls, Not Yet Ordinary Women: Clueless: One Last Summer
Clueless: One Last Summer Amber Benson and Sarah Kuhn (writing); Siobhan Keenan (art); Cathy Le (colors); Jim Campbell (letters); Natacha Bustos (cover art) BOOM! Studios December, 2018 For ’90s kids who rented it every weekend from Blockbuster, Clueless represented something iconic. Delicious costuming, arch one-liners, and relatably memorable moments (Tai knocking herself out while dancing!…
Hipster Manga: 7 Seeds
7 Seeds Yumi Tamura Shougakukan Content warnings: 7 Seeds contains violence, death that is sometimes gruesome, and an attempted rape. Yumi Tamura hasn’t had a series released in English since Basara, her award-winning fantasy epic of the 1990s. This might lead her fans in the Anglosphere to think she’s stopped work or that she peaked…
