A Hell Of An Innocent Zidrou (Writer), Philippe Berthet (Artist), Dargaud (Belgium), Europe Comics (English) 18 April, 2018 Disclaimer: Izneo has provided WWAC with a VIP Access Pass. The small city of Dubbo, New South Wales, hasn’t seen much crime in its day. But the one crime that has lived with its residents, and continues…
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.
Con Diary: Rose City Comic Con 2018
I’d never been to Rose City before this year, despite only living three hours away. It’d been on my list for years, but given it always falls in September, it was difficult since it clashes with back-to-school time. However, with my youngest turning eighteen, this year was the perfect year to start, so off I…
Why We Loved Dream Daddy #1
Dream Daddy #1 Wendy Xu (writer), Ryan Maniulit (art and colors), Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (letterer) Oni Press August 2018 Hello and welcome to this group review of Dream Daddy #1. WWAC will be hosting group reviews of each of the Dream Daddy comics in the series.
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…
Previously, on Comics: Controversy and Comicsgate
The news isn’t too cheerful this week, but there’s some hope and fun at the end! We’ll get there together.
Wash Day Teaches Black Women How To Care For Their Natural Hair
Wash Day Jamila Rowser (writer), Robyn Smith (illustrator), J.A. Micheline (script editor) Black Josei Press June 2018 Disclaimer: J.A. Micheline has written for Women Write About Comics. Wash Day is a mini slice-of-life comic that aims to show black women just how beautiful they are. The story, penned and illustrated by Jamila Rowser and Robyn…
Cover Girl: Miss Fury #1
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 Louis, Annie, and Brenda discuss Dynamite’s Miss Fury #1, which features five different covers by Billy Tucci, Emma Kubert, Ken Lashley, Mike McKone, and Jan Duursema.
Digital Reading and Reading Digitally
You are a digital reader. You’re probably reading this on a smartphone, tablet, or computer screen, but even if you were to read this off of a piece of paper, you’d still be a digital reader, because this essay was digitally mediated: typed into a word processing program before it was uploaded onto the website…
Is 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special More Than a Gimmick?
You know, I’ve never really read Judge Dredd. I mean, I know of him, I’ve seen both film adaptations, but the one time I even attempted to read the comics, I started with the first of those complete volumes from a few years ago and found it very hard to even get started on. I…
WWACommendations: X-23, The Wilds, The Wendy Project, Mermaid’s Promise, and More
What comics are you reading for fun lately? While many of us read various comics for research, curiosity, or to keep up with a series, there are certain comics we’re reading just for fun. In this roundtable, WWAC contributors gush about the comics they’ve been reading this past month that were a pure delight.
