The new year is well under way and, while it’s always important to look forward, reviewing the past can be helpful too, especially if you missed something great here at WWAC. And while you’re at it, take a walk through our archives with Melinda Pierce’s This Week in WWAC History! On Monday… There’s bad news…
Shinbun Saturday: New Cardcaptor Sakura Manga On the Horizon
Welcome to another week of manga news! It’s my hope that you’re reading this with sunlight streaming through your windows, as I’m currently typing away with 5 centimetres of snow on the ground. That said, I think this week’s headlines might brighten up some days. Fans of classic manga Cardcaptor Sakura received confirmation of a…
Yo-Kai Watch Toy Review
Back in October, Ardo and I were invited to a breakfast at New York Comic Con that was celebrating the launch of Yo-Kai Watch products for North American audiences. The anime was debuting, along with a multi-faceted push that spanned from a tie-in manga to video games to toys. We were contacted to review some of the toys we saw that day,…
Music Videos That Shaped Me: AFI’s “The Leaving Song, Part I”
I could not tell if the singer was a man or a woman. All I knew is that they made me feel queasy.
Magical Girls Who Are Jerks: Interview with Kel McDonald of Misfits of Avalon
Last year, we received a preview for a comic by Kel McDonald (Dark Horse Presents, Angel & Faith, Adventure Time) about a group of magical girls “who are jerks” called Misfits of Avalon. Having grown up on a good dose of Sailor Moon (and loving the fun play on The Mists of Avalon), I couldn’t help, but…
Colorist on Color: The Introduction
Introducing the first of hopefully many articles on color. Our new columnist Marissa Louise is a colorist, but here she’s a color commentator. Why? She’ll tell you.
DC Daily Planet: Go on tour with Black Canary
Welcome to the end of a blissfully slow news week here in our little corner of the DCU. Things have settled down in a major way but this calm is likely only going to last another two weeks or so before major events like the Wondercon Rebirth announcements, the solicits for June, and the release…
#TouchYourselfTonight: Let’s Take Deadpool Seriously for a Moment
It’s unlikely that my sister-in-law will ever see Deadpool. She does not like violence. She’s also just rung the bell after six years of fighting cancer. She’s beaten the disease, but that doesn’t make hearing the “c-word,” much less watching someone else deal with it, very easy to handle any time soon. Meanwhile, a friend…
Picture This: Gyo Fujikawa
I picked up my first Gyo Fujikawa book as a teenager in a used bookstore, because the cute, gentle artwork caught my eye. Titled simply Mother Goose, it was a hefty book containing many traditional folk and nursery rhymes and an equally impressive number of illustrations. The pages alternated between delicate pen-and-ink spots and cheerful…
Book Review: Wide Awake in Slumberland
Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay Katherine Roeder University Press of Mississippi January 1, 2013 Given the current situation of newspaper comics, it’s sometimes hard to believe that a century ago they were big business, wildly popular, and the source of some of the most innovative…
The Thursday Book Beat: Sarah Shahi Cast as Nancy Drew
Hello readers! Much like the snow that blanketed Toronto last night and delighted my puppy, there’s been a rather interesting wave of bookish news this week. Let’s get started! It is with huge sadness that we can confirm the death of our much loved author and friend, Louise Rennison. — HarperCollinsUK (@HarperCollinsUK) February 29, 2016…
Eating Disorders and Polyamory in Kat Verhoeven’s Meat & Bone
I first fell in love with indie and alternative comics because they told the stories I was craving. Before I could even articulate why I needed to see queer people on the page, I would obsessively seek out artists who were creating characters missing from the mainstream. When I stumbled on Meat & Bone several months back, I…
