Last year, instead of resolutions, I opted for rememberlutions. I got this idea from a Buzzfeed article and thought the idea was pretty neat: “New Year’s resolutions can be energizing and motivating, but they can also lead you to beat yourself up; focusing on the previous year’s failures to figure out where to do better…
The Tuskegee Heirs Will Soon Take Flight
[Editor’s note January 14, 2015: The Tuskegee Heirs Kickstarter has launched!] As a kid, I was completely obsessed with the Tuskegee Airmen. I read biographies, killed my Tuskegee Airmen videotape, did my best to know everything possible about the people and the times. This was in part because my grandfather, himself a member of the…
Mighty Marvel Monday: New Year, New Stuff
Happy New Year! And welcome back to another Mighty Marvel Monday, the weekly Marvel news column predicated on the belief that in an age of information overload, it’s easy to miss what’s actually going on. Who has time to actually read all of the dozens of links posted each day? And more importantly, why should…
YA? Y Not?! My New Years Resolutions for YA
It’s the time of year when many people are making New Years Resolutions. For myself, I like to give myself hopes and goals for the year because as soon as I call something a “resolution” it tends to never happen. Instead of sharing my personal resolutions-that-are-really-hopes, I thought I’d make some for Young Adult literature….
Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
At four a.m. on Friday morning I sat in the quietest theater I’d ever experienced. The family of loudly obnoxious chewers next to me had all put down their popcorn, the small children a few rows ahead of me were statuesque, and I was acutely aware of my own breathing volume. Then that familiar music…
Winter Break Stretches On: How to Game with Your Family
Last year I introduced my mother to the wonders of modern board games and it was amazing. Rather than loll about on the couch after consuming way too much turkey, we worked together to stop some diseases threatening to wipe out civilization. And while I haven’t converted her into a full-fledged gamer, you too can…
Zine Review: Sporgo No. 1
Sporgo No. 1 Lara Pallmall Laura Pallmall is a relatively new comic creator, with only a couple years of zine-making under her belt. Like many artists working in the punk scene, she started out by illustrating album covers, posters and t-shirts. “My drawings would go on flyers and band merch and then just kind of…
Knit Your Comics: BB-8 Ornament and Chart
On the 12th Day of Christmas my true love gave to me … a BB-8 ornament on a Christmas tree!
So You Wrote a Racist Book…
Back in June, WWAC staff writer Angel reviewed Katie M. Stout’s debut young adult novel Hello, I Love You and said, “The generalizations and stereotypes packed into this novel are simply astounding.” She wasn’t the only one with issues on how the book tackled race and when the pressure mounted for Stout online (and with some people attacking…
Cook Your Comics: Wookiee Life Day Cookiees
The holidays are here again, and this year, we have Star Wars in the mix. The big holiday in the Star Wars universe is Wookiee Life Day, as first depicted in 1978’s so-bad-it’s-not-remotely-good The Star Wars Holiday Special. Despite LucasFilm’s best efforts to erase it from the world’s collective memory, the legacy of The Star…
It’s Hard To Be A Girl: Self Image, or Selling Image?
It’s Hard To Be A Girl Bach (creator), Nora Goldberg (translator) Soaring Penguin Press October 2015 I went to the launch for It’s Hard To Be A Girl in late October. The event was, in a word, delightful. Soaring Press organized a very nice evening, held at the Québec Government Office in London. It featured…
Merry Scary Christmas: The Wolfman and The Wolf Man
“Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” — original poem written for The Wolf Man In 2010, when I watched The Wolfman in the theater, I’d never seen the 1941 original The Wolf Man….
