Approximately 15% of the world’s population has some kind of disability, but in pop culture people with disabilities are rarely seen: only 1% of characters have some kind of disability in American television shows.
Get Your Game on Wednesday
Another week, another Wednesday! I’m still catching up from a long weekend, but managed to find some game nuggets to tide us all over until the next weekend raid. Adventure awaits! Former Bioshock developers are creating a new horror game Perception is a first-person horror game with a blind female lead. Using the sound…
Crypt of the NecroDancer: You Are the Dancing Queen
Crypt of the NecroDancer Brace Yourself Games PC, Mac, Linux April 23, 2015 (Note: WWAC reviewed Crypt of the NecroDancer with a review copy and a Crypt of the NecroDancer dance pad from Brace Yourself Games.) Dance like nobody’s watching. The only time I’m happily dancing is when no one is in the room or if it’s…
WWAC Crafters: Oiled Up: Guzoline Fan-Painting
I am not an artist, but I love to make art. Well, maybe I am an artist then, but not a very good one. Untrained. There, that’s more fair to me. I don’t think that should stop anyone from creating though. I learned to knit from YouTube, where I also learned to quilt and to papercut. It’s…
Come into the Valley: Uncanny Magazine Volume 4
I’m a relative newcomer to science-fiction/fantasy (SFF) magazines, mostly because there are so many out there to peruse. Uncanny Magazine came my way after discovering the poem “The Eaters” by Filipina poet M. Sereno, published in volume 3, and it was enough to convince me to try another issue. Hugo Award-winner Lynne M. Thomas and…
Bowed, Bent, and Broken: Responses to THAT Episode of Game of Thrones
Content warning: Discussion of sexual assault. The Internet has been buzzing since last May 17th’s Game of Thrones episode, “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”. What follows contains spoilers from both the book and show, as well as discussion of sexual assault.
Short & Sweet: TCAF Edition!
OTP Maki Naro Self Published 2015 Maki Naro calls OTP the first Triassic romance comic. In 1975, paleontologists found a Triassic era fossilized cast. In 2012, we finally found out was inside the cast, thanks to the European Synchronotron Radiation Facility, which peered inside the cast and discovered two animals, locked in a fatal embrace:…
Bug Girl: An Interview with The Last Cowboy’s Zoe Coughlin
Space. Aliens. Diverse women. Beautiful art. In The Last Cowboy, I’ve found one of my new favorite webcomics, AND I got to chat about it with the creator, Zoe Coughlin.
Fat Hate at Lilly P: When Cartooning is Used For Evil
Lilly Pulitzer! Not usually our bailiwick. An American clothing brand for the modern-day Jackie O throwback, if Jackie were more of a follower and went for ditsy prints instead of block colour. But they’ve gone and brought cartooning into their PR yard, and they’ve used it for evil, and that makes it our business, awrite?…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Tintin Never Gets Motion Sickness Now Proven By SCIENCE
Physicians Publish Paper on Tintin, Because Apparently This Is Science? In an actual medical study, a group of physicians have produced their paper chronicling the intrepid Belgian adventuring boy’s various injuries and ailments 1930 – 1974, which included oodles of concussions and the occasional chloroform poisoning. I THINK the purpose of this study was to…
This One’s For The Girls: Female Authors at Book Expo America
Book Expo America. That special time, once a year, when publishers from across North America gather in New York to talk shop. They roll out the banners and the swag, and pass out their upcoming titles to booksellers, librarians, and media. For attendees, it’s a chance to get a sneak peek at what’s up in…
From the Birth of a Queen to The END: Female Foils in Mecha Anime
There are two sides to everything, even robots. In fact, especially robots. They are pleasingly geometric. Mecha anime and manga are a goldmine for series about political intrigue, the powers of love and friendship, and the giant robots that tie stories and characters together. One trend I’ve noticed across this genre is the female foil:…
