Welcome back to WWAC’s coverage of the 2022 Hugo Award finalists. Having reviewed the six finalists competing for Best Short Story we now move on to the Best Novelette category, starting with “That Story isn’t the Story” by John Wiswell and “Bots of the Lost Ark” by Suzanne Palmer…
REVIEW: The Greatest Thing Is a Love Letter to Gay Teens and Queer Zines
The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle (Sincerely, Harriet; Patience and Esther; and a former WWAC contributor!) is a bittersweet story about an aspiring artist who channels her dreams and anxieties into a series of comic zines. With its honest writing and soft pastel art, this graphic novel explores the realities of being a queer…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: July 2022
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for the month of July! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, and here’s this month’s news! In this month’s Archie Comics Pubwatch, even more Archie Horror titles have been announced for the fall, The CW announces a Jake Chang spin-off series, Sabrina gets a…
[PREVIEW] World of Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #17
World of Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #17 is, as always, all about the love between Bets and Ronnie. That bond is often tested by outside forces, but they always manage to reunite in the name of friendship. In this month’s edition of the girls’ ongoing book, Betty and Veronica embark on a Riverdale-wide scavenger…
Previously on Comics: Do None of These People Know How to Operate Businesses Like Adults, or (Redux)
Hello faithful readers! Kate here, back again to provide a review of the past week’s comics news for people like me, who log in to Twitter once a week and have no idea what people are talking about most of the time. This week, it’s all about publishing and specifically, what NOT to do, because…
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Temporal Chaos Reigns in G.I.L.T. #4
Urban fantasy fans have a new heroine in Hildy Winters, stylish resident of New York City’s Upper West Side and member of the Guild of Independent Lady Temporalists. WWAC offers this exclusive preview of Ahoy Comics’ G.I.L.T, #4, the penultimate issue of this witty time-travel adventure series by Alisa Kwitney and Mauricet.
VIZ Pubwatch July 2022
Welcome back to another VIZ Media pubwatch, dear readers! It’s the height of the summer anime season, the height of convention season, and the height of “new volumes of ongoing series I like being released by VIZ” season. And I can’t wait to talk about those new volumes! But first, the VIZ anime news.
INTERVIEW: Tom Humberstone Takes a Legend to Court in Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis
Suzanne Lenglen was one of the world’s greatest tennis players. A revolutionary player during her career that spanned 1921 to 1927, she combined her balletic training with the more aggressive style of men’s tennis and broke conventions with her iconic style and fashion that were less about modesty and more about actually playing the game…
Previously On Comics: Solemn Goodbyes
Good morning friends. I fear the news of late is just a list of obituaries and condolences and sadly this week is no different. Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! passed away this week. We also send our condolences to the family and friends of author, critic, and cartoonist R.C. Harvey who sadly passed…
INTERVIEW: Magnolia Porter Siddell on The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell‘s newest webcomic, The Golden Boar, began in March 2022 and tells the story of Merro and the fantastic island world of Moonforest that is home to a reclusive magical community. Here, Porter Siddell shares some of the ideas behind The Golden Boar — from character and world design to how her past…
2022 Hugo Awards: Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather/Unknown Number
Our coverage of the 2022 Hugo Awards continues with a look at the final two contenders for Best Short Story: “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” by Sarah Pinsker and “Unknown Number” by Blue Neustifter.
[Exclusive Preview] Cicatrix — Elle’s Comic on The Philippines/American Complicacy
The U.S.A. is a country built on war, feeding off of the unrest and upheavals across the world. In Cicatrix, indie artist Elle digs into America’s involvement — and the author’s family’s involvement — in propping up brutal regimes in The Philippines and atrocities around the world. Through beautiful illustrations, they poignantly unpack their own…