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The Thursday Book Beat: Diversity Discussions in Publishing Take the Transcontinental Stage

Welcome back to Book Beat, readers! It’s been a pretty busy week for the book industry, and leading the news charge is the release of Lee & Low’s diversity baseline survey results. 34 publishers and 8 literary review journals participated, including Big Six publishers Penguin Random House, Scholastic, and Macmillan. Unsurprisingly, the results of the…

The Thursday Book Beat: Chicago Students Protest Library Closure

Simon & Schuster to publish Taylor Swift “scrapbook” Fans will get a chance to help create the book, a collection of magazine articles and other memorabilia documenting Swift’s career. An honourary author will be named from the winners of a video contest hosted by the publisher, and fans can also enter to suggest titles for…

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Space Opera, Social Commentary and Twisted Fairy Tales Win at China’s First Hugo Awards

The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards were announced this Saturday. A whole year’s worth of science fiction and fantasy talent as voted for by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) were duly honoured with gleaming trophies in the shape of a panda with a rocket. The winner of the Hugo Award for…

ESSAY: The Role of Dōjinshi in Comic Fanzine Discourse

In December 2021, a conversation concerning the definition of the term “zine” unfolded on Twitter. This conversation arose from anxieties surrounding the rise of professionally printed and highly selective fanzines. Many comic artists lamented what they perceived as a betrayal of the DIY ethos of North American zine culture, while others expressed their frustrations regarding…

An illustrated four panel comic sequence. In the first panel, a woman talks to another woman asking, "Hi! I'm new--I'm not sure who I'm looking for..." In the second panel, she receives a response that says, "Where's you PPE? You need a hard hat!" In the third panel, the woman, wearing a sweater over a collared shirt, says, "Um", and she wears personal protective equipment in the fourth panel.

Roundtable: Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Here at WWAC, we’ve been fans of Kate Beaton for a long time, so we were especially excited for the publication of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Beaton’s highly anticipated memoir of her time working in the isolated Alberta oil-mining camps. At over 400 pages of Beaton’s distinctive intimate and emotional style, Ducks…

A screenshot of the current Comixology storefront on the Amazon website -- there is a black and teal banner reading "Welcome to the new Comixology digital comics, graphic novels & manga store." The logo, a teal circle is an X on it, is to the side of the word "Comixology," which is the largest word on the banner.

Ch-Ch-Changes! A Roundtable on Comixology’s New Look

Change is hard. But when it’s the largest platform for digital comics, it can be even harder.  The long-awaited Comixology full integration with Amazon Marketplace arrived last week, removing the dedicated Comixology storefront. Now, all purchases go through Amazon’s main site, and work similarly to Kindle purchases. The main Comixology app also got a new…

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