Did you miss out on one of our great pieces this week? Never fear! I’ve got it all right here for you! Find out what’s kept us busy this week. On Monday… Melissa Brinks talks fashion, fantasy, and kicking butt in video games. Alenka Figa interviews the women who helped shaped her life: her mother, and…
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…
Reading Diaries: A Few Gems Among the Disappointments
Last month we shared our reading resolutions for 2015. This month we checked in to see how everyone is doing. Christa: Since the new year started with me moving to a new city and starting a new job I haven’t had as much time to read as I would like. But I’m currently in the middle…
Weekend Review
KDrama time travel, Megan P. learns patience, and kittens explode. Here’s what’s been going on this week at WWAC.
The Thursday Book Beat: Saying Goodbye to Norman Bridwell
Christa here, filling in for Ardo for this week’s Thursday Book Beat. There was a lot of book news this week so let’s dive right in. Norman Bridwell, creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, has passed away The legendary creator was 86 years old. The Clifford books have sold millions of copies in 13 language and have…
Con Diary: To Me, My X-Men! X-Men ’97 Premiere at Toronto Comicon 2024
The Canadian premiere of X-Men ’97 during the second day of Toronto Comicon 2024 was a highly anticipated event. But with limited seating available, X-Men fans had to get to the con earlier than expected.
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…
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…
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…
REVIEW: X Lives of Wolverine #2 Keeps Going Back
While Moira’s on the run in X Deaths of Wolverine, we return to Logan’s ? journey through the past ? in the second issue of X Lives of Wolverine. Torn between saving the future and atoning for his past, Wolverine is confronted with some difficult decisions and a lot of tentacles.