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COMICS ACADEME: Comics Are a Graphic Education for Dyslexic Readers

November 2, 2023

I am more than a fan of comics. I have made them my career, and I advocate for their importance any chance I get. One of the major reasons why I do so is because of the impact comics have had on me as a dyslexic woman, as well as the potential they have to be academic resources for students who ...

Comics Academe

Rereading Bitch Planet in 2021: Basic Bitches & Blackface

June 25, 2021

I write this on what is the traditional land of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nations. In the first part of this series, I examined the main narrative of Bitch Planet through a critical race theory framework. Critical race theory is a theoretical framework developed by mostly Black ...

Comics, Comics Academe

Rereading Bitch Planet in 2021: Back Off, Karens

February 26, 2021

I write this on what is the traditional land of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nations. I was introduced to comic books by my father and brother. Comic books are a traditionally male-dominated sphere and women trying to enter into this sphere experience misogyny, gate-keeping, bias and ...

Comics, Roundtables, Style & Fashion

Four-Color to Forearms: WWACers and Comic Book Tattoos

December 27, 2019

Tattoos are a way to permanently declare your allegiance, your identification, your love. It should be no surprise, then, that a lot of WWAC contributors have fabulous comics tattoos. If you’re considering a comics tattoo yourself (I am!), let this photo gallery serve as inspiration.

Comics

Previously

October 30, 2017

Good morning! I hope you’re starting your week off well. It’s been a couple of weeks since we rounded up the news, but we’re back at it! First, here’s the more recent stuff: You may have noticed some changes around here! WWAC has some sisters now; our games coverage has ...

Comics, Webcomics

Previously on Comics: Captain Phasma Is Here!

April 17, 2017

Welcome back to another week of Previously on Comics! If I haven’t mentioned how glad I am to not be writing weekly news round-ups exclusively about Marvel, the last two weeks have reminded me. It’s been fuck up after fuck up, to put it bluntly, and I’m going to defer to the words of the ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Roundtables

Comics Academe Roundtable: Teaching Bitch Planet

August 26, 2016

Since the publication of the first issue of Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro in December of 2014, many people, inside and outside of academia, have pointed to the comic, the related backmatter and essays, and even the community that has formed around it–as ...

Bitch Planet

COMICS ACADEME: Comics Are a Graphic Education for Dyslexic Readers

Rereading Bitch Planet in 2021: Basic Bitches & Blackface

Rereading Bitch Planet in 2021: Back Off, Karens

Four-Color to Forearms: WWACers and Comic Book Tattoos

Previously

Previously on Comics: Captain Phasma Is Here!

Comics Academe Roundtable: Teaching Bitch Planet

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