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Women Making Comics: Melina Chavarria and Jean Marie Pilario talk Creating Positive Latinx Representation in Comics

December 22, 2017

Comics have long been (incorrectly) seen as the realm of homogeneous white male creators. It’s not that marginalized creators haven’t always been making incredible comics, but that they have been exactly that: marginalized. Whether it’s the lack of representation in Big Two ...

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A Silent Voice is a Perfect Film

October 17, 2017

A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) Naoko Yamada (director), Reiko Yoshida (screenplay), Kazuya Takao (cinematographer), Kengo Shigemura (editor) Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yūki, Kenshō Ono, Yūki Kaneko (voice cast) Adapted from the manga A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Ōima October 20, 2017 (USA)

Reviews

The Book of Joan

September 12, 2017

The Book of Joan Lidia Yuknavitch HarperCollins April 18, 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Better, more eloquent people than me have reviewed Lidia Yuknavitch’s latest novel, The Book of Joan. It’s been covered by Publishers Weekly, NPR, and the ...

Essays

Remakes, Remasters, and the Myth of Gamer Illegitimacy

July 27, 2017

I often say that I’ve been playing games since I was a toddler, but that’s a lie. I grew up poor; we didn’t have money for luxuries like video games and especially not consoles, so while I trained my thumbs on Super Mario Bros. and spent countless hours exploring Donkey Kong Country, after that ...

Comic Strips, Comics

What Would Trumpcare Do To U.S. Comics?

July 3, 2017

The senate will vote on the AHCA (American Health Care Act) bill after they return from their July fourth recess. The controversy surrounding this bill is vast and has many Americans concerned about their future. Rightly so, as it seeks to overturn protections put in place by the previous ...

Comics, Political Comics, Profiles & Primers

Politically Cartoonish: May In Review

June 12, 2017

Hello, and welcome to the May edition of Politically Cartoonish. As with the rest of WWAC, the Politically Cartoonish column is working to include analyses of non-U.S. and non-Western issues. Readers are encouraged to send political cartoon suggestions to the author via her Twitter handle ...

Con Diaries, Zines

LA Zine Fest Got Everything Right

June 5, 2017

It’s rare to find a great comic convention. From the huge halls of the Javits centre where the world’s most attended comic-con NYCC is held to the Disneyland adjacent building site of WonderCon, comic cons are often huge, inaccessible with line-ups that are ninety percent straight ...

Comics, Reviews

Review: Six Days in Cincinnati

May 31, 2017

Six Days in Cincinnati Dan Mendez Moore (writer & illustrator), Matt Gouck (cover artist) Microcosm Publishing June 2017 Six Days in Cincinnati was reviewed using an advanced reader copy provided by Microcosm Publishing. Originally published as Mark Twain Was Right: The 2001 Cincinnati ...

Comics, Profiles & Primers

Ike Perlmutter! Get To Know Your Billionaire Marvel Chief Exec

May 5, 2017

When I spoke to BBC Radio Four’s Front Row about David Gabriel’s comments regarding “diversity” in Marvel Comics’ output (I’m about fifteen minutes in), I touched briefly on the power and influence of Isaac Perlmutter, more regularly known as Ike. My ...

Essays, Reviews

Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three: “Adolf, who?”

April 23, 2017

Even the name “Cold War” brings to mind long, slow, depressed periods of time. Yet, Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three offers constant humor and a spin on post-war Germany that I found mostly amusing, but often confusingly devoid of references to Nazis. When someone makes an ...

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Women Making Comics: Melina Chavarria and Jean Marie Pilario talk Creating Positive Latinx Representation in Comics

A Silent Voice is a Perfect Film

The Book of Joan

Remakes, Remasters, and the Myth of Gamer Illegitimacy

What Would Trumpcare Do To U.S. Comics?

Politically Cartoonish: May In Review

LA Zine Fest Got Everything Right

Review: Six Days in Cincinnati

Ike Perlmutter! Get To Know Your Billionaire Marvel Chief Exec

Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three: “Adolf, who?”

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