The recent announcement of a Jem live action movie was followed by a lot of buzz. Just as quickly as the excitement took off, the skepticism reared its head, as word got out that creator Christy Marx was not going to be included in the project. So how do fans really feel? We reached out…
News & Things: Awesome Art
21st Century Tank Girl on Kickstarter Original co-creator Alan Martin’s campaign to create an all-new Tank Girl book. Although it’s Alan’s project, original co-creator Jaime Hewlett has agreed to do art for the covers. Bra Week Features Busty Girl Comics Over the next week or so, Autostraddle covers the topic near and dear to our…
News & Things: Hellfighters and Snow Queens
New Book on Black WWII Soldiers Combines History and Entertainment Coming from World War Z author Max Brooks and Uber artist Canaan White, the new graphic novel Harlem Hellfighters follows the black soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment who fought in World War One. Amidst the history of war comics, black and other minority members of the…
Interview: Carson Kreitzer, playwright of Lasso of Truth
Did you know Wonder Woman’s creator also invented the lie detector? Knowing that before creating Diana he was building the first polygraph really puts her lasso’s powers in a whole new light. A new play explores the unusual life William Moulton Marston, the man behind Wonder Woman, and the woman the iconic character was based…
Cosplaying While Black: The Expense of Representing
I have been a comic geek since I was thirteen. I have been a brown-skinned girl all my life. Costuming started as fun for me, but has become equal parts mission and frustration. I started cosplaying when I didn’t even know the word “cosplay”. And forget the resources available to cosplayers these days. Back then?…
Gail Simone: She Writes Icons
Gail Simone. She does things. There’s a reason why fandom loves her, and it’s not just because of the amusing romps her thoughts inspire on Twitter. We love her because she takes characters with delicate histories–or not so delicate histories–and holds them and reshapes them with loving hands. She can turn characters and situations that…
Who Do You Think You Are? Teen girl comics of extreme quality
I wanna tell you about a book I really like. It’s going to sound like the opposite of that to start with. I think that the cover to this volume is too artistically executed. I think it’s so good that it does the story a disservice.
Erica Moen’s Oh Joy Sex Toy
Erica Moen, widely known for her time on Penny Arcade’s reality webseries, Strip Search, has launched a Patreon page for Oh Joy Sex Toy.
Review: Ms. Marvel #1
Ms. Marvel #1 Written by G. Willow Wilson Art by Adrian Alphona & Ian Herring Marvel Comics Cover: Adrian Alphona The new Ms. Marvel being an American-born Pakistani girl from Jersey City made headlines all over the net, the blogosphere, and here at WWAC. The first issue is out--does it live up to the hype?...
Thought Bubble: TB Leeds to the future (har har)
An intro to, and con diary of, Thought Bubble comics convention, Leeds, 2013
Stephanie O’Donnell interview
Stephanie O’Donnell is a long-established webcomic artist currently working with Greg Carter on Perfect Agent. You might know her work from the Original Nutty Funsters, or you may remember her post Part of the Problem on our own site a while back. Like many of our readers and featured interviewees, Stephanie is eager to demolish the…
Interview with Joan Reilly
Joan Reilly is a fantastically talented artist and half of the amazing team that put together an anthology discussing feminism in, and through, comics. The Big Feminist BUT: Comics About Women, Men and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism came out July 8th and is available online. Her work has appeared in Studs Terkel’s…
