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REVIEW: Food and Loss in Victoria Ying’s Hungry Ghost

May 25, 2023

The best stories in fiction always have some truth in them, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Victoria Ying’s newest graphic novel, Hungry Ghost. While not a memoir, it’s clear that this book is written from a real place of dealing with eating disorders, cultural values, ...

Comics, Manga, Reviews

REVIEW: She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat

February 7, 2023

Finding the relationship you need is a nourishing experience. Even more so when food is involved. A comforting slice-of-life manga, She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat volume 1, is about two neighbors bonding over food and cultivating a new caring space for each other.

Comics, Reviews

Days of Sugar and Spice: A Saccharine Tale That Lacks Zing

December 11, 2019

Days of Sugar and Spice Loïc Clément (writer), Cromatik Ltd (letters), Montana Kane (translation), Anne Montel (artist and colours) Europe Comics November 20, 2019 Disclaimer: Izneo has provided WWAC with a VIP Access Pass. Graphic designer Rose isn’t exactly enjoying her job, or her life. But ...

Comics, Lifestyle

Cook Your Comics: “Mom’s Mushroom Rice” from Pilu of the Woods

May 3, 2019

A story that really rings true, touching your heart and finding so many ways to be relatable in its fantastical exploration of a little girls struggles with her emotions, is great, but when it also includes really fun backmatter, that’s a whole other story. Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. ...

Comics, Reviews

To Drink and To Eat: Tasty But Slightly Overcooked

January 29, 2019

To Drink And To Eat, Volume 1 Guillaume Long (Writer and Artist), Céline Badarous Denizon (Colours), DC Hopkins (Letters), Jeremy Melloul (Translation) Gallimard (French), Lion Forge (English) 29 January, 2019 Guillaume Long is passionate about food and drink, and he wants to share this passion ...

Bookmarked, Lists

Seven Books About Food for the Holiday Season

November 13, 2018

Halloween is behind us, and I’m looking forward to the holiday season ahead. There are so many holidays crammed into the last two months of the year, like Thanksgiving (if you’re American), Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa … The list goes on! And to me, the best part of this season is the ...

Comics, Manga, Opinion

Cooking and Camaraderie: How Delicious in Dungeon Encourages Accessible Fantasy

May 16, 2018

Delightful and delectable as the food concocted in the series itself, Delicious in Dungeon is the introduction to fantasy we need in this current world of bleak media. As the series’ fifth volume receives its English release this May, the growing collection of titles featuring accessible, ...

Comics, Opinion

Fatphobia in the Never Changing Comic Book Landscape

May 22, 2017

EDIT: an incorrect fact has been removed from this article. Superhero comic books retain the ability to deeply wound their audiences. What do they propagate a desire for? Thinner women. “Superheroine” is still, despite occasional pushback from Marvel’s (Adrian ...

Reviews

Review: Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook

February 3, 2017

Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook Ziggy Marley & Family Akashic Books October 2016 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: cookbooks are like porn for me with their glossy pictures of beautifully arranged food that never quite turns out looking so pretty. You just have to accept from the ...

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Pop’s Diner: 6 Snack Pairings for the Riverdale Premiere

January 26, 2017

Riverdale, the strange new Archie-comics-meets-Twin-Peaks show debuts tonight on The CW at 9 PM. And lifetime Archie-fan Laura Harcourt, will be live tweeting it for us at @womenonocomics! While Archie has been busily rebooting their classic comics for a YA, romance-loving readership, ...

Food

REVIEW: Food and Loss in Victoria Ying’s Hungry Ghost

REVIEW: She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat

Days of Sugar and Spice: A Saccharine Tale That Lacks Zing

Cook Your Comics: “Mom’s Mushroom Rice” from Pilu of the Woods

To Drink and To Eat: Tasty But Slightly Overcooked

Seven Books About Food for the Holiday Season

Cooking and Camaraderie: How Delicious in Dungeon Encourages Accessible Fantasy

Fatphobia in the Never Changing Comic Book Landscape

Review: Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook

Pop’s Diner: 6 Snack Pairings for the Riverdale Premiere

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