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, trauma, and coming to terms with not…
REVIEW: She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat
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.
Days of Sugar and Spice: A Saccharine Tale That Lacks Zing
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 when her father dies, leaving his beloved bakery Brav Eo to…
Cook Your Comics: “Mom’s Mushroom Rice” from Pilu of the Woods
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. Nguyen tells us about…
To Drink and To Eat: Tasty But Slightly Overcooked
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 with the world. He’s spent his life learning and testing…
Seven Books About Food for the Holiday Season
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 food. From baking Christmas…
Cooking and Camaraderie: How Delicious in Dungeon Encourages Accessible Fantasy
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, fantastical worlds to welcome new readers and participants alike…
Fatphobia in the Never Changing Comic Book Landscape
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 Alphona’s) Gert Yorkes and Valiant’s Faith, synonymous with “titty, yet thin.” They define a “correct” template, and…
Review: Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook
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 get-go that you may…
Pop’s Diner: 6 Snack Pairings for the Riverdale Premiere
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, they’ve also been working with the CW to develop this live action drama, which bears little…
Steven Chewniverse: A Steven Universe Snackticle
We’re finally getting a new Steven Universe episode bomb and what better way to celebrate than to make Steven Universe-inspired snacks to eat while re-watching old eps or watching new ones! No matter if you’re an experienced competitor or just a rookie in the Restaurant Wars, Steven has a recipe (organized from easiest to hardest)…
ESSAY: Food In Film: Finding Safe Spaces In Fiction
There has always been something incredibly magical and calming to me about food in fiction. As a child, often the moments I would return to were the ones in which royalty hosted extravagant feasts, tables bursting with meats, cakes, and more dishes than I could name. Families who ate small, intimate meals. Adventurers who packed…