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WWAC Reads Books! Supernatural Gender Edition

October 31, 2024

Cozying down into fall, we here at WWAC have been indulging both in books with really interesting things to say about gender, and as usual, books across the speculative fiction spectrum. Everything from horror stories to sweet, queer retellings of Arthuriana, we’re enjoying it all!

Comics, Manga, Reviews

REVIEW: “To Strip the Flesh” Cuts to the Bone

August 15, 2022

To Strip the Flesh is an anthology by author Oto Toda collecting several of her short works together. It includes several stories of varying length about love and being yourself and features a wonderful headlining story about a transgender character titled “To Strip the Flesh”.

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries a Laugh Out Loud Collection With Heart

July 27, 2022

If you could imagine yourself as an animal what would you pick? Comics artist Grace Gogarty, perhaps better known to the internet by their handle Little Tunny, draws themself as an adorably bug-eyed yellow snail. This gastropodsona is the titular protagonist of Gogarty’s semi-autobiographical ...

Manga, Reviews

REVIEW: Boys Run The Riot Runs The Manga Section

May 18, 2022

Boys Run the Riot is an LGBT manga series with a transmasculine lead written and drawn by Keito Gaku (and team). This introductory volume to the series is a poignant and hilarious romp through gender discrimination, high school, punk philosophy, following your dreams, and how fashion is often a ...

Comics, Reviews

REVIEW: Fantastic Four Life Story #2 and Miss Representation

July 22, 2021

Marvel’s Life Story books re-contextualize Marvel’s most well-known characters as evolving and aging in “real-time” throughout their history. And for the Fantastic Four, this comes as a celebration of their 60th anniversary. A look back at their story throughout the decades seems like an ...

Essays, Reviews, Television and Film

Revenge is the Abyss that Stares Back in Violation (2020)

April 7, 2021

Content Warning: Discussions of sexual assault and graphic violence.

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: The Dreams of Queer Utopia Will Inspire You to Dream

September 10, 2020

In a pandemic, in a time of unrest, in a world that constantly keeps marginalized people in crisis, how do we imagine an ideal future? How do we look past the obstacles immediately in front of us and consider a happy, queer world? How do we dream? Editor and cartoonist H-P Lehkonen decided to ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

New Colors for Bug Boys and Witchlight Enrich their Stories

May 20, 2020

I’m a big fan of Czap Books, especially two of their earlier publications – Laura Knetzger’s sweet, slice-of-life series Bug Boys, and Jessi Zabarsky’s emotional, warm fantasy Witchlight. I’ve written about both comics before, but since those initial pieces both books were picked up by Random ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

Stage Dreams is the Comic Queer and Trans Teens Deserve

October 16, 2019

Stage Dreams Mel Gillman Lerner Publishing/Graphic Universe September 3, 2019 A review copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Three years ago, I interviewed incredible color pencil artist Mel Gillman about Stage Dreams, a young adult graphic novel they ...

Comics, Comics Academe, Interviews

Focus on Comics Scholarship: an interview with Frederik Byrn Køhlert

May 3, 2019

Routledge will be publishing a series of scholarly texts on “Gender, Sexuality and Comics Studies,” as part of its Focus Collection, which offers quick publication of peer-reviewed work, of a length generally associated with a too-long chapter, or too-short monograph: 20,000 to ...

Gender

WWAC Reads Books! Supernatural Gender Edition

REVIEW: “To Strip the Flesh” Cuts to the Bone

REVIEW: Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries a Laugh Out Loud Collection With Heart

REVIEW: Boys Run The Riot Runs The Manga Section

REVIEW: Fantastic Four Life Story #2 and Miss Representation

Revenge is the Abyss that Stares Back in Violation (2020)

REVIEW: The Dreams of Queer Utopia Will Inspire You to Dream

New Colors for Bug Boys and Witchlight Enrich their Stories

Stage Dreams is the Comic Queer and Trans Teens Deserve

Focus on Comics Scholarship: an interview with Frederik Byrn Køhlert

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