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REVIEW: Big Jim and the White Boy Gives an American Classic the Political Reimagining it Needs

October 15, 2024

You thought you knew the story – a 14-year-old boy escapes his abusive father to go on a grand-adventure with an enslaved man accused of murder. But what if Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told the wrong story? Big Jim and the White Boy revisits Twain’s classic tale from a fresh ...

Comics, News

Previously on Comics: A Win for Gender Queer but the Fight Continues

September 6, 2022

Hello dearest WWAC readers. It’s time for another week (and one day) comics news roundup. If this were a television series, it’d be like Last Week Tonight, but you know, for comics. The big news from the past week is the Virginia Beach Circuit Court dismissing the case against the ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Wrassle Castle: Learning The Ropes Puts a Headlock on Fun

August 10, 2022

Colleen Coover, Paul Tobin, and Galaador’s Wrassle Castle is just plain adorable. It’s reminiscent of The Lumberjanes due to its spunky can-do attitude and bright and eye-catching art, both of which breathe life into an indomitable and funny protagonist and her circle of wrestling-loving friends.

Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Not the FUTURE We Want, the One We Get

March 10, 2021

Sometimes you pick up a book knowing full well how it will end. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I picked up the science fiction graphic novel FUTURE, but that didn’t stop me from loving the journey. FUTURE is about the last astronaut on Earth, Murray Mielniczuk, and her wife ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Breathing In With The Graphic Novel Juliet Takes A Breath

January 6, 2021

Originally published in January 2016, Gabby Rivera’s debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath was a comforting read that I read as a recently out queer Black person in 2016. Now, the novel has been adapted into a graphic novel by writer Gabby Rivera, illustrator Celia Moscote, colorist James ...

Indie & Small Press, Reviews, Webcomics

REVIEW: Princesses Meet Mecha in Cosmoknights

September 15, 2020

Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer is a webcomic and graphic novel nominated for this year’s Outstanding Comic Ignatz Award. As per the comic’s about page, it follows the adventures of “a ragtag band of space gays… beating the patriarchy at its own game.” And it’s awesome.

Comics, Reviews, Webcomics

Our Super Review: Sarah Graley’s Our Super Adventure

April 26, 2019

Our Super Adventure: Press Start To Begin Sarah Graley (Artist & Writer), Stef Purenins (Flatter) Oni Press March 2019 In Sarah Graley’s introduction into Our Super Adventure: Press Start To Begin, she describes the connection people have to her work as a kind of “shared silliness,” a ...

Comics, Reviews

Self-Care and Ghosts: A Review of Archival Quality

May 3, 2018

Archival Quality Ivy Noelle Weir (writing), Steenz (art and color), Joamette Gil (letters) Oni Press March 6, 2018 I have struggled with mental illness all my life. From depression to extreme anxiety, it is something that at times I feel like I should hide. The beauty of a book like Oni ...

Art & Design, Comics, Essays, Indie & Small Press

Colour in Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do”

September 29, 2017

The endpapers of Thi Buy’s The Best We Could Do are coloured in a wash of a sky blue hue, and depict a beach scene: shells of several sizes are scattered about, along with a pair of sandals. The effect of the opening endpapers, to which the reader turns from the cover image of a cable-stayed ...

graphic novel

REVIEW: Big Jim and the White Boy Gives an American Classic the Political Reimagining it Needs

Previously on Comics: A Win for Gender Queer but the Fight Continues

REVIEW: Wrassle Castle: Learning The Ropes Puts a Headlock on Fun

REVIEW: Not the FUTURE We Want, the One We Get

REVIEW: Breathing In With The Graphic Novel Juliet Takes A Breath

REVIEW: Princesses Meet Mecha in Cosmoknights

Our Super Review: Sarah Graley’s Our Super Adventure

Self-Care and Ghosts: A Review of Archival Quality

Colour in Thi Bui’s “The Best We Could Do”

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