Universal’s music biopic, Straight Outta Compton, has made over $100 million so far at the box office and to celebrate, we’re looking at comics about hip hop or created by hip hop artists. Check ’em out!
“Feminist, Unruly, Cheerfully Monstrous”: Highlight on Dodie Bellamy
Mostly, Dodie Bellamy doesn’t care what you think of her writing. Or, that’s not quite right—she thinks that you should respect her writing for reasons that you’re maybe unused to respecting writing for. She wants you to question what is respectable in literature.
Straight Outta Compton: What Is Reality?
“Silence is our enemy. Sound is our weapon.” – Janelle Monáe Going into Straight Outta Compton, I brought with me the soundtrack of my youth. I never possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of hip hop as a genre. It was all background noise. It was in the veins of those around me, and pulsating through the streets….
Kickstarter of the Week! Strange Wit: Resurrection of a Female Legend
You ever sit in your English class or peruse lists of classics, wondering where all the women writers are? There are a great deal many of them which male-written history has forgotten, but the Strange Wit team wants to reintroduce the world to Jane Bowles.
Short & Sweet: Fionna and Cake, Awkward, Junji Ito’s Fragments of Horror, and More!
Every month, WWAC’s staff reads a lot of comics. A lot. Short & Sweet (Or Sour) is our regular showcase for bite-sized reviews of the latest books!
Human Rights in Mexico: Graphic Novelized
A new graphic nonfiction series is being released by Front Line Defenders (a group devoted to combating violence against human right advocates worldwide). The series debut is La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico and was released by Verso Books on May 29th of this year. Written and illustrated by…
Five Comics About Immigrants Nigel Farage Needs To Read
On May 7th here in the UK, we will elect a new government and Prime Minister—basically our president, for the Republics out there—who will run the country for the next five years. Yeah, it’s pretty major stuff, and it’s almost all anyone is talking about.
A Year of Sex and Revelation: The Wild Oats Project by Robin Rinaldi
The Wild Oats Project Robin Rinaldi Doubleday Canada March 17th 2015 Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. What if for just one year you explored everything you’d wondered about sex, but hadn’t tried? The project was simple: An attractive, successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a…
Compulsive Reading: Some Notes On How We Read Mental Health
Megan Purdy asks the questions in this round table discussion responding to several comics tackling mental illness, and its resultant behaviours. Sara Lautman’s comic Some Notes on Compulsive Hair Pulling is beautiful and affecting. The comic is about Lautman’s struggle with trichotillomania: how she got her diagnosis; how she deals with it; how she relates,…
The Secret History of Wonder Woman Review
The Secret History of Wonder Woman Jill Lepore Alfred A. Knopf October 28, 2014 **Disclaimer: I received this copy from the publisher for an honest review
A Look At Random House Canada’s Upcoming 2015 Titles
This month, Random House Canada invited bloggers to their headquarters to get a preview of some of their upcoming 2015 titles. It was a great time where pizza was eaten and awesome transitional slides featured Danny Castellano and Justin Timberlake were viewed. Alas, this isn’t about the lovely Danny Castellano, but about the books, and I’m here…
[NSFW] Fucking Trans Women: “A sexual cookbook.”
Fucking Trans Women #0 Mira Bellwether Released: October 2010 80 pages, zine Fucking Trans Women is an 80-page zine by Mira Bellwether about sex, gender, and trans women representation. It includes personal and political essays, diagrams, 101 info, and sex tips. The zine is available in hardcopy or as a PDF. The following conversation between…