Obviously, the big ticket story of last week was the announced merger of Lion Forge and Oni Press. It was spun Wednesday morning by the New York Times as a bold step for the future, but the actual reality of it is that a predominantly Black-owned company is merging into a company owned and operated…
Previously on Comics: Comic Sales Stats and Some Cool New Comics on the Way
Last week, Nola Pfau created a brand new banner for Previously and I’m just gonna take a minute to brag about it because look at it? Isn’t it awesome! We’ve appreciated all the banners we’ve had in the past for our comics news column, but we figured it was time for a change, and Nola…
Previously on Comics: A Thor-ny Subject
Good morning! Hopefully your weekend went well. I don’t have a lot of news for you this week, so I’ll just jump right in. The Doug Wright Awards have announced their 2019 inductees for the Giants of the North, a hall of fame for Canadian cartoonists. Congratulations to Fiona Smyth and also a posthumous congratulations…
Previously On Whatever It Was We Were Reading Before N.K. Jemisin Invented Comics
This week DC announced the return of its Young Animal imprint and with it the launch of Far Sector, an original Green Lantern story written by the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author, N.K. Jemisin and artist Jamal Campbell. Alongside this we will also see the return of Doom Patrol, and the new original series…
Previously on Comics and Comics Adjacent Media but Mostly Comics I Promise
This week has been chock full of pre-ECCC announcements and first looks so apologies if this starts to get repetitive but there is a ton of cool stuff on its way and — bonus — pretty much everyone was too busying prepping for cons to show their ass so I dont have have to write…
Previously On Comics: Pointing Fingers at Comics Critics
Several things happened in comics last week, but I’m going to forego listing off the news as we normally do in this column, and instead take the opportunity to use our platform here at WWAC to address a very serious issue that continues to plague the comic book industry. In case you missed the most recent case of an industry “professional” attacking a critic for critiquing their work,…
Previously on Comics: @AOC Establishes Her Nerd Cred and FlameCon Doesn’t Like Sharing
I’m just going to jump right into the news with my favourite moment of last week, which was congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continuing to remind us that she will not be silenced. Channeling Alan Moore’s Watchmen, she tweeted a quote from the character, Rorschach, “None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with YOU. You’re…
Previously On Comics: You’re As Cold As Ice
Here at WWAC, it seems like we started our awards polls a little early–specifically, the Worst Editorial Decision category, as Marvel decided it was going to throw a last minute wringer in the works, by forcing Teen Iceman of the time-displaced original five X-Men back into the closet before sending him home. Occurring in the…
Previously On Comics: Flagged for Adult Content
As far as comics news goes this week has been pretty quiet. I mean, stuff happened but it’s been mostly comics adjacent and as no one showed their ass on the tl so it’s felt, y’know, quiet.
Previously on Comics: Layoffs at Lion Forge, Creators Supporting Creators, and the Bests of 2018
Despite the MCU, well, existing, I still get a little tingly about the fact that comics continue to hit the mainstream media nowadays, like G. Willow Wilson’s new Wonder Woman making headlines over at Vogue. It’s not always a good tingly feeling, especially in those moments when the comics industry likes to prove how trash…
Previously on Comics: Just Subscribe To Shortbox, Thanks
News this week started off big when the story of Dave McKean and Jack Gantos’ book, A Suicide Bomber Sits In The Library, went viral. Gantos and McKean, two white men, created a book purportedly about a child bomber, who is moved to nonviolence by the act of…reading Western literature. It’s a blatantly racist and…
Previously in Comics: Excelsior!
The comics world honored the lives of three men this week, each lost at very different points in their lives. One gone far too soon, lost in his twenties; another in middle age, having spent some 30 years bringing comics into the public eye; and the last, among of the first to have a hand…
