We’ve got a bit of everything for this month’s WWACommendations: queer fantasy, historical fiction about a prison hunger strike, multimedia noir, and mysterious, manga melodrama. I love when we stumble on a theme, but I also love when WWACommendations is a true smorgasboard. There’s something here for you, no matter what you’re in the mood…
WWACommendations: Plain Jane and the Mermaid, Odd Girl Out, The Sea in You and More
Welcome to the first WWACommendations of 2024! We’ve had a bit of new year magic crop up because almost everyone is on a theme this round. We’re all reading about mythical water creatures, except for Masha, the odd girl out. (That’s a pun, it will make sense in a moment.) We’ve also all picked comics…
WWACommendations: Koreangry, The Infinity Particle, Rigsby WI and more
We’ve got zines, zines, ZINES baby! My dream for WWACommendations — fill it with zines! November is a bit of sequel to October, because Paulina got y’all ready for some Koreangry content so that I could jump in talk all about her work. Continuing along the theme of WWAC folks supporting each other, Kat sent…
WWACommendations: Gender Queer, Surviving Romance, Watership Down and More
Well, I feel like we are simultaneously hurtling toward 2024 and like there is way too much left to do in 2023, but the truth is that time moves at time’s pace, which means it’s simply time for October’s WWACommendations. Nothing more worrying than that! It is spooky season, but our reads this month are…
WWACommendations: Delicious in Dungeon, Nodame Cantabile, Things in the Basement and More
WWACommendations never relies on a theme, but this month we sort of have one — exploration. I inadvertently kicked this off by desperately needing to shout about my Delicious in Dungeon reread, but Masha and Carrie both followed up by recommending manga about exploring unique relationships, and finding unexpected connections. Very different from finding monsters…
WWACommendations: Boys Weekend, River’s Edge, Bezkamp and More
August was a month of ambitious reads, and one of those funny times when we all seem to have melded into a WWAC hive mind. Everyone is reading Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky or has it on hold at the library. Everyone is also reading River’s Edge by Kyoko Okazaki or waiting for it at…
WWACommendations: Is Love the Answer?, Mindset, Barbara Brandon-Croft and More
We’ve got a really interesting breadth of recommendations in this month’s WWACommendations. Louis has a comic for you focused on mental health, I read a fictional manga about ace identity, Kathryn’s here with some non-fiction by a regular Nib contributor, Masha picked up some sci-fi, Carrie did NOT read manga this time and instead found…
June WWAComendations: Family Style, Woman World, Inuyasha and More
I was so focused on my beautiful child’s birthday in April that I didn’t realize it was the sixth month of WWACommendations’ revival, bringing us now, in June, to seven months of comic recommendations! (We took a break in May; sometimes you need rest and it’s important to take it!) I love this l’il roundtable…
WWACommendations: Mimosa, Unhealthy, The Moth Keeper and More
Well hello there! I thought, since I used March’s WWACommendations to get emotional about my own birthday, I’d use April’s intro to reveal that I am writing this on my cat’s birthday! [Editor’s note: happy extra belated!] She is 11 today, and according to various aspects of a random horoscope meant for humans she’s confident…
WWACommendations: Thieves, Modern Suburbia, The Vampire Librarian and More
Hey y’all, it’s Pisces season, AKA my season! I’m not big into astrology but I do know that Pisces are known for being dreamy and emotional. I don’t really think of myself as a dreamy type, but I am secretly pretty emotional, and one thing I get really emotional about is sharing stories. WWACommendations is…
WWACommendations: I Think Our Son is Gay, Demon Days, Shubeik Lubeik and More
Well hello there! I don’t know about you, but my January felt like it was a thousand years long. Regardless of how your year kicked off, we’ve made it to the end of February, which means WWACommendations is back with new recommendations just for you! This month we’ve got an interesting mix of indie/small press…
WWACommendations: Robo Sapiens, Pyramid Game, Maison Ikkoku and More
Welcome back to WWACommendations! Did you miss us? I always miss us. Never fear — we’re here with hot, fresh recommendations, a hilarious number of which come indirectly from WWAC Manga Editor Masha Zhdanova. It’s probably no surprise that we frequently swap recommendations, but I love seeing evidence of that behind-the-scenes chit chat. It gives…