By Doris V. Sutherland
Welcome to the first of a two-part series exclusively for WWAC patrons, covering the six contenders for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story. Reviewed in this post are Monstress Volume Six, Once & Future Volume Three and Lore Olympus Volume One.
THREEPEAT BABY!!!!
She's once, twice, three times an Eisner Award-winning lady...
Did somebody say...hat trick Eisners?
Not that we're excited over here or anything. Well, the people on the west coast are. The other time zones were sadly asleep to glory in our awesomeness, but you know what? That's okay. Because you amazing, incredibly, Eisner voters did NOT sleep on those Eisner ballots and once again, for the third year in a row, WWAC has won the Eisner for best online jou...
2022-07-23 18:26:52 +0000 UTC View PostBy Kayleigh Hearn
I never met Neal Adams. But I’m looking at his signature, scrawled across the front page of Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men volume 6 with an exhausted black Sharpie, one of countless books he signed at a New England comic book convention in the 2010s. It’s simple enough:
FOR KAYLEIGH
Neal Adams
Neal Adams died on April 28, 2022, at 80; the comic industry immediately mourne...
2022-06-29 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs a warning, this article is most certainly not safe for work. The comic discussed here includes explicit sex and violence, including a combination thereof that some readers may find uncomfortable or upsetting.
Note: This article incorporates material originally published in two posts from 2015 that have since been removed from the site.
By Doris V. Sutherland
One of the most memorable anti-heroines of Italian erotic-...
2022-05-30 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCollage of Nightcrawler images, 1989-2019, penciled by (left to right) Robertson, Davis, Frigeri, Wagner, Davis, Robertson
By Anna Peppard
If you care about seeing inclusive sexiness in your stories, reading superhero comics can be challenging. And yet, I continue to love them, f...
2022-04-28 23:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
The superhero comic convention of the “event” story can be divided into two main categories. The first consists of cosmic-scale storylines like Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinity War, where worlds and realities are threatened by godlike beings and universe-destroying menaces. The second, meanwhile, includes the likes of Civil War and Identity Crisis, where the conflict is framed as moral or ideological rather than existen...
2022-03-14 17:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostSubmissions are open and so we have once again thrown our hat into the ring. Here are just a few (lol) highlights from another year of writing about comics. Seriously. A lot.
We feature articles and essays that entertain and amuse, and those that come from a place of pain shaped by the harm caused by stories that ignore, co-opt, or deny the representation every fan deserves. We provide in-depth opinion pieces that can cut deep or make our rea...
2022-02-27 17:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe new year is off to a rollicking start with lots of ups and downs including convoys, lockdowns, and good old omicron. But there's one thing we can always rely on, and that's comics, amirite? We are cautiously hopeful for what this new year will bring. For example, we hope that this year sees a safe return to conventions so that we can get out there and see everyone again!
The WWAC Editorial Team...
2022-01-31 01:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 21st is a pretty auspicious day, what with it being the 10th anniversary of WWAC. As we look back at where it all began, it's amazing to see how far we've come. Over 300 contributors have shared their passion for comics through WWAC and we are grateful to all of them and especially proud to see them spread their wings in the comics industry and beyond. 2021-12-20 02:10:11 +0000 UTC View Post
By Latonya Pennington
Originally based on a line of dolls of the same name, the '80s cartoon, Jem and the Holograms tells the story of a young business woman named Jerrica Benton who inherits an advanced holographic A.I. named Synergy from her deceased father. Together with her biological sister Kimber and her foster sisters Shana and Aja, the four of them form the titular band in order to raise money for Jerrica's foster home, The Starlight Foundation, and end up becoming huge stars. W...
2021-11-16 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBy Jameson Hampton
In comics, a crossover event is when something happens that’s so big, the implications from it are felt across the entire shared universe, rather than just a single comic series. People like crossover events because it’s fun to see characters who aren’t normally together inter...
2021-10-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
2020 was not a good year to be Batman. In the pages of the comics, he had his own company and all of the gadgets that come with it swiped from under his nose by his archenemy – the premise of “Joker War”, a big-event storyline spearheaded by writer James Tynion IV and artist Jorge Jiménez. In the real world, meanwhile, the character faced adversity of a different sort. Not only was the latest Batman film delayed by lead actor Robert Pattinson 2021-09-30 21:10:16 +0000 UTC View Post
By Kayleigh Hearn
Let us set the sultry Silver Age scene: a beautiful woman in red, her brunette hair a buoyant flip, gazes adoringly at the gun in her hands. She doesn’t see the man in a suit coming up behind her. Eyes shadowed by the brim of his hat, he pulls her close: “Here, let me show you...
2021-08-31 12:11:56 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
As an exclusive for our Patreon subscribers, here is the concluding part to Women Write About Comics’ examination of the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story finalists…
Once & Future Volume 1: The King is Undead
Duncan McGuire’s date is interrupted by a phone call telling him that his grandmother has wandered out of he...
2021-07-28 13:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostKate Kosturski summarizes the 2021 Comics Journalism panel from Comic-Con@Home, featuring WWAC folks.
Comics Journalism 2021: Representation Matters: How do we promote greater representation in comics journalism? Whether making sure that writers from marginalized groups are heard, engaging with work from diverse viewpo...
2021-07-26 00:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
Since 2009 the Hugo Awards have had a category for Best Graphic Story. Although overshadowed to some extent by dedicated comic awards like the Eisners, this corner of the Hugos nonetheless remains a prominent honour in its field, with a handful of contenders and one winner chosen each year from the mass of published comics. As an exclusive for P...
2021-06-30 12:08:50 +0000 UTC View PostWe have determined that the piece we recently published re: queer representation at Marvel and Marvel Voices: Pride required much more editorial scrutiny before publication and as such, have pulled the article for further review, as well as review of our practices going forward. Apologies to our author, whose passion and work we greatly appreciate.
We apologize for the harm this piece may have caused. It certainly was not our intention, but we acknowledge our responsibility to ...
2021-06-25 23:18:52 +0000 UTC View PostBy Corinne McCreery
Three years ago, I got annoyed on Twitter and wound up writing a long article about the various different “Ages” of American comics. Well, I recently had a conversation with our delightful Editor-in-Chief, Nola Pfau, about how close the various DC Golden Age omnibuses are getting to the transition from Golden Age to Silver Age when ...
2021-05-23 20:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
A science fiction series as long-running as Doctor Who could hardly avoid spawning its fair share of comics. By the same token, comics tying in with a science fiction series as long-running as Doctor Who could hardly avoid being just a little erratic.
From 1964 through to 1979, Doctor Who strips appeared primarily in Polys...
2021-04-18 18:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostBy Kayleigh Hearn
Brussels, 1892. In a second hand book stall, a professor finds the leather-bound manuscript of High Life in Verdopolis, a novella set in the fantastic kingdom of Glass Town imagined by a teenage Charlotte Brontë. How the manuscript made its mysterious journey to the Belgian bookstall remains unknown.
Rehoboth Beach, 2009. Browsing the shelves at Atlantic Books, I find Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal by the Brontës. I...
2021-03-22 23:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostBy Nola Pfau
After my dense commentary on the Megatron Origin story, it’s easy to believe that might be the majority of what comprises the first volume of the IDW Collection, but that’s far from the case--it’s not even a third of the book! It’s just...the most dense, by far.
As I noted then, these books aren’t in publication order, nor even chronological orde...
2021-02-21 18:55:32 +0000 UTC View Post2020 was a rough year for all of us, but in spite and because of that, we are proud to have been able to keep giving our readers some comics joy by continuing to produce our very special brand of content. From reviews to essays to listicles and more, we are pretty happy with what we had to offer for 2020. Here are some of the highlights that we've included in our 2021 Eisner Award submission:
Over the years, we have developed a number of special series. F...
2021-02-14 17:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
Somewhere in a remote corner of the world is a land known to outsiders only in legend. It is a matriarchy, ruled for thousands of years by a queen who has obtained the gift of immortality. The modern West eventually makes contact with this hidden land, leading to a clash of cultures. The matriarchy and its immortal queen have their own attitudes towards the concepts of power and obedience, towards the roles of men and women – attitudes that stri...
2021-01-23 15:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostDani Kinney joined WWAC early last year, hitting hard right out of the gate with an essay entitled New Intersections: Queer Futurism and the Krakoan Body Politic. As part of WWAC's secret Krakoan society, Dani has 2021-01-04 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
By Doris V. Sutherland
This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of DC’s Infinite Crisis event, which itself was published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths. That notorious series, published between 1985 and 1986, saw the DC heroes band together against the evil Anti-Monitor in a battle that destroyed a multiverse, leaving only one universe – and one continuity – for DC’s superhero line.
Infinite ...
2020-11-21 16:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostBy Zoe Tunnell
Hi. My name is Zoe Tunnell, and I was an awful comics fan. To be clear, I don't mean I liked awful comics. (I still do! They're trash, but they're my trash.) The type of awful I'm referring to is one probably all too familiar to a lot of you. When I was a teenager, and even into my twenties, I was The Comics Nerd. It was my all-consuming identity, and being the person who could answer any question about the latest Marvel Movie when asked at a party was my lot in life.
... 2020-10-28 22:53:28 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
The erotic-horror fumetti published in Italy through the seventies and eighties may seem arcane to outsiders. The plots of these comics are built around sex, violence and combinations of the two, depicted in such graphic detail that any discussion – this very article included – requires a severe content warning: do not read any further if you are liable to be disturbed by comic-book depictions of sexual violence.
By Latonya Pennington
Published on the digital comics magazine Sparkler Monthly, Mahou Josei Chimaka is a magical woman webcomic and graphic novel created by cartoonist Kate Rhodes and animator Jennifer Xu (known together as Kaiju), edited by Lillan Diaz-Przbyl, copy edited by Lianne Sentar and Rebecca Scoble, and digital toning assistant Lillana Diaz. Starring an adult ex-magical girl named Chimaka Shi, the book is a queer slice-of-life fantasy novel that is b...
2020-08-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a peek at what's coming very soon to WWAC!
2020-08-27 23:08:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The pandemic has forced a lot of changes in everything we do. Early on, we lost a few comic conventions due to uncertainty leading to cancellations, but conventions that occurred later in the year had the opportunity to pull things together with virtual options.
We've been covering some of the many panels that ComicCon@Home had to offer from July 22-26 and, not gonna lie, we are pretty fo...
2020-07-27 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
