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(late) Summer Reading
Summer reading lists usually come out in late spring, early summer. Just as you’re starting to dream of a cold drink on a hot afternoon (or consuming your body weight in liquid, while being submerged...
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What’s Hot? September 2013
What’s hot? Well listen– You might have picked up the hints, reader, but let me confirm – we, your contributing team, are women! Women writing about comics. We share this shocking fact in the hope that...
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Which Comic Are You Wearing?
Cosplay is great, but sometimes it’s intimidating. Where will I wear it? How will I make it? Can I afford it, for just one con/just for one Halloween? Will the character suit me? Will people be nasty...
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Fall Reading
Fall is a good time for books that will destroy your everything. It’s not winter, when disaffection can stretch on into misery. Fall? There are pumpkins to carve, fallen leaves to jump into, and forget...
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Review: The Cute Girl Network
The Cute Girl Network First Second Books MK Reed and G. Means, Joe Flood The Cute Girl Network is not a title that clearly flags a target market. It could be for pre-teen girls. It could be for teen...
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What’s Hot? October!
What’s Hot? Our monthly feature telling you what we’re into, outside of what you usually see us talking up. Rounded personalities? Yeah, we have’em. But it’s October! All of our contributors are on the...
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Look into the eyes of a skeleton: an analysis of frenums’ skeleton comics
I’m very sorry. In this post I’m going to be doing a lot of “explaining the joke.” I hope I don’t ruin it for you. I think humour can survive me. I want to talk to you about skeleton comics. Tumblr...
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Cute Girl Network blog tour: Rose the Roommate Tells It Like It Is
Picking up where my Cute Girl Network review left off, today we’re hearing from a character in the book–which is in shops today from First Second. Finally! There’s something of a blog tour going on...
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Last Minute Gift Guide: Books and Comics
Still shopping, huh? Don’t worry, we’ve got some ideas for you. We’ve held back on prices—availability, shipping, and prices vary so much—but rest assured, a wide variety of price points is...
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Last Minute Gift Guide 2: Stuff and things
Wait, you’re STILL shopping? Girl, I thought we had you covered with that last round of recommendations. Oh, you’re looking for some seeing-you-after-Christmas-so-I-can-be-horrendously-late gifts! Well...
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Stories For Not-Christmas
We’ve been Christmassy this week, but we don’t want to neglect those of you who aren’t. So we’ve put together a short (but long, really, if you count the pages) list of some of our favourite completed...
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What I gave my family for Christmas and why you should care
I am one of those: the relative who gives you presents you wouldn’t have asked for, in the hope that you will discover that you should have. In a prose family, I give comics. But I don’t give them...
View ArticleI’m Loving: Féminin/Féminin
Féminin/Féminin is a new web series written and directed by Chloé Robichaud. Think The L Word having a party with The Real L Word in Quebec, but not annoying. The series follows a group of friends,...
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Erica Moen’s Oh Joy Sex Toy
Erica Moen, widely known for her time on Penny Arcade’s reality webseries, Strip Search, has launched a Patreon page for Oh Joy Sex Toy. Oh Joy Sex Toy is a sex-positive, weekly webcomic started in...
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What’s Hot? Feb 2014
WHAT’S HOT? What are your comic-loving, hard-writing, news-gathering WWAC team getting giddy about outside the world of comics? We share just what is our poison, this February. Ivy Noelle Mine is...
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Who Do You Think You Are? Teen girl comics of extreme quality
I wanna tell you about a book I really like. It’s going to sound like the opposite of that to start with. I think that the cover to this volume is too artistically executed. I think it’s so good that...
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I’m Loving: The Fart Party’s Over
The Fart Party’s Over is an illustrated, feature-length memoir by Julia Wertz. Wertz is a cartoonist and urban explorer–for awhile, more explorer than cartoonist. The reasons for that are both numerous...
View Article10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Each year, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) reviews graphic novels for their inclusion into their Great Graphic Novels for Teens (GGNT) list. The list comprises graphic novels with...
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What’s Hot? March 2014
We talk about comics–seriously, a lot–but sometimes we like to branch out and act keen about all SORTS of diverse pastimes. What are we up to? Catie Illustration by Eric Nyquist I just finished reading...
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I’m Loving: The Pumaman on DVD
Say it with me: “Pumaman, he flies like a moron!” One of the most popular episodes of the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Pumaman is a 1980 film that rips off Superman and Star...
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