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2022 Hugo Award Nominees for Best Graphic Story, Part One

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 S...

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2022 Eisners: And the Award Goes To….

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 peo...

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Prepare Yourself, Mutant: Memories of Neal Adams’ X-Men

By 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 exhaus...

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NSFW: Fumetti Nightmares: Ulula the Werewolf Woman

As 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 uncomfort...

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Nightcrawler is a Sex-Positive Superhero. Here’s How—And Why It Matters

Collage of Nig...

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Youth in Crisis: Looking Back at Marvel’s Outlawed

By 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 Cri...

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2022 Eisner Awards

Submissions 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.

Essays ...

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Getting Sorted

The 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 ...

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10 Years of WWAC

December 21st is a pretty auspicious day, what with it being the 10th anniversary of WWAC. 2021-12-20 02:10:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Jem & The Holograms And The Balancing Act of Multiple Identities

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...

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Revisiting the MCU's Blip From a Pandemic Perspective

By Jameson Hampton

2021-10-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Gangland Dreamland: Batman in 2020

By 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 arc...

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Blow a Kiss, Fire a Gun: The Complete Kirby War & Romance

By Kayleigh Hearn

2021-08-31 12:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post

2021 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story Part 2

By 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 finali...

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Comic-Con@Home: The Importance of Representation in Comics Journalism

Kate Kosturski summarizes the 2021 Comics Journalism panel from Comic-Con@Home, featuring WWAC folks.

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2021 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story Part 1

By Doris V. Sutherland

Since 2009 the Hugo Awards have had a category for ...

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Apologies

We 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, ha...

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The Many Ages of DC Comics: A Sequel

By Corinne McCreery

Three years ago, I got annoyed on Twitter and wound up writing a View Post

Star Beasts and Spider-Gods: Doctor Who Comics of the Tom Baker Era

By Doris V. Sutherland

A science fiction series as long-running as Doctor Wh...

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Wild, Weird Writing: Charlotte Brontë, Welcome to Die

By 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 fantas...

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Transforming the Narrative: An Analysis of The Transformers: The IDW Collection - Infiltration

By Nola Pfau

After my dense commentary on the Megatron Origin story, it’s easy to be...

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Hey, It's Eisner Time Again!

2020 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 c...

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She Who Must Be Obeyed: Wonder Woman’s Secret Origin as Victorian Villainess

By 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 ...

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WWAC Contributor Spotlight: Dani Kinney

Dani Kinney joined WWAC early last year, hitting hard right out of the gate with an essay entitled View Post

Infinite Crisis: Fifteen Years Later

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 anniversa...

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Magik and Shadows: How Kate Pryde and Ilyana Rasputin Made Me a Better, Gayer, Comics Fan

By 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 ...

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[NSFW] Fumetti Nightmares: Belzeba, Italy's Intersex Imp

By 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 a...

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Mahou Josei Chimaka Embodies Me As An Adult Magical Girl Fan

By Latonya Pennington

Published on the digital comics magazine Sparkler Monthly, Mahou Josei Chimaka is a magical woman webcomic and graphic novel created by cartoon...

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Sneak Peek

Here's a peek at what's coming very soon to WWAC!

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WWAC@ComicCon@Home Wrap Up

The pandemic has forced a lot of changes in everything we do. Early on, we lost a few comic conventions...

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