By Masha Zhdanova
In 2003, writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata collaborated for the first time on a manga called Death Note, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from...
2020-07-26 23:16:56 +0000 UTC View PostBy Kayleigh Hearn
There are remarkable green dresses that linger in our pop culture memory. Scarlett O’Hara draped in mountains of velvet. Jennifer Lopez wearing Vers...
2020-06-24 01:13:44 +0000 UTC View PostComics Academe is an ongoing monthly series published on Women Write About Comics (WWAC) since the site’s inception in 2015. Since 2017, Comics Academe has been curated by Katherine Tanski, a PhD...
2020-06-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite the cancellation of SDCC this year, the Eisner Awards are proceeding in a virtual format. Last ...
2020-06-08 16:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostBy Doris V. Sutherland
Back in the 1970s, comic covers hailed her as “Fantasy’s #1 Fighting Female” and “the Fighting First Lady of Swords-and-Sorcery”. Decades lat...
2020-05-28 12:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostBy Corinne McCreery
In 2002, a comic that I would come to love deeply started coming out. It was a story of fairy-tale characters trying to live in the ‘real world’, and ...
2020-04-17 20:37:48 +0000 UTC View PostContent Warning: This essay includes discussions of transphobia, anti-trans violence, trans-medicalism and passing.
By Dani Kinney
It’s challenging t...
2020-03-11 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostBy Nola Pfau
For those not in the know, 2018 wrapped up a thirteen-year span of Transformers comics all contained within the same sphere of continuity. Thirteen years doesn...
2020-02-23 18:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the first in a new exclusive offering for our Patrons. Each month, we will be publishing exclusive essays by our contributors on various topics. In our first essay, Doris V. Sutherland e...
2020-01-30 03:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary means we've turned our attention to our submission for the 2020 Eisner Awards and you get a sneak peek at what we've got to say about ourselves. Submitting our site for an award isn't a tim...
2020-01-19 22:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe "Best of..." posts are making the rounds. We'll have our own out soon enough to help you find some great reads from the year (and decade) past. But we also want to take a moment to talk about o...
2019-12-16 00:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostIf the stores are anything to judge by, it's been Halloween since August. But when it comes to spooky stuff, Doris V. Sutherland has been providing some excellent horror content lo...
2019-10-31 23:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a pretty good day that ends with notification from the Library of Congress requesting permission to be archived as part of their Comics Literature and Criticism Web Archive. Our response was a...
2019-09-20 22:37:57 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're at Rose City Comic Con this weekend, catch up with Kate, Nola, and Adrienne. Meanwhile, over at Small Press Expo, Kayleigh and Kat are hanging out.
2019-09-14 11:07:04 +0000 UTC
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Once upon a time, Megan Purdy got tired of people asking the question, "How come women don't write about comics?" To show the inquisitive their ignorance, she started Women Write About Comics to le...
2019-08-12 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month, Jonathan Hickman introduced the world to a whole new vision for the X-Men. Many of us at WWAC are longtime fans of the series. Some of us have wavered in our dedication and love for var...
2019-08-08 11:51:25 +0000 UTC View PostThat's a wrap for San Diego Comic-Con as WWAC folks pack up and head home to recuperate and get writing about all the fun amazing stuff we've seen and people we've chatted with this weekend. Look o...
2019-07-22 04:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
WWAC's Comic-Con team has hit the ground running, and are excited to bring you lots of coverage from the event. Look out for Her Universe fashion show coverage, DC Comics and screen news, Comic-Con...
2019-07-17 21:50:38 +0000 UTC View PostOn behalf of the WWAC team, thank you to our new patrons who are just joining us, and our deepest gratitude to those who have been with us over the months. We continue to strive to bring you passio...
2019-06-07 00:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostMariko Tamaki (Writer), Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Illustrator)
First Second, Release Date: May 7, 2019
2019-05-06 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Photo credits: Jessica Raetzke (http://jbraetzke.com)
It’s April, and Avengers: Endgame will be released s...
2019-04-10 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJungle Girls reprints fourteen Golden Age stories, each showcasing a different heroine. Here's an early look at Doris V. Sutherland's review.
Imagine an archetypal c...
2019-04-03 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis weekend, our roving reporters are busy at Emerald City Comic Con and Toronto Comic Con, followed by WonderCon at the end of the month. We're making plans for FlameCon, TCAF, VanCAF, SDCC, and ...
2019-03-16 12:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe flew into the new year and are not slowing down. We've got lots of comic and book reviews, as well as exhibit reviews coming up for you. As always, we'll keep you up to date on comic and book
The results are in for our 2019 Awesome Awards! Thank you to all of our Patrons who helped us select the winners for our 2019-01-15 22:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Have you got a big to-read pile to get through? Are you looking to expand your reading horizons? Have we got just the things for you! That's right, reading challenges!
Our team has put togeth...
2019-01-06 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe are very proud to have had over 300 writers share their passionate opinions about books, comics, and more here at WWAC. We are honoured to host every single word these wonderful people have writ...
2018-12-30 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIf you haven't already voted in any or all of the various categories in our 2019 Awesome Awards, be sure to get those vote...
2018-12-26 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The nominees are in for the return of our Awesome Awards where we celebrate the best -- and not so best -- reads and moments in the book and comics industries. Your mission, dear Patrons, should you c...
2018-12-18 13:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’re hanging out in the great white north like I am, the weather has taken a turn for the dreary, with the sun struggling to poke through the rain clouds. It’s miserable outside, but...
2018-11-08 22:55:03 +0000 UTC View Post