This year marks the 160th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was originally published in 1865. Very few works of English-language children’s literature have had such a lifespan. 2025 also marks the 160th anniversaries of Mary Papes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, Mary White Sewell’s Mother’s Last Words, and Jean Ingelow’s Stories Told to…
WWACommendations: Processing, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees and More
I’ve said before that I love when we’re all surprisingly in sync with our monthly reads, and wow is everyone in sync this month – except for me! Below is mostly one comic that seems to have taken WWAC’s casual reading by storm, plus two very conceptually and aesthetically different recommendations. I think it’s a…
The Future of WWAC
Dear WWAC fam, A few years ago I took on the responsibility of being the publisher of WWAC. I believed that WWAC still provided something special, something important, to the world of pop culture criticism and journalism, and comics criticism and journalism specifically, and I wanted to keep the lights on, and the doors open,…
Cover Girl: Snotgirl #16!
Welcome to Cover Girl! For this feature, we gather a team of WWAC contributors to analyze a new or recent and notable comic book cover featuring one or more women. This month, Masha Zhdanova, Kayleigh Hearn, Kat Overland, Jenna Ledford, and Emily Lauer talk about the cover of Snotgirl #16 by series co-creator Leslie Hung!
INTERVIEW: Goldie Chan Has a Duckie Time Talking Bird Puns in Betty and Veronica: Fairy Tales
In the following interview, WWAC talks bird puns and being an outsider in the newest Archie-verse tale – Betty and Veronica: Fairy Tales #1 by Goldie Chan.
VIZ Pubwatch: December 2024
Happy holidays, VIZ fans! 2024 may be coming to a close, but I will probably continue to do this pubwatch until the heat death of the universe or I run out of spare time. Whichever comes first! This month we’re getting warm and cozy with some fluffy romance manga, as well as volume 3 of…
WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition
We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out!
ESSAY: How Naomi Kritzer’s Science Fiction Strips Away Cyberspace
We have entered an era of AI slop. Periodicals are struggling with floods of submissions cooked up by ChatGPT rather than human imaginations, while readers downloading ebooks from Amazon are faced with the possibility of their latest purchase being the churned-out product of AI masquerading as actual creativity or scholarship. While science fiction is no…
Archie Comics Pubwatch: December 2024
Welcome to the Archie Comics Pubwatch for December! I’m Lisa, reporting from a corner booth at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe with this month’s news. In December’s Pubwatch, Archie announces a facsimilie issue Kickstarter! Plus, plenty of new variant covers, and much more!
Previously On Comics: Comics Submission Opportunities
Good morning all. I am writing this a little bit earlier than I usually do because I need to pack up and get on the road to Wales. Sorry in advance if I miss something exciting.
REVIEW: Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory is a Space Opera for Today
Humanity has lost a war with the majoda, an interplanetary association united by an artificial intelligence called the Wisdom. Earth has been destroyed, and a space station called Gaea now houses a remnant of humanity in a rigid militaristic society. Valkyr, teenage niece of the station’s commander in chief Aulus Jole, is waiting for her…
WWACommendations: God Bless the Mistaken, Ditching Saskia, Breadcrumbs and More
This month’s WWACommendations is a riot of emotions. Kathryn’s reading about the discomfort of grief, Emily’s got a memoir that involves funneling emotion into activism, Christa’s got a familiar recommendation that processes feelings of isolation, Kayleigh brings us a horror anthology which of course serves up a great deal of fear, and I’ve got a…