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ESSAY: Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland

January 17, 2025

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 ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Roundtables

WWACommendations: Processing, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees and More

January 16, 2025

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 ...

Announcements

The Future of WWAC

January 14, 2025

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 ...

Comics

Cover Girl: Snotgirl #16!

January 3, 2025

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 ...

Comics, Interviews

INTERVIEW: Goldie Chan Has a Duckie Time Talking Bird Puns in Betty and Veronica: Fairy Tales

January 2, 2025

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.

Manga, Pubwatch, Reviews

VIZ Pubwatch: December 2024

December 31, 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 the ...

Bookmarked, Lists, Reviews, Roundtables

WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition

December 30, 2024

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!

Bookmarked, Essays

ESSAY: How Naomi Kritzer’s Science Fiction Strips Away Cyberspace

December 26, 2024

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 ...

Comics, Pubwatch, Reviews

Archie Comics Pubwatch: December 2024

December 24, 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!

News

Previously On Comics: Comics Submission Opportunities

December 22, 2024

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.