WWAComics
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womenwriteaboutcomics.com is a 3x Eisner winning blog covering (mostly) comics. Reviews, news, essays, and interviews. An all-volunteer organization, we exclusively feature writers & editors of marginalized genders. editors[at]wwacomics .com
I re-uploaded my eBook HOW TO BE A COMICS CRITIC! Remember when I spent eight years editing comics criticism every day? For award-winning WWAC? And everybody loved the fascinating articles? Well now you can learn to write them too😋✍️✨ clairenapier.itch.io/how-to-be-a-...
How to be a comics critic by clairenapier
A short workbook taking you through the process of developing comics criticism
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We are delighted to announce that applications for our third CAG Mini Grant are live! It's hard to make the comics YOU want to make when the cost of living keeps rising. So this Mini Grant is here to offer a little breathing room: groceries, childcare, whatever you need. forms.gle/J7V7frhTZvH7...
I am SO excited to announce that the Kickstarter campaign for The Comics Staple, a monthly zine about comics, is live. Go make your pledges now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
The Comics Staple - A Comics News Zine
A brand-new, monthly zine featuring news, reviews, and interviews for comics fans who want to stay in the loop. Edited by Tiffany Babb
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Gathering my writing currently published in one place, to pin. This is a few years old & I think, after reading more transfeminine readings and transfeminist critiques, I definitely would write it a bit differently thanks to @wwacomics.bsky.social & @dogunderwater.bsky.social's guidance on this
Gender to Watch Out For: Stuart and Trans Lesbianism in Alison Bechdel's Classic Strip - WWAC %
Revisiting Dykes to Watch Out For brings complicated feelings about closeted transgender eggs and lesbian reactions to them.
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The SPX Table Lottery is live and open until March 15th! We wanna see you there so don’t forget to fill out the form below.
Small Press Expo@smallpressexpo.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey! Do you like smiling? Well, we’ve got something to put a smile on your face! As I’m typing this, we are 199 days away from SPX 2026! Like to grin? Well, guess what?!? The SPX Table Lottery is now OPEN! Click the link below to put a grin on your mug and let’s see you in September! Good luck!
thank you for an excuse to pull this @nightxade.bsky.social review out of the archives
REVIEW: Winner Comes Last in Dick Fight Island [NSFW] - WWAC %
No, they don't fight with their dicks on Dick Fight Island, but there's good reason why this is the top yaoi manga romance.
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Vulture@vulture.com · 5mo agoM/M (male/male) romance has mostly remained in the basement of pop culture on fan fiction forums and e-books. Through ‘Heated Rivalry,’ what has been fringe has been let loose. The fujoshi switch has been flipped, and now everyone’s fujoing out.
Are you a subscriber to my Patreon? If so, you can now read a new article about twenty-first century Night of the Living Dead remakes! (I was feeling nostalgic about the @wwacomics.bsky.social series I wrote on the topic) dorisvsutherland.com/2026/02/07/f...
For Patrons: Nights of the Public Domain Dead
Subscribers to my Patreon can now read a new essay: Nights of the Public Domain Dead. I was feeling nostalgic about my 29-part essay series on the legacy of Night off the Living Dead, which only we…
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Each essay is at least 2k words, making the series as a whole about as long as Alice in Wonderland itself. Here's the first part, which appeared on @wwacomics.bsky.social before the site's hiatus: womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2025/01/essa...
ESSAY: Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland - WWAC %
This year marks the 160th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was originally published in 1865.
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Over the course of the year, I've been writing a monthly essay series on Alice in Wonderland and its various reworkings. In the final instalment, live today, I look at Lewis Carroll's largely-forgotten attempt to create a new Wonderland in "Sylvie and Bruno": dorisvsutherland.com/2025/12/27/a...
Alices: Sylvie and Bruno in Wonderland
This is the last in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations, reworkings and reinterpretations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The rest of the serie…
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I re-read Big Jim and the White Boy this morning for a chapter on narrative that I'm writing. An excellent comic, very well reviewed here by @wwacomics.bsky.social womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/10/revi...
REVIEW: Big Jim and the White Boy Gives an American Classic the Political Reimagining it Needs - WWAC %
Big Jim and the White Boy reimagines the Mark Twain classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by centering the runaway slave, Jim.
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Happy #Letterer Appreciation Day! If you want to check out fantastic letterers here on bluesky, here's a starter pack! Also, if you are a letterer who wishes to be included in this pack, or an aspiring letterer who would like a portfolio review, please message me any time. go.bsky.app/D5PbjPZ
Okay, so you want to start watching all 10 (!) movies Wolverine's appeared in, where do you start? X-MEN (2000)? One of the prequels? Is the guy in DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE the same Wolverine, anyway? I break it allllll down for you on Looper:
How To Watch The Wolverine Movies In Order - Looper
Confused about where to start watching Hugh Jackman's Wolverine? This list should give you the best idea of how to view his movies.
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It's time for the eighth instalment of my monthly Alice in Wonderland essay series, which started at @wwacomics.bsky.social before its hiatus! This month, I'm looking at Jonathan Miller's 1966 BBC adaptation. PLUS! Grant Morrison! Fred and Barney! Sunspots! dorisvsutherland.com/2025/08/26/a...
Alices: Jonathan Miller in Wonderland
This is the eighth in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations, reworkings and reinterpretations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The rest of the ser…
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Happy to announce that my column Queerly Nerdy has a new home at Pop Heist. Thanks editor @brettwhite.bsky.social for giving it new life! Excited to geek out on a monthly basis with y'all!
Pop Heist@popheist.com · last yr.New column alert: @wordsfromapenn.com brings QUEERLY NERDY to Pop Heist, kicking off with an entry about the geeky LGBTQ+ folks who have inspired them or made the days a little brighter. @davidvinc.bsky.social @miladyconfetti.bsky.social @branmci.bsky.social
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
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Added Ironheart to the rankings over at @vulture.com! Truly I have so much more to say about this show than I can fit into a ranked listing. It's...well, it's sure something.
Every Marvel TV Show of the MCU Era, Ranked
Some of them are even pretty good.
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Happy Birthday, Usagi Tsukino! Here’s a blast from the past: my appearance on the Shelfdust Presents podcast talking about the very first manga chapter of SAILOR MOON!
Shelfdust Presents: Sailor Moon #1 with Kayleigh Hearn
In 2019 Shelfdust asked over a hundred comic book critics, podcasters, vloggers and commentators to pick their personal, subjective favourite ‘first’ comic book issues of all time. From their choic…
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It's the latest instalment of my year-long essay series on Alice in Wonderland (which started at @wwacomics.bsky.social and migrated to my own blog while that site's on hiatus). This time, I'm digging up the rather dated cultural analysis of James R. Kincaid... dorisvsutherland.com/2025/06/23/a...
Alices: James R. Kincaid in Wonderland
This is the sixth in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations, reworkings and reinterpretations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The rest of the seri…
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@kathrynthehuman.bsky.social wrote a lovely review of the Lee Lai's excellent Stone Fruit for @wwacomics.bsky.social a few years ago, if you're curious!
REVIEW: Closing the Gaps in Queer Storytelling in Stone Fruit by Lee Lai - WWAC %
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai is an earnest and painfully honest story that follows two women as they navigate the aftermath of a queer romance.
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Here's the first post in the series (written for @wwacomics.bsky.social before that site went on hiatus): dorisvsutherland.com/2025/01/17/a...
Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland
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 literatu…
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Happy Dracula Day! Here's one from the @wwacomics.bsky.social archives: my review of DRACULA, MOTHERF**KER! by Erica Henderson and Alex de Campi!
REVIEW: Dracula, Motherf**ker! is a Technicolor Terror - WWAC %
Dracula has risen from the grave in 1974 Los Angeles in Dracula Motherf**ker!, a colorfully lurid new graphic novel from Image Comics.
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And in the third, I revisited the Jan Svankmajer film to find out why Alice fascinated the surrealists: dorisvsutherland.com/2025/03/22/a...
Alices: Jan Švankmajer in Wonderland
This is the third in a twelve-part series of essays examining adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The rest of the series can be found here. The Alice books are strange. Much of t…
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The new ROSE OF VERSAILLES anime movie is now streaming on Netflix! Want to know more about this classic series? Check out my review of the first manga omnibus for @solrad.bsky.social!
Take My Revolution: Kayleigh Hearn Reviews The Rose of Versailles vol. 1 - SOLRAD
Guest contributor Kayleigh Hearn reviews the long-awaited first volume of THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES, published in 2020 by Udon Entertainment.
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The second was about the Disney cartoon: dorisvsutherland.com/2025/02/10/a...
Alices: Walt Disney in Wonderland
This is the second in a twelve-part series of essays examining adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The rest of the series can be found here. Morton N. Cohen’s biography of Lewis …
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This is the fourth part of a monthly series on adaptations and reworkings of Alice in Wonderland. Here's the first: dorisvsutherland.com/2025/01/17/a...
Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland
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 literatu…
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On my blog, I'm looking at the two serious attempts at a Lewis Carroll biopic -- which were both written by Dennis Potter. dorisvsutherland.com/2025/04/25/a...
Alices: Dennis Potter in Wonderland
This is the fourth in a twelve-part essay series examining adaptations and reworkings of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The rest of the series can be found here. No doubt spurred by the po…
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