Delightful and delectable as the food concocted in the series itself, Delicious in Dungeon is the introduction to fantasy we need in this current world of bleak media. As the series’ fifth volume receives its English release this May, the growing collection of titles featuring accessible, fantastical worlds to welcome new readers and participants alike...| WWAC
For its final instalment this series analyses how British horror writers confronted the far right head-on in consciously anti-racist fiction.| WWAC
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...| WWAC
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...| 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,...| WWAC
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! ...| WWAC
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. Editorial Note: A huge apology to Goldie Chan for getting this up so late! Scheduling conflicts can be such a beast! For the curious – please pick up...| WWAC
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
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! Emily: A new edition of Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells came out November 19th from Tor, and it may now be my...| WWAC
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...| WWAC
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! Archie announces partnership with Macroverse; Will produce and release several facsimile volumes of key...| WWAC
In this week's short previously we report on comics submissions opportunities for creators and upcoming movie releases| WWAC
Part Two of a the Fascist Ghosts series - a deep dive into racism and right wing politics in British horror fiction - takes a look at post-war Britain.| WWAC
Part one of a three part series on how has British horror fiction reacted to the changing racial makeup of the United Kingdom.| WWAC
