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Last Minute Gift Guide: Books for Adults

Earlier this week we shared our last minute gift guide for the young readers on your list. Now we’re continuing our recommending spree for the adult readers you’re still planning on buying for. Whether...

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Last Minute Gift Guide: KidLit Edition

I know I’m not the only one who still has some last minute shopping to do this holiday season. Thankfully, the ladies of WWAC are here to help you with your shopping needs. The first edition of these...

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X-Files Gift Guide for the Holidays, or Just in Celebration of the Revival

If the 2016 X-Files revival in January isn’t enough justification for you, Ginnis and Kate have cobbled together a holiday gift guide for the X-philes in your life, including you because you are in...

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Short Story Collections You May Have Missed in 2015

It took me a long time to really appreciate the short story. I hated reading them in high school and university, and was convinced my time would be better spent on novels. People would give me...

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Before there was Kamala Khan there was Scout Montana: Sophie Campbell & Spike...

Back in 2010, Sophie Campbell published Shadoweyes, a riveting dystopian science fiction superhero comic about a young woman of color, Scout, who is unexpectedly imbued with superpowers and sets to...

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Recommended Reading: 5 Books to Read When You’re Newly Unemployed

Whoops, you’re unemployed! How did that happen? Well, however this particular turn of events came about, the fact of the matter is that you now have a lot more free time than you had before. Sure, you...

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I’m Loving Paranormal Shows

Probably since my obsession with The X-Files in the 90’s, I’ve loved all the paranormal shows on TV.  I will pretty much watch any of them and over the past few years, the number of these shows has...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Eyecatcher the Smart Bracelet

“The Smart, Large-Display, Super-Charged Wearable” is how Eyecatcher is taglined. This smart bracelet is not only a fashion accessory, but also a practical item that allows users to design and select...

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Kickstarter of the Week: The SEA is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia

Retro-futurism can be anachronistic fun for the whole family, so you’d think steampunk would be a good time for all. But the big issue with the sci-fi sub-genre is its often white-centric stories,...

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I’m Loving: Hamilton’s Original Broadway Cast Recording

I have emotions for Alexander Hamilton. That’s not really a sentence I ever expected I’d have a reason to say, but actor-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda has a way of swinging the unexpected into one’s...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction

Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction is about positive representations of queer people in history — dating! Miserable Queers of History is a trope that too often dominates queer art and...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back

Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back is a comics anthology by fourteen Indian women. The 162 page anthology contains personal reflections on and reactions to the 2012 gang rape of a Delhi medical...

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I’m Loving Super Junior’s Devil!

Two weeks ago, I fell into a Super Junior sized hole in the shape of their latest single: Devil. I’ve never really listened to K-Pop (Korean Pop music) prior to this and have only had limited contact...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Adult Coloring Books

Were you that kid, too—did your parent know exactly how to get you out of their hair, and all it involved were colored pencils and a book full of empty line drawings? Were you that kid who disdained...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Couri Vine

Couri Vine is a new kid’s comic Kickstarter from all-woman team of Leah Lovise and Vanessa Shealy, with colouring by Indigo Rael, and it’s pretty darn cute. The comic takes place on the Moon, where the...

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The Best and Worst Boarding Schools in YA

August is coming to an end, and even though it’s been a few years since I’ve had the perversely strange pleasure of picking out new folders and pens, I’m thinking about school. I went to schools of...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Comare, the Other Woman

Illustrator Ashley St. Lawrence and writer Mario Candelaria, are looking to fund the first issue of a six part mini set in mid-century Los Angeles. Comare is a jazzy, stylish romance comic with edge....

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Kickstarter of the Week! Strange Wit: Resurrection of a Female Legend

You ever sit in your English class or peruse lists of classics, wondering where all the women writers are? There are a great deal many of them which male-written history has forgotten, but the Strange...

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I’m Loving: Phil Hester and John McCrea’s Mythic

While I am primarily a Marvel reader, every now and then a non-Marvel comic will catch my eye and interest. Right now, that comic is Mythic, a new series by author Phil Hester and artist John McCrea...

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Kickstarter of the Week: Zombies on Bicycles

I love a good zombie story. I also love a good science fiction story. Put ’em together, throw in a bicycle and what do you get? Pedal Zombies! Pedal Zombies is a collection of feminist stories that...

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