Cool Books of April: Staff Picks
Woof Spencer Quinn Scholastic Inc. April 28, 2015 Birdie Gaux and her dog, Bowser, must must solve the case of her Grammy’s missing prize stuffed marlin. In my ongoing quest for age appropriate...
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No Mercy Alex de Campi, Carla Speed Mcneil, Jenn Manley Lee Image Comics April 1, 2015 I’m pushing out of my comfort zone and looking for new series from a variety of publishers. For April I’m going to...
View ArticleCool Games of April: Staff Picks
State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition Developer: Undead Labs Publisher: Microsoft Studios Xbox One April 28, 2015 I love zombies. I know the market has been a bit flooded recently with...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Fight!
Feature image artwork by Baptiste Pagani and Kali Ciesemier. This week I’d like to share a Kickstarter I’ve been looking forward to for a while now: Fight! The Fight Zine is a project started by Jenn...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Embroidered Equines
Sometimes you need a project to back where you feel like you’re making a direct impact. Sometimes all you need is pony plushes. Today you can have both! Read on for our Kickstarter pick of the week. In...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Haiku Warrior
If you’re a fan of tabletop RPGs, then go check out Haiku Warrior. Created by Jason Anarchy, the guy behind Drinking Quest, this tabletop is told through Japanese haikus and is designed for up to four...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Check, Please!
A few weeks ago I recommended a little, irregularly-updated webcomic about boys and hockey called Check, Please! I talked about the growing fanbase and popularity, and the forthcoming kickstarter. On...
View ArticleDisabled Protagonists + Apocalypse = New Anthology I Never Realized I Needed
Just when I thought I was done with apocalyptic/dystopic fiction I found Defying Doomsday: a crowd-funded anthology featuring disabled characters of all stripes, coping with the end of the world. The...
View ArticleInterview with Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics
Drawing games are awesome. They’re one of the few games I can get most of my friends and family who aren’t into board games to play with me. They are all also big fans of Taboo, and I’m a big fan of...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Cosplanet
Calling all cosplayers! This week’s Kickstarter IndieGoGo is a film called Cosplanet: The Evolution of Cosplay being produced by Respect Films. This documentary is a project that covers the history of...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Elsinore
When a Shakespearean tragedy holds a Groundhog Day twist, a young woman must try to change the future to prevent the death of everyone in the castle. A team of six friends are hard at work developing...
View ArticleThe Broken Frontier Anthology Kickstarter Campaign is Ending Soon
If you’ve been sleeping on the Broken Frontier and A Wave New World collaboration Broken Frontier Anthology, time to hop out of bed and get funding. Ending May 23, 2015, this independent comics...
View ArticleThis One’s For The Girls: Female Authors at Book Expo America
Book Expo America. That special time, once a year, when publishers from across North America gather in New York to talk shop. They roll out the banners and the swag, and pass out their upcoming titles...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Datura: Wearable Art Armor
Be the beautiful bad-ass warrior you’ve always dreamed you could be with this week’s Kickstarter of the Week. No cosplay or sword required. On the campaign page for Datura: Wearable Art Armor...
View ArticleLiving her Dream: Kristi McDowell Chats About Gamer Girl & Vixen
What do you get when you combine a long time dream and a love of comics and fanfiction with a great writing partner and creative team and a desire to see more diversity in comics? You get Gamer Girl...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Dirty Diamonds #6: Beauty
Female comic creators from around the world share their personal stories about beauty in a brand new anthology, Dirty Diamonds #6. In the Dirty Diamonds #6: Beauty Kickstarter campaign, editors Kelly...
View ArticleTop 10 Redheads: Anime Edition
We at Women Write About Comics want to show our support for the red-haired people of this world! Back in 2014, Ashley Schmuecker put out her top ten list of kick-ass superheroes and villains with...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: More Tezuka, More Better!
Amanda and Angel, here, bringing you our excitement over the latest Kickstarter campaign to publish more work by Tezuka Osamu! Amanda: As far as I’m concerned, the wider the availability of Tezuka...
View ArticleColouring Is for Badass Feminists
In case you didn’t know, colouring is the shit. There are truly few artistic pursuits that are both therapeutic and require little-to-no artistic talent to enjoy, and don’t leave you harshing yourself...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: 14 Days (of Chronic Pain)
Chronic pain made a big impact on my childhood, and it continues to impact my adult years. I don’t personally suffer from chronic pain, but those around me do; multiple close family members of mine...
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