Alenka Figa

Jan 16, 2025 | womenwriteaboutcomics.com | Alenka Figa

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 very funny way to kick off 2025’s WWACommendations, and lead us into a winter break.

Dec 17, 2024 | womenwriteaboutcomics.com | Alenka Figa

This month’s WWACommendations is a riot of emotions. Kathryn’s reading about the discomfort of grief, Emily’s got a memoir that involves funneling emotion into activism, Christa’s got a familiar recommendation that processes feelings of isolation, Kayleigh brings us a horror anthology which of course serves up a great deal of fear, and I’ve got a slice-of-life manga for you that navigates delight, curiosity, frustration and much more.

Nov 14, 2024 | womenwriteaboutcomics.com | Alenka Figa

This month’s WWACommendations could be subtitled: “Damn, Comics Really are Everywhere.” We’re still reading titles published by the big two, but we’re also reading on Webtoons or picking up print collections that started on the app. We’re reading kickstarted collections from well known publishers, books available in bookstores and libraries, volumes self-published by the creators, and comics printed for museum exhibitions.

Oct 31, 2024 | womenwriteaboutcomics.com | Emily Lauer |Alenka Figa |Nola Pfau |Kathryn Hemmann

Cozying down into fall, we here at WWAC have been indulging both in books with really interesting things to say about gender, and as usual, books across the speculative fiction spectrum. Everything from horror stories to sweet, queer retellings of Arthuriana, we’re enjoying it all!Alenka: It’s not quite correct to say that Gretchen Felker-Martin’s new horror novel Cuckoo is about found family.

Oct 29, 2024 | womenwriteaboutcomics.com | Alenka Figa |Kathryn Hemmann |Masha Zhdanova

Comics publisher ShortBox may have folded this year, but Zainab Akhtar’s annual ShortBox Comics Fair still has a sparkling present and future. Open for October, a fabulously curated collection of digital indie works are for sale online. Featuring a ton of creators, some established and some just starting out, it’s a grab bag of wonderful comics. We’ve done a round-up of our favorites just in time for some last minute shopping before the shop closes at the end of the month.