Rachel Bellwoar

1 week ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

Trans people have always existed but, while it’s one thing to say that, it’s another to be able to point to specific examples and provide a more concrete timeline of trans history. Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett have collected just such a record with their new graphic novel, Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day and you can learn more about it in the following interview:Rachel Bellwoar: Trans History covers so much territory.

2 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

Everyone needs time off, yet it’s one thing Nina isn’t allowed to have in Ileana Surducan‘s graphic novel, The Lost Sunday. That’s because (as the title indicates) Sunday is no more. Saturday goes right into Monday, but if Nina can find Sunday, maybe the week can be set right. For more on this story and the inspiration behind Nina’s hair, check out this interview with Surducan below:Rachel Bellwoar: I didn’t realise until the backmatter that The Lost Sunday was inspired by other fairy tales.

2 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

Warner Archive provided me with a free copy of the Blu-Ray I reviewed in this article. The opinions I share are my own. Maybe this speaks to not being a sports fan or preferring to make draft picks based on arbitrary reasons rather than statistics, but competitions would be a lot more fun if there weren’t always favorites. Sure, every once in a while a longshot wins but, more times than not, it feels like the same teams are always at the top – that the likely winners have already been decided.

3 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

In the same way that you always hope they’ll be an encore at concerts, it’s been two years since Birdcage Bottom Books first published The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening Act. Fans of Desmond Reed‘s fictional band can rejoice, though, because the Cola Pop Creemees are getting back together in The Horrors of Being a Human: A Cola Pop Creemees Comic.

3 weeks ago | wp.me | Rachel Bellwoar

Some of the best films open with funerals: Harold and Maude, Travels with My Aunt. Douglas Hickox‘s Entertaining Mr. Sloane is a welcome addition to that list. Based on the Joe Orton play of the same name (Clive Exton wrote the screenplay and, other than the ending, the bonus features on Severin’s Blu-ray seem to agree it’s fairly faithful), Kath (The Killing of Sister George’s Beryl Reid) isn’t exactly in mourning when the film opens.