WomenWriteAboutComics

Last updated
WWAC
Type of site
comic book
Available inEnglish
Created byMegan Purdy
EditorNola Pfau and Wendy Browne
URL www.womenwriteaboutcomics.com
LaunchedDecember 2011 (2011-12)
Current statusOnline

WomenWriteAboutComics (WWAC) is a comic book website, founded in December 2011 by Megan Purdy. The site has been nominated four times for an Eisner Award, winning three back-to-back from 2020-2022. [1] As of 2022, the site is run by Wendy Browne and Nola Pfau.

Contents

History

WWAC was originally published by Purdy as a WordPress blog, with writer Claire Napier joining as a co-editor early into its existence. The blog was set up with the stated agenda to feature a diverse group of intersectional, international feminists who provide equally diverse insight into the world of comic book culture and the comic book industry at large. In 2012, a post inviting comic bloggers to write about the Women in Refrigerators superhero comic-book trope gained widespread attention [2]

The intersectional feminist style of the website and its contributors has led to it being used as a source by several publications including The New York Times, [3] Vulture.com, [4] and MotherJones.com [5]

In 2017 Purdy stepped down from their role as editor, with Napier following shortly afterwards. In the following year, Nola Pfau and Wendy Browne took over the site as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, respectively. [6]

The site features reviews, reports on mainstream and local conventions, comic book-inspired recipes and crafts, feature essays discussing socio-political happenings in and around the comic book industry, and interviews with members of the comics community.

The website has been archived by the Library of Congress. [7]

Comics Academe

Comics Academe is an ongoing series published monthly on WWAC since 2015, originally curated by Francesca Lyn, a PhD Candidate from the Department of Media, Art, and Text at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2017, Comics Academe has been curated by Katherine Tanski, a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University. Tanski was joined in 2020 by Adrienne Resha, a PhD Candidate in American Studies from William & Mary University.

Comics Academe has garnered international attention from scholars in comics studies, including Rutgers University Press [8] as one of the few curated spaces for public-facing scholarship available for women and non-binary individuals who have a scholarly interest in comics studies.

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