WomenWriteAboutComics

WWAC
Type of site	comic book
Available in	English
Created by	Megan Purdy
Editor	Nola Pfau & Wendy Browne
URL	www.womenwriteaboutcomics.com
Launched	December 2011
Current status	Online

WomenWriteAboutComics (WWAC) is a comic book website, founded in December 2011 by Megan Purdy. The site has been nominated three times for an Eisner Award, winning in 2020.^[1] The site is currently run by Wendy Browne and Nola Pfau.

History

WWAC (pronounced "Wuh-Wack") 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 lead 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. Subsequently, Nola Pfau and Wendy Browne stepped in to take over the site as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, respectively, in 2018.^[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The website has been archived by the Library of Congress.^[7]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.

Awards and nominations

2017 Eisner Award nomination for "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism"^[9]
2020 Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship for "4 Colorism: The Ashiness of It All" by Zoë D. Smith^[10]
2020 Eisner Award win for "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism"^[11]
2021 Eisner Award nomination for "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism"^[12]

References

External links

Official website

Category:Internet properties established in 2011 Category:Websites about comics

[1] ttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/2020-eisner-award-winners-announced-1304547

[2] ttps://www.wired.com/2012/01/womeninrefrigerators/

[3] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/books/comics-diversity-america-chavez.html

[4] ttps://www.vulture.com/2015/05/marvels-female-superhero-renaissance.html

[5] ttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/i-am-hopeful-after-x-men-fandom-turned-inclusive/

[6] ttps://www.comicsbeat.com/kibbles-n-bits-5-3-18-last-chance-to-get-this-fabulous-spinner-rack-on-kickstarter/

[7] ttps://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0028513/

[8] ttps://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/mixed-race-superheroes/9781978814592

[9] ttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-eisner-awards-2017-nominations-list-20170502-story.html

[10] ttps://comicssociety.org/prizes/winners/

[11] ttps://www.gamesradar.com/uk/and-the-winners-of-the-2020-will-eisner-comic-industry-awards-are/

[12] ttps://www.comic-con.org/awards/2021-eisner-awards-nominations

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