WWAC just dropped some new preview pages of How Could You! Like, six whole pages for you to look at right now. These are from chapter 1, which I drew like a million years ago, but you haven't seen these pages yet. That's wild to me, an Aries, who starves without immediate gratification.
How Could You is my debut graphic novel full of dyke drama and it comes out in stores everywhere December 17. Make sure u pre-order ur copieee <3 tysm ilysm
WWAC presents an exclusive preview of the upcoming queer coming-of-age graphic novel, How Could You, from Oni Press!
"It all Ends with Me" got mentioned at WWAC (Women Write About Comics) for one of their 11 ShortBox Comics Fair spotlight! (Link to article)
Less than 24 hours left until the SB Comics fair ends to grab a copy of the comic if you feel like reading something a little scary for this halloween!
From '80s Hasbro toy-inspired cartoon, to an all new story, WWAC talks to Paul Allor about what we can expect from IDW's new G.I. Joe series.
Really nice interview by Nola Pfau, in which Paul Allor lays out his thoughts and approach on the new GI Joe comic. First issue is out this Wednesday!
A lot has happened in the world since your last time in this particular sandbox, do you feel that’s brought a significant change in the kind of stories you want to tell?
Oh, yeah, it’s brought a tremendous, significant change! The original G.I. Joe comic run—which I absolutely adore—was extremely rooted in the Cold War, in a lot of really smart and subversive ways. And when the Cold War ended, those elements of G.I. Joe endured.
But the world is very different, now, marked by asymmetrical warfare, and counterinsurgencies aimed not at winning the war, but at fighting their larger more powerful opponents to a perpetual draw. At the same time, large swaths of the world are increasingly ruled by despots and strongmen who are often welcomed by the people under their rule.
So yes, with this new continuity, we took a fresh look at how G.I. Joe can be adapted to reflect the world around us. And just as the 1980s comic was an allegorical look at the Cold War, rather than a one-to-one comparison, our book operates in the same way.
What do you think is the strength of G.I. Joe as a property? What do you think it has to offer comics as a whole?
I think it’s that combination I mentioned, of having big things to say on a weird, wild canvas, but also the small character moments that it uses to say them. Character work is a big strength of both mine and Chris’, so we’re really leaning into that on this book, hoping to make the most character-driven and pathos-fueled G.I. Joe book ever—which is really saying something!
G.I. Joe is also based around one-shots to a much greater extent than most comic books these days, which allows us to do a deep dive on different characters, to bounce around in time and across continents, to really have some fun with it! Of our first several issues, issue one is the exciting pilot episode, issue two is a quirky, character-driven bottle episode, issue three is a tale of intertwined pathos and sabotage, issue four is a noirish story that takes a deep dive into the psyche of a Cobra operative, and issue five is a simultaneously dark and wacky dystopia!
Branching off of that, what’s your elevator pitch for someone (like me) who’s never gotten into G.I. Joe before?
G.I. Joe is the story of a diverse group of ordinary people who come together to fight back against tyranny—and against the hopelessness that creeping tyranny can create within us.
What could it be like for a story to make good on its edgy lighting? On that feeling it seems to sell you—neon’s shining, ghostly nightscape? The obvious answer is CJ and Anka’s alt-reality drama Superpose, a webcomic drenched in neon. It was nominated for a Prism Award in 2018.
Artist Sage Coffey would have loved to be a wolf as a kid. Now they are illustrating a story about a wolf pretending to be a human in I AM NOT A WOLF.
I got interviewed by the fantastic Laura Stump about working on the @SICKOFWOLVES choose your own path novel with @ItsDanSheehan! We talk about being a wolf kid, visual decisions in the art, and how me and Dan met!
