“The writing is minimalist and matter-of-fact, occasionally vetero-testamentary in tone... as a critique of both the eternal feminine and mainstream feminism, W the Whore stresses the importance and the value of imagination and creativity over social analysis and commentary......A translator’s note and an interview with the authors provide valuable information on the collaboration between writer and artist, the origin of the series, and its cult following. In the end, W the Whore may never find what she is looking for, but when she meets R the Reader, it is love at first sight." —World Literature Today

“Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin de Vries’s W the Whore has been collected in its entirety in English (translated from the German by Mark David Nevins) for the first time. Its heroine negotiates desire, marriage and childbirth in a stark, intimate and sometimes very funny book about life and gender roles.” —James Smart, The Guardian “Best Graphic Novels of 2023”

“W the Whore is a succession of comics formed out of disconnection and rupture. Its creators came together from opposite sides of the Berlin Wall’s rubble, and the resulting nine stories concern the violent confusion enacted on women’s bodies by patriarchy, the labyrinthine structures women are placed within under patriarchy’s chilling shadow, and the mounting contradictions enacted upon women deemed to be whores.” —Helen Chazan, The Comics Journal

"[P]oetic and dreamlike collection of graphic parables." —Publishers Weekly