Noah van Sciver Noah Van Sciver Explores Childhood Turmoil and the Power of a Good Comic in Maple Terrace #1 Through captivating artwork and a narrative self-portrait, Noah Van Sciver explores the impact of fear and the transformative power of Spawn #5.
Rick Veitch Rick Veitch's The One: A Cold War Comic Reflecting Today's Superhero Culture and Humanity's Struggle for Unity Rick Veitch's The One challenges the notion of superhero power, reflecting the failures of a broken world.
joe kessler The Gull Yettin is a Minimalist Masterpiece Form is at the heart of Kessler’s art. As free-flowing, and perhaps occasionally haphazard as it might seem on first blush, it is ultimately an exercise in precision.
My Claremont Year- March/April 2023 This period around 1982/1983 marked a shift in the X-Men characters themselves, turning them from superheroes into characters who are often wrestling with themselves as much as they are the bad guys.
leslie stein Leslie Stein's "Brooklyn's Last Secret": A Road Story about the Band You Wish You Knew Experience the Ultimate Hangout with Major Threat As They Hit the Road For a Summer Tour
rob kirby Getting the same tax breaks as the heterosexuals- a look at Rob Kirby's Marry Me a Little Rob Kirby's “Marry Me a Little” Sheds Light on the Daily Struggles of Queer Identity in America.
tatsuki fujimoto Good and Bad Days in Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back Fujimoto comes back to the image of the girls working on their manga many times and it has a ring of truth to it like he’s speaking from his own experience, bordering somewhere along the sacred and the mundane.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- February 2023 Days of Future Past establishes the story that Claremont told in Uncanny X-Men but it takes him a few years to realize that.
Tom King The Dead and the Dying in The Human Target #12 The Human Target #12 is about saying goodbye without letting go.
Richard McGuire Explore the Mystery of Time in Richard McGuire's Here (1989) Take a trip through time in Richard McGuire's Here.
2023 23 Reads for 2023 Mike picks 23 upcoming graphic novels, series, and collections that should be on your radar for 2023.
Pornsak Pichetshote Playing By The Rules in Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi’s The Good Asian If any book can live up to the legacy of “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” it’s Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi's The Good Asian.
Chris Claremont My Claremont Year- January 2023 Chris Claremont's earliest X-Men stories chart a new course for superhero comics.
todd mcfarlane The Empty Writing of Todd McFarlane Todd McFarlane’s two recent books lack one critical thing— actual writing.
2022 From Cover to Cover's Favorite Comics of 2022 Scott and Mike take a look at their favorite comics from 2022.
2022 From Cover to Cover's 2022 Favorite Archival Editions and Collections Mike and Scott take a look at some of their favorite collected editions from 2022.
Casanova Frankenstein Can a kid just be a kid? Thoughts on Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pearce's How To Make A Monster Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pearce map out the childhood trauma that forges the person we become, allowing us to accept the monster in us.
tradd moore "Go home, traveler"- thoughts on Tradd Moore's Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 (and maybe a few words on Ronin Book II #1) Tradd Moore’s artwork is strange and fantastic, inspired by pop art as much as it is by comics. He’s telling a story about magic and his art is imbued with a different kind of magic.
Kate Beaton Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Kate Beaton is giving us this insight into Kate’s story that she and the people in her life at the time don’t have. And the cruelty is that we’re even less capable of nurturing or protecting Kate than the people and systems that are part of her life.
Neil Gaiman An Introduction To the World in Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman: The Silver Age #1 Young Miracleman wasn’t resurrected because of who or what he was but because one old man with too much power felt alone and rudderless in the world that he has made.
Neil Gaiman From the Archive- Miracleman: The Golden Age Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham reveal this post-superhero world through the stories and lives of normal but unsettled men and women.
alan moore Welcome the Mighty Marvel Age of Miracleman Miracleman #0 feels less like a celebration and more like a warning of what can happen to the character once Gaiman and Buckingham are finally done with him once and for all.
Chip Zdarsky Newburn Volume One by Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips’ Newburn Volume One pulls at the private eye story, operating in the established noir rules but giving us a protagonist that may be an actual bad guy.
Alex Ross The Maximalist Storytelling in Alex Ross' Fantastic Four: Full Circle It’s like Alex Ross had a homework assignment— create your own Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four story.
Week In Comics Journalism 5 Things To Read the Week- Aug 27th, 2022 Our weekly link post, covering writing about Marvel Fun and Games, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class, Naoki Urasawa's Master Keaton, Tom King's Batman and the 50th anniversary of Funky Winkerbean.
