WaPo Cartoonist Quits, Scholastic Earnings Short, Best Of Lists, and more— The Comic Bookmarks January 5th, 2025
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Mike Baxter
Comics Sure Are Expensive and Other Curmudgeonly Thoughts
Does this difference in price and presentation align with a hierarchy of comics?
From Cover to Cover’s Favorite Comics of 2023
James, Mike and Scott take a look at our favorite comics of 2023.
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.
23 Reads for 2023
Mike picks 23 upcoming graphic novels, series, and collections that should be on your radar for 2023.
From Cover to Cover's Favorite Comics of 2022
Scott and Mike take a look at their favorite comics from 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.
A Politics of Dream - Thoughts on 20th Century Men by Deniz Camp, S. Morian, and Aditya Bidikar
20th Century Men doesn’t overtly bill itself as a superhero comic. And to be fair, it shouldn’t. It is a post-superhero superhero book.
#screenshot reviews- Dune Book 2 & Parker Girls #1
Check out our capsule reviews of Dune The Graphic Novel Book 2 and Parker Girls #1
(More Than) 5 Things to Read this Week
Reviews from Panel Patter and Broken Frontier, Jim Woodring in the New Yorker, a Nate Garcia interview, Shelfdust does Christopher Priest Black Panther, and more in this week's set of links.
Simpsons Comics Return with Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 - Scary Tales and Scarier Tentacles
Simpsons Comics have never had more than a paperback collection, and it's fulfilling to see the comics celebrated in such a loving way.
Overanalyzing the Overexamined Life - Pausing for Grant Snider's The Art of Living
As impressed as I am about the way Snider manages to refine certain elements of his cartooning while maintaining his core minimalism, it’s the philosophy at the center of the book that requires examination.