From The Archives From the Archives- Paul Moves Out (2005) Rabagliati's semi-confessional story is a wonderful slice of life story that you just can't get in any other storytelling format. Rabagliati takes advantage of comic's ability to easily make the reader identify with the characters and pull them in for a most unremarkable story.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism-- June 5th, 2022 A look at this week's comic writing from Publisher's Weekly, Sequential, Paul Gravett, Panel Patter, Ligne Claire, The Washington Post, and Newsarama.
From The Archives From The Archives- Jonah Hex #50 (December 2009) Maybe Hex wants to change, maybe he doesn't. But he's never given the opportunity to choose who or what he wants to be. He's a killer, and as fate will have it, that's all he's going to remain.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism- May 28th, 2022 A look at some of what happened this week in (and outside) of comics, including writing by Calvin Reid, Graeme McMillan, Alex Dueben, and Rob Clough.
Julie Doucet Welcome to the Party in Julie Doucet's Time Zone J Julie Doucet's time away from comics has given her the freedom to just jump back into their creation, rewriting the rules about how she’s going to tell her story.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism- May 21st, 2022 It's been a while since we've done one of these. We'll try to do better in the future, we promise. But instead of wallowing in the general time suck that is life, let's just jump into a few of the things that have caught our eyes this week, including more
I Don’t Think I Can Ever Eat A Pierogi Again- thoughts on Nate Garcia’s Muscle Horse Part of the fun of this comic is the feeling that Garcia is going to do something completely messed up on the next page. And then again on the next page, and the page after that, and the page after that.
Matt Wagner Catching Up With the Devil in Grendel Devil’s Odyssey by Matt Wagner As Wagner writes this story of Grendel encountering these worlds and civilizations to determine if they fall in the parameters of his mission, there’s an unspoken question of his own place in this future that he’s trying to ensure. Is he a real boy?
jim rugg Some Nice Design in Jim Rugg's Hulk Grand Design Monster There are just these clips and memories of old comics. This is not a Hulk comic but a comic about Hulk comics, a snake eating its tail.
Nick Dragotta "Bet On Your Blind Obedience!!"-- quick thoughts on Ghost Cage #1 A new comic that's full of awe and wonder but light on anything else.
Week In Comics Journalism The Week In Comics Journalism— March 19, 2022 A look at some of the news in the world of comic books from the past week.
John Porcellino Letters from Beloit, Wi.- catching up with John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comix & Stories #81 King-Cat Comix & Stories #81 is that letter from a long-distance pen-pal, catching up with them after not hearing from them since last year.
Screenshot Reviews #screenshotreviews- What's the Furthest Place From Here #4 and The Nice House On The Lake #7 Capsule reviews of What's The Furthest Place From Here #4 and The Nice House On The Lake #7.
George Perez What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and George Perez’s JLA/Avengers? An appreciation of George Pérez's stellar work on the JLA/Avengers crossover.
Lale Westvind Getting Caught Up In the Hands of Lale Westvind's GRIP How do you even begin to describe the ways that Lale Westvind plays with time, with movement, and with space in this comic? She molds form and space around this woman in exaggerated ways that signal this journey’s spiritual elements as much as it does its physical one.
Week In Comics Journalism The Week In Comics Journalism- February 5, 2022 A look at a some of the writing about comics from the past week.
R. Kikou Johnson Teenage Boredom in R. Kikou Johnson's Night Fisher Johnson’s story of Loren’s “lost” senior year, marked by drug use and criminality, shows a kid who isn’t bad but just looking for something to fill a void. With no personally-held goals, the influence of other people gives Loren something to do other than school and yard work.
Screenshot Reviews #Screenshot Reviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #3 and Usagi Yojimbo #25 Capsule reviews of What's The Furthest Place From Here #3 and Usagi Yojimbo #25.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism - January 22, 2022 A look at the week in comic journalism, including reviews of Nod Away, Enter the Blue, and To Eat and To Drink, as well as a profile on the great Trevor Von Eeden.
Mike Mignola From The Archives- Hellboy: The Midnight Circus by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo Hellboy: The Midnight Circus feels like a proper Halloween story, one told late at night around a blazing campfire. Mignola, Fegredo, and Stewart keep building up the mystery of the circus as well as the creepiness of it.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism - January 15, 2022 Our weekly look at the week that was in comics. At least, the stuff that jumped out at us.
simon hanselmann Simon Hanselmann Hopes You're OK and So Do We For the past two years, we’ve seen our art and entertainment trying to adapt and react to our times but no one has done it quite like Simon Hanselmann.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism - January 8, 2022 Remember when the start of the year was a "slow news week?" Yeah, we don't either. Here's a selection of what we found interesting in the last week.
Screenshot Reviews #screenshotreviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Rorschach, and Asadora V4 Check out our capsule reviews of Tyler Boss and Matthew Rosenberg's What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Naoki Urasawa's Asadora! Volume 4, and Tom King and Jorge Fornés Rorschach.
crowdfunding Featured Who We Support- January 2022 One of the main things that Mike and I talked about when we were first hatching FC2C was our intentionality in supporting comic creators, comic journalists, and comic critics. And that also includes our monetary support through various crowdfunding campaigns.
