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The Comic Bookmarks— January 12th, 2025

This week, I deactivated my Facebook accounts, including Instagram and Threads. It’s something that’s been coming for a while now as the whole Facebook experience has just su cked for at least the past few years. When you take recent moves Meta has made, it just made sense

Imaging Space and Silence in Oscar Zarate’s Thomas Girtin: The Forgotten Painter

“Oscar Zarate is telling a story about art and the ways that it’s a life choice by making these characters face several other choices that may or may not be related to art.  But with every challenge faced, with every decision made, it always comes back to Art.“

WaPo Cartoonist Quits, Scholastic Earnings Short, Best Of Lists, and more— The Comic Bookmarks January 5th, 2025

Welcome to another year at FC2C. Hope you had a great New Year. So after the holidays and everything, it’s time to get back to business as normal around here, meaning it’s time to link blog. Since it’s been a few weeks, here’s what‘s been

From Cover to Cover’s Favorite Comics of 2024

Scott’s favorite books of 2024

The 2024 In Reviews and News— Comic Bookmarks December 29th, 2024

A review of the writing at FC2C in 2024

Reader’s Polls, Angouleme’s American invasion, Content Mills Strike Back, and More— Comic Bookmarks December 22, 2024

From the Archives The holidays caught up with us and nothing got finished this week so hereare two pieces by Mike and myself from our days at Panel Patter. A Compassionate Time of Mourning in Jiro Taniguchi’s A Journal of My FatherComic Reviews and commentaryPanel PatterScott CederlundWhy Do Humans

Off To Blue Skies, Amos on Gaiman, Best Of 2024 Lists, and more — The Comics Bookmarks December 15th, 2024

So it’s been a month or so since we did one of these. It felt like we were rolling along pretty good there since we started doing these link posts in the early summer but then we hit November and let’s just say, things happened in November. But

The Breaking of a Good Man— a look at Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov’s The Punisher: Valley Forge, Valley Forge

Maybe it’s not the right time to be writing about a lone gunman prowling the streets of NYC.  Or maybe it is as Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov are less focused on the exploits of Frank Castle the man and more dialed into the symbol that is The Punisher.

A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day

Tokyo These Days isn’t a travelogue or a how to but it wants to let the reader know about the spirit of Tokyo and manga, how they’re intertwined, and how they weigh down on the artists and editors who create them.

How Do We Respond to Trump? “God of Horror” Passes Away and a lot of reviews— The Comic Bookmarks November 10th, 2024

O.k. So I missed last week. In my defense, it was a busy weekend (two concerts and a wedding to attend) and then this past Tuesday just knocked the wind out of everything else that was happening. The Nice House On The Sea #4 by Tynion IV, Bueno, and

The Fight for Justice in Absolute Superman #1

What does Truth, Justice, and the American Way mean after November 5, 2024?

The Nice House On The Sea #4 by Tynion IV, Bueno, and Bellaire— Mini Review

Álvaro Martinez Bueno and Jordie Bellaire’s artwork enhances James Tynion IV’s The Nice House stories, highlighting the contrast between the two houses and the characters’ evolving relationships.

The Return of the Monthly Sales List, Remembering Bernie Mireault, and An Appearance by Alan Moore— Comic Bookmarks October 26, 2024

I was sick last week so didn’t get one of these out so there’s interesting reads from the last couple of weeks here to catch up. Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny" https://t.co/C3857ouRzO pic.twitter.

Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theater #1– Mini Review

An idea in search of a story.