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.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism - January 29, 2022 we're back with some links for you to check out and of course, we have to start with one of the biggest pieces of news this week... * Comics made their way into broad societal discourse once again with a Tennessee school district's headlining grabbing choice to remove Maus from classrooms
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.
Juni Ba Cease the Means of Production - The First Issue of Juni Ba's Monkey Meat Juni Ba questions both how much we are being manipulated, but also how willing we are to allow ourselves to be manipulated. This worldview is what makes his satire that biting
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.
2021 This Year in Comics Journalism One of the concepts Scott and I tossed around as we came up with the rough draft for From Cover to Cover is the idea of supporting the comic journalism and critic community. The easiest way to do that, of course, is to spotlight the writing about comics that sticks
ryan bodenheim This Week in Comics Journalism - Saying Goodbye to a Great Artist and The Year in Review I'm not entirely sure what to say about the passing of Ryan Bodenheim. In the world of comics, he was a dynamic artist who an aesthetic depth to some of my favorite science fiction comics. I was reminiscing about first picking up Halycon, my introduction to his work, and it
Jim Starlin From The Archives-- The Strange Life and Death of Adam Warlock If Lee/Kirby and Thomas/Kane were telling tales about an innocent childhood of the character, Jim Starlin was dealing with the moody teenage version of Adam Warlock.
2021 Featured From Cover to Cover's Favorite Comics of 2021 Here are our favorites from 2021, a year that saw a lot of great books.Please know this post serves to celebrate our favorites, and while we read a bunch, we certainly don't read everything. Really, there's just too much out there.
Peter Bagge Peter Bagge's Warning in 2010's OTHER LIVES Still Has Meaning Today Peter Bagge’s Other Lives explores our desires to be someone other than who we are, both in a virtual setting but he recognized back then that desire is something that exists beyond the keyboard and computer screen.
Rick Remender From the Archives- Fear Agent Omnibus Volume 1 by Rick Remender, Tony Moore, and Jerome Opeña Fear Agent starts out of an old Wally Wood-inspired science fiction story but Remender, Moore and Opeña tell a story about the failures of one man. Space just happens to be the setting of it.
Screenshot Reviews #Screenshot Reviews-- The Human Target #2 and Fire Power #18 Check out our capsule reviews of Robert Kirkman & Chris Samnee's Fire Power #18, and Tom King & Greg Smallwood's The Human Target #2
Harvey Kurtzman From The Archives- Harvey Kurtzman's Corpse On The Imjin Harvey Kurtzman invited his readers into his stories by allowing them to participate in the story and not just merely reading what was presented to them.
Mirion Malle Featured Mirion Malle Shows Us Just How Strong We Are in This Is How I Disappear Mirion Malle doesn’t judge her characters and asks us to also not to judge them. The book is seeking understanding, empathy, and the ability to allow ourselves to realize we don’t know everything that’s going on in our own or others’ lives.
Kyle Baker From The Archives- Kyle Baker's Why I Hate Saturn (1990) Why I Hate Saturn shows a creator at the beginning of the graphic novel age leading the way and figuring out how to tell a 200 page story.
ricky miller Featured Ricky Miller Talks the Avery Hill Kickstarter Avery Hill has launched its first Kickstarter, and Ricky and I had the chance to chat about what that means for the company, what the spring releases offer new readers, and the role of Avery Hill as a publisher.
Tillie Walden From the Archives: The End of Summer (2016) I don't think I knew who Tillie Walden was before being offered a review copy of The End of Summer at Newsarama. It was actually the second printing of the book but there had been some buzz around it so I figured I'd check it out. Who knew what Tillie
Screenshot Reviews #Screenshot Reviews-- Newburn #1, Primordial #2, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1 Capsule reviews of Newburn #1, Primordial #1, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1.
