The Comic Bookmarks— January 12th, 2025
This week, I deactivated my Facebook accounts, including Instagram and Threads. It’
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
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
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
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
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
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.