Paco Roca
Lost Reflections on a Photograph in Paco Roca's Return to Eden
In Paco Roca’s new book, each generation just wants to see their mothers smile.
Fantagraphics
Casanova Frankenstein
Can a kid just be a kid? Thoughts on Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pearce's How To Make A Monster
Casanova Frankenstein and Glenn Pearce map out the childhood trauma that forges the person we become, allowing us to accept the monster in us.
gilbert hernandez
From the Archives- Julio's Day (2013)
A simple life doesn’t necessarily equal a life that is simple as Gilbert Hernandez reminds us in Julio’s Day, the story of a man’s 100-year life that spans the 20th century.
Fantagraphics
Whatever Happened to the Adventure Capitalist?
The publishing history of Disney Comics is long and complicated. Mike takes a dive into it and tries to figure out how we could get more Uncle Scrooge comics.
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.
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.
2021
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.
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.
Carl Barks
From the Archives-- Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes (2011)
Once upon a time, there was a dream. That dream was of a comic website where a number of critics would be given the same book to write about. That dream was Flashmob Fridays [http://flashmobfridays.blogspot.com]. If I'm being honest, Flashmob Fridays was one of the