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 that now was the time to do it. Or else I would just be stuck in an endless cycle of going over there and being assaulted by groups and ads that I never signed up for and never seeing anything from people I knew. I hadn’t had any meaningful interaction over there for a long time anyway so it was fairly easy in the end. So in the past couple of months, Xwitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the barely-used-other-than-self-promotion threads have gone bye-bye.
— Jason (@jason1749.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
But a day later, I’m feeling a weird sense of disconnection. Honestly, Facebook was the last connection I had to a lot of people from high school and college. Have I just cut them out of my life for good? What do I feel about that beyond anything more than a sense of nostalgia? But here I am, a bit adrift because that line to the past isn’t there anymore.
There was this one guy I knew in high school. We ran track and cross country together. I don’t know if I would say we were friends but we were definitely more than acquaintances; we were teammates. I still remember one of our first Facebook encounters, when we reconnected about 20 or 25 years after we graduated. One of the first things he did was accuse me of stealing his copy of The Dark Knight #1 and that kind of floored me.
It wasn’t his copy of The Dark Knight that I stole but that’s a story for another time.
Previously on FC2C
Scott Cederlund
Headlines
— Eric Roesch, Rude Law Dog (@esghound.com) December 18, 2024 at 6:05 AM
It feels way too late to stop this because everything has already been strip mined to feed the AI machine.
Susana Polo
Thrilled and intrigued to see another Ram V and Anand RK collab and how their new series uses the old series as its basis.
Comic Sites on Comic Sites
Happy New Year, pals. It's time for the (hopefully annual) comic critics mini grant. My family and I are giving four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
— Tiffany Babb (@explodingarrow.bsky.social) January 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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If you’re a writer about comics, apply for this grant!
Daniel Elkin
It was 5 years ago that Solrad launched! Congrats to them!
Business
Heidi MacDonald
Is anyone calling the lack of sales data a “crisis” other than The Beat or people actually in the industry? But that also says something about The Beat’s place as an industry rag (as we used to call them.) It’s in a place where it’s the industry record as well as serving a more general audience. There are not a lot of other sites out there serving those dual functions.
Tom Brevoort
Lumping this in under business since it’s Marvel High Muckety Muck talking about what he’s looking for from a writer. I wonder if he has something similar for artists? A lot of this seems to amount to his version of “every issue is someone’s first issue” The points about how much text is on the page is fascinating. I kind of want to go back to some of his books (maybe early Bendis Avengers) and see how these guidelines apply to those books.
The Funny Pages
Put the first 13 pages of DROME up on my website. Hitting stores in August from @01firstsecond.bsky.social www.jesselonergan.com/drome
— Jesse Lonergan (@jesselonergan.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Hi. Is your refrigerator running? “Running” is a new eight-page collage comic written and drawn by me, based on photos from friends and willing participants. .pdf version available on a PWYW basis — Itch.io: hagaipalevsky.itch.io/running Gumroad: 5987842792553.gumroad.com/l/running Enjoy:
— Hagai Palevsky (he/him) (@dialhforhagai.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
— Jamie Schler (@lifesafeast.bsky.social) January 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Interviews
D. Morris
The U.S. release of this book was just so weird considering that it was released in the U.K. a year or two ago now.
Reviews & Features
Andy Oliver
Bhanu Pratap is an artist I only recently found, mostly due to Bluesky (social media is still good for something) and his art just fascinates me.
“We’re seeing a way of life disappear, to be replaced with something else—who knows what. There will be rebuilding and regrowth, but what’s gone can never be replaced.” www.rogerebert.com/mzs/whats-go...
— Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Tom Shapira
Another one of those “I really need to get to this one” books, that’s sitting in a pile right now. I‘m thinking that I need to figure out a way to tackle that pile in 2025.
Akira is a very calm, relaxing, decompressed book. No action at all. It just sort of soothes, just look at the pictures. Don't community notes me.
— CHAOS AND COMICS (@chaosandcomics.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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