This review is going back about 15+ years but here’s a look from 2010 at Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s excellent Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights. www.fromcovertocover.com/beasts-of-bu...

“Exploring the ways that we play roles to protect ourselves, nearly every person in this story is trying to be something that they’re not.” Taking a look back at Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles. www.fromcovertocover.com/mark-russell...

Tomorrow on the site.

We start out 2026 by looking back on 2025 a bit- the personal highs and lows of it. www.fromcovertocover.com/na-na-na-na-...

"Pope’s inky artwork makes it sometimes difficult to separate the mundane from the wondrous in this story." We start the year with a look at Paul Pope's long-awaited Total THB Volume One. www.fromcovertocover.com/total-thb-vo...

“Cold Day In Hell … [embraces] the characters’ age and the years that have passed. Murdock and Bullseye are old men and look like it.” This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks. www.fromcovertocover.com/charles-soul...

“While it seems easy to boil his work down to simple descriptions that frees you to offhandedly quantify and classify his work as something “Jasonesque”, that’s also an abdication of engaging with Jason in any meaningful way.” www.fromcovertocover.com/the-rebellio...

I see that there’s a Kickstarter campaign for a colorized version of Brian Bolland’s The Actress and the Bishop. I wrote a bit about the strip a couple of years ago. If you haven’t seen these, they’re a lot of fun. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-actress-...

Caroline Cash “expresses joy, frustration, resignation, and joy in her cartooning so it’s easy to get lost in this story without feeling like Cash is having to pull us into it.” Check out Scott’s look at Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special. www.fromcovertocover.com/adventure-ti...

Finally continuing our look at the initial Absolute titles from DC, we dive into Absolute Superman and how it may be a giving us a Superman for 2025. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-kids-are...

“Maybe the Love and Rockets stories should be about growing up and not about being grown up. Enter Tonta and her friends.” On the site today, a look at @xaimeh.bsky.social’s Life Drawings. www.fromcovertocover.com/jaime-hernan...

Giovanna Fabi “moves around the spaces of these connections and the void produced when one of them goes away. Her artwork is very simple and open; it’s easy to put yourself into the position of both the woman and the man…” www.fromcovertocover.com/giovanna-fab...

The first In a planned trio (or maybe quartet) of pieces on the Absolute line over the next month or two. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-scott...

“… there’s nothing in Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo to suggest that Bruce Wayne has any idea of how to engage in the world other than lashing out at it.” A bit about Absolute Batman V1: The Zoo. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-scott...

“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.” www.fromcovertocover.com/review-judge...

“What if instead of keeping people down, we tried to lift them up? Seems simple but Mega City, much like the real world, is not a simple place.” www.fromcovertocover.com/review-judge...

“In the end, this isn’t so much a story but a Saturday Night Live skit…” Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-kevin...

Want to receive From Cover To Cover in your email inbox? Go to the site and click on the subscribe button in the lower right-hand corner of the window. www.fromcovertocover.com#gsc.tab=0

My review of Maurice Vellekoop’s 2024 book “I’m So Happy We Had This Time Together.” “There’s a lot of love in this story as well as a lot of pain and it’s understandably hard for Vellekoop to reconcile these conflicting feelings.” www.fromcovertocover.com/review-im-so...

"Turns out that The Umbrella Academy’s mum and dad had a whole other family. A secret family. Maybe even a favorite family. A better family." Now on the site a review of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's latest issue of The Umbrella Academy, out from @darkhorse.com. www.fromcovertocover.com#gsc.tab=0

“…as just a taste of what was and what is to come, Road to the Six is the right amount of that old familiar spark of action/adventure and the promise that there are more stories to tell…” A look at @cullenbunn.bsky.social and @brihurtt.bsky.social’s latest. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-culle...

It’s been a couple of weeks since the last Comic Bookmarks link post so we’re catching up on news essays, and reviews as well as kicking off this year’s summer season. www.fromcovertocover.com/comic-bookma...

Now up on the site.

We’ve made a tag for books that we’ve covered that have earned an Eisner award and plan to be adding to this over the next two months. www.fromcovertocover.com/tag/eisner20...

There’s an odd flattening out in Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens that makes it a really interesting read. And it’s anti-entertainment megacorps so that’s another plus for it. www.fromcovertocover.com/review-of-ge...

We have some Sunday morning links for you, including the continuing drama around Diamond's sale, the Shuster family's latest attempt to get Superman back, the readership effect on book bans, and more. fromcovertocover.com/the-comic-bookma…

“ The opening is action-packed, a thrill ride that gets us into Asano’s book but it’s not the story that Asano is telling.” @scottcederlund.bsky.social explores Inio Asano’s Mujina Into The Deep Volume 1, out now from @viz.com. #manga #comics fromcovertocover.com/inio-asanos-muji…

We briefly celebrate Superman Day with Wally Wood and then look at cartoonist's thoughts on traveling to the United States, a possible boycott of FIBD, two very different interviews with Dan Nadel, and more. fromcovertocover.com/think-twice-befo…

“… when you get to the end of this issue, you realize that this is the follow-up to another teaser comic that is also trying to tease the next big thing on some conglomerate’s publishing plans.” fromcovertocover.com/the-big-tease-th…

This came out too late yesterday to be included with our Comic Bookmarks but Fieldmouse Press needs some help just to be able receive the books that they already paid for. I have a feeling we’re going to see more creators and publishers running similar campaigns soon.

Beneath the fun profile picture, this week’s Comic Bookmarks column looks at the broken immigration system (yes, it is comic related,) the impact of tariffs, and some good comic criticism. www.fromcovertocover.com/everythings-...

“The narrative draws inspiration from real-life events which is speculative fun, to begin with, but Cantwell and Crook layer these questions and mysteries over the plot that make this an old-fashioned page-turner.” fromcovertocover.com/trying-to-escape…

Already, @denizcamp.bsky.social and @javierrodriguez.bsky.social’s Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 is the debut of the year. Just saw that we’re getting 12 issues of this and it’s going to be great. fromcovertocover.com/absolute-martian…

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

“Rodriguez and Camp are trying to overwhelm our visual senses to get us to experience this comic with our other senses.” Scott takes a look at the first issue of Absolute Martian Manhunter by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez. fromcovertocover.com/absolute-martian…

We’re back with your links for the week, focused on what’s happening with Diamond and highlighting interviews by Off Panel and Prana. fromcovertocover.com/diamond-saved-th…

Ok. The picture may be a bit of a spoiler but we’re back with links talking about procrastination, a top-selling comic that we’ve never heard of, immigration, and reviews. www.fromcovertocover.com/comic-bookma...

“Maybe the Love and Rockets stories should be about growing up and not about being grown up. Enter Tonta and her friends.” On the site today, a look at @xaimeh.bsky.social’s Life Drawings. www.fromcovertocover.com/jaime-hernan...

The storytelling in Ram V, Evan Cagle, and Ricardo Federico’s The New Gods #3 is all about scale and moving between the grand and the personal nature of this story. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-new-gods...

This week’s links, including articles you should check out from @comicsbeat.bsky.social, @chadnevett.bsky.social, @publisherswkly.bsky.social, @comicsjournal.bsky.social and more. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-comic-bo...

Just talking about @kierongillen.bsky.social, @casparw.bsky.social, The Power Fantasy, and the end of the world. “Etienne acts like a man of principles; he talks about ethics, regrets, and missed chances. But when push comes to shove, his actions wipe out any agency that humanity has.“

“ Just the way that we see these superpowers lash out when they feel threatened makes clear the hierarchy of control in this world.” Today on the site, a look at Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s The Power Fantasty Volume One: The Superpowers www.fromcovertocover.com/kieron-gille...

This week’s Comic Bookmarks includes links about Diamond’s continually changing situation, the global fight over AI, one book publisher not requiring promotional blurbs and more. www.fromcovertocover.com/comic-bookma...

This week’s Comic Bookmarks is up, with some Angloulême links, TJC’s Jules Feiffer obituary, reviews, and a great article about political cartooning. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-comic-bo...

We dug into the bookshelves a bit and grabbed Paul Chadwick’s Concrete: Depths. “Whether it’s Concrete’s daring attempt to swim across an ocean or his struggles with his alien body, Chadwick explores the journey of a man embracing these changes.” www.fromcovertocover.com/paul-chadwic...

This week’s Comic Bookmark includes links about the Neil Gaiman news from the past week, Diamond’s bankruptcy, WWAC’s hiatus, David Lynch’s passing, and more. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-comic-bo...

This week’s Comic Bookmarks is up, with links about the lack of sales info, the resurrection of a DC title, the Comic Criticism. Mini-grant, and more. www.fromcovertocover.com/the-comic-bo...

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“Camp [is] embracing various characteristics of the super-soldier concept to create commentary laced with some clear deconstruction.“ Mike on @denizcamp.bsky.social & @stipanmorian.bsky.social’s 20th Century Men. www.fromcovertocover.com/a-politics-o...

Today at the site, a dive into Oscar Zarate’s 2023 book Thomas Girtin: The Fogotten Painter, out from @selfmadehero.bsky.social www.fromcovertocover.com/oscar-zarate...