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Growing Up Day by Day in Keigo Shinzo's Hirayasumi Volume 7 Keigo Shinzo’s slice-of-life story captures the ups and downs that most of us face every day, reflecting them through our own insecurities as we watch these mismatched cousins try to navigate their li...

Keigo Shinzo’s Hirayasumi is one of the best #manga series out there right now and @scottcederlund.bsky.social explores what he’s doing in the 7th volume.

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Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Restate The Question Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan reintroduce The Question only to tear him down again before they can build him back up.

We take a look at 1986’s The Question #1 by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan.

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From the Archives- Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights Have you looked inside your dog’s house today to see who or what is in there?

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.

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“Change Your Heart…”— Lessons from Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Mark Russell and Mike Feehan’s comic is a reminder and a call to arms.

“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.

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A paper airplane flies over people’s head. One cartoon word ballon asks “Where can you fly to?” Another word ballon answers “Fly away, as far as you can.”

Tomorrow on the site.

Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye (to 2025)-- Comic Bookmarks for January 4, 2026 The year that was...

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

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Is There Life on Mars? — a look at Paul Pope’s Total THB Volume One Total THB doesn’t feel like a 30 year old comic book.

"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.

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Charles Soule and Steve McNiven Explore Ghosts in Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell Frank Miller casts a long shadow over this story and Charles Soule and Steve McNiven know it.

“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.

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The Rebellious Comics in Jason's Death In Trieste Jason doesn’t give you any more than he has to and that’s often less than you think you need.

“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.”

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One Panel- The Actress and the Bishop Throw a Party by Brian Bolland A look at one of Brian Bolland’s best panels.

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.

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Off to College in Caroline Cash's Adventure Time Alternate Universe Story So if we know that the story is a meet-cute story, that allows Cash to focus on how we move through this story.

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.

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The Kids Aren't Alright Part 2-- Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval's Absolute Superman: Last Dust of Krypton So what does the story of an alien boy, saved from a dying world by his parents and sent to Earth, look like in 2025 when “alien” is an extremely loaded and fraught word?

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.

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Back in the Day, We Used To Be Punk — on Jaime Hernandez’s Life Drawings Is this Love and Rockets: The Next Generation or the continuation of an ongoing story that started over 40 years ago?

“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.

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Loving the Grid in Giovanna Fabi’s Perfect Love (mini kuš! #133) Giovanna Fabi uses her artwork to evoke so many feelings out of the reader.

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…”

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The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo Nick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.

The first In a planned trio (or maybe quartet) of pieces on the Absolute line over the next month or two.

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The Kids Aren’t Alright-- Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman Volume One: The Zoo Nick Dragotta jumps between the child-like innocence of childhood to the darkness of modern existence where it seems like nothing means anything anymore.

“… 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.

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We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better World The perfect comic that we need in 2025.

“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.”

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We Don’t Need No Education- A Look at Judge Dredd: A Better World The perfect comic that we need in 2025.

“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.”

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Review— Kevin Smith Presents: Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob Why does this comic exist?

“In the end, this isn’t so much a story but a Saturday Night Live skit…”

Thoughts on Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob.

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Review: I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop This forms the space for Vellekoop to dig into these different relationships in his life, some of which are deep-rooted while others are fleeting connections that are more building blocks for Maurice ...

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.”

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Cover of The Umbrella Academy: Plan B #1, looking like an airline safety brochure

"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.

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The Tease and the Promise of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun: Road to the Six #0 Sometimes a tease is all you need.

“…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.

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RIP Peter David, Eisner Noms, Living in a Post-Diamond World and more... The Comic Bookmarks— June 1st, 2025 Our summer season started this week. You may remember that last year, our 2024 summer season included posts (almost) every week between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I'm not too sure if we're going to b...

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.

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Now up on the site.

Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Logo

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.

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Superheroes, Aliens, and Cartoons, Oh My!!! - a review of Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, and Chris Weston’s Paranoid Gardens Gerard Way and Shawn Simon doing their obscure Vertigo book, just for Dark Horse. So who better to get to draw than Chris Weston?

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.

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Neil Gaiman Just Won’t Go Away, Not So Fast Alliance, and more… The Comic Bookmarks— April 27th, 2025 The more includes Superman Lawsuit, the loss of Bookscan numbers, a Megalopolis adaptation, and an interview with Rebecca Burke.

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.

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Living Outside of the Law in Inio Asano’s Mujina Into the Deep Volume 1 The opening is action-packed, a thrill ride that gets us into Inio Asano’s book but it’s not the story that Asano is telling.

“ 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

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Think Twice Before Traveling to the States, FIBD Boycott, Star Wars Kickstarter and More-- The Comic Bookmarks April 20th, 2025 It's getting hard to have a link column that isn't somehow political.

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.

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