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Comics Kickstarter Feature – klub zin #2 “the other one”

Yesterday I featured Warmer, a comics poetry anthology on Kickstarter, edited by Madeleine Witt and Andrew White. Warmer is doing well and looks like it’s well on its way to funding. Another Kickstarter anthology that I’m interested in could use a little help. The anthology is klub zin #2,...

Comics Kickstarter Feature – Warmer, ed. by Madeliene Witt and Andrew White

When Sequential State was a younger project, I tried a lot of different features and formats to talk about comics that I thought were interesting. As the project grew, I moved deeper and deeper into criticism. It’s something I’m comfortable with. I have been reviewing comics for nearly 10...

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Comic Review – Steam Clean by Laura Ķeniņš

The first round of books from Retrofit’s 2017 Kickstarter campaign made it to me this week. I immediately dug in to Laura Ķeniņš’ graphic novel Steam Clean. My knowledge of Ķeniņš’ work comes from the kuš! comics mini she did, Alien Beings. Ķeniņš’ body of this work seems focused on...

Comic Review: HEDRA by Jesse Lonergan

Last year Jesse Lonergan sent me a copy of his comic HEDRA to take a look at. HEDRA is a 48-page science fiction comic printed on newspaper sheet. At first the comic puzzled me. Newsprint comics are both common and rare. It is common to see syndicated comics printed...

Site Update

Hi everyone! There are some major changes going down at Sequential State. I thought I would take a quick moment to explain what’s been happening during the first week of June. I had the chance to do some long term planning for the site over the last 3 months....

Comic Review: T by Bailey Sharp

Up and coming cartoonist Bailey Sharp sent over a new comic to review in November last year and I just recently got around to reading it. This should tell you how far behind I am on my reading (it’s bad folks); the book was one of the comics included...

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Manga Review: Dreamin’ Sun, vol.1 by Ichigo Takano

Ichigo Takano is building a reputation in the United States as a mangaka of note. Takano’s comic orange was published in two omnibus editions by Seven Seas Entertainment and was nominated for an Eisner this year in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category. This is Seven Seas’ first Eisner nomination,...

Review: Spookytongue by Hetamoé

Review: Spookytongue by Hetamoé I recently ordered a slew of comics from Ediciones Valientes, a Valencia-based Spanish publisher known best in the US for publishing the work of Martín López Lam. I’m not certain what the structure of Ediciones Valientes looks like – it’s possible that López Lam is...