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Interview: Kevin Czap and L Nichols on Ley Lines

Hi readers. As part of this week’s Ley Lines coverage, I sat down with publishers and cartoonists L Nichols and Kevin Czap. Together as Grindstone Comics and Czap Books, they have been publishing Ley Lines since 2014. I did an interview with them in 2015 about the series, and...

Interview: Laila Milevski, on Enter, Holy Pilgrim

This week I’m featuring a recent release from Czap Books and Grindstone Press; Ley Lines #9, Enter, Holy Pilgrim. Yesterday we started with a review of the book; today I sit down to interview Laila Milevski, the creator, to talk about her inspiration and her thoughts about the creative...

Comic Review: Enter, Holy Pilgrim by Laila Milevski

This week I’m happy to present a series of articles focused on Enter, Holy Pilgrim, by Laila Milevski. Today is the comic review of that book, and later this week we will have two interviews. The first interview is with Laila about Enter, Holy Pilgrim. The second interview is...

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Quick Picks #7: Pence, Blomerth, and Booger

Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of mini comics reviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of zines I’ve been reading recently. Nul is one of a recent batch of mini kuš! and a striking story of obsession and radicalization. An...

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...

Review: Spookytongue by Hetamoé