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Review: Twin Bed by Robyn Chapman
I’ve been reviewing comics about dysfunctional relationships this week (Lulu Anew, Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam and Other Stories), so I think it’s best to finish the week off with Robyn Chapman’s latest comic, recently published through a small Kickstarter project this winter. Chapman has slowly been plugging away as the publisher of the micropress…
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Darkening Sameness: Thoughts on Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam and Other Stories by Simon Hanselmann
Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam and Other Stories (Amsterdam from this point forward) is Simon Hanselmann’s latest Megg, Mogg, and Owl release from Fantagraphics. It collects 160 pages of Hanselmann’s comics which have originally appeared on the internet and in other forms, including the collaborative zine Werewolf Jones & Sons with Melbourne-based artist HTMLflowers. One…
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Thoughts on The Greek Chorus and Circular Storytelling of Lulu Anew by Étienne Davodeau
I recently finished up reading a stack of newish NBM books. I was surprised by Lulu Anew, a 2008-2010 French comic by Étienne Davodeau that NBM translated and published under their ComicsLit line in 2015. In Lulu Anew, the main character Lulu walks away from an unsuccessful interview and an unhappy marriage and into the…
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Some Quick Thoughts on TCAF 2016
I’m back from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I got into Toronto on Friday and left early morning on Sunday. This is becoming something close to an annual pilgrimage. I’m pretty enamored with TCAF as an idea, and Toronto, as gigantic metropolitan areas go, could be a lot lot worse. I ate and drank very…
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Review: The Fun Family by Benjamin Frisch Remixing the dusty, rattling corpses of newspaper comics has become something of a recent trend in indie publishing; Garfield Minus Garfield, the internet darling, is likely a progenitor of the latest wave of these comics that poke around with the classic modern newspaper funnies. These comics mine (and…
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Alex Hoffman is creating comics criticism and writing | Patreon
Alex Hoffman is creating comics criticism and writing | Patreon Hey there! If you follow Sequential State on tumblr or visit the website often, you know that Sequential State is an independent website dedicated to thoughtful reviews and commentary of alternative and independently published comics. Since day one, I’ve tried to make Sequential State a…