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Review: Spirit Circle V 1-2 by Satoshi Mizukami
The writing here at Sequential State has been a bit sparse – apologies if you’ve been waiting for the latest update. I took a little time off over the last few weeks to decompress and get some reading in. I’ve been doing a lot of prose reading, and getting through some zines and library borrows…
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New Review of Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship on The Comics Journal
The title says it all – my first review for The Comics Journal was published this morning. The book is Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship. The book was originally published in France as Amitié Éternelle, and translated by Elizabeth Zuba for the small US-based publisher Siglio Press. In it, Durand uses official and personal photographs from Albanian state…
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Quick Picks #10 – mini kuš! #63-66
Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. The latest batch of mini kuš comics came in the mail earlier this week, and as always it’s an interesting set. mini kuš #63 – Nausea by Abraham Díaz The first, most noticable quality of Díaz’s comic is how messy…
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Review: Before the Rain by Anne Pomel
One of the things I like about reading small press comics is the hunt. Despite there being distros across the US and a few good bookstores that have online storefronts, so much of what gets published in the small press community is isolated to a single website. That means if you’re trying to find new…
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Review: Minor Leagues No. 4, by Simon Moreton
Simon Moreton recently sent over a copy of Minor Leagues No. 4, a new series he has been working on since the end of his previous Smoo zine series. Minor Leagues contains comics, illustrations, writing, and poetry, and No. 4 is a whopping 82 pages. It’s a zine printed on A5 paper, but the size…