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Comics That Challenged Me in 2017: Part 4
Today is the final installment of a four part list of comics that challenged me in 2017. Here are links to the first part of the list, the second, and the third. The full list will be published shortly after this post goes live. Links to the rest of the list: | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Full List | I’m…
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Go, See, Buy? – Apartment Number Three
As we wrap up the year, I wanted to plug Sequential State’s Patreon account. Below the cut line is a feature I run on the Patron for $1 patrons called Go, See, Buy?, featuring Apartment Number Three by Pascal Girard. If you want to skip ahead, feel free. I try not to talk about the…
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Review: NOW #1, edited by Eric Reynolds
This article was originally published at Your Chicken Enemy. I’ve been waiting for the release of NOW #1 since it was announced in May. At the closure of Eric Reynold’s last anthology project, MOME, I was still reading manga and whatever shitty graphic novels were thrown my way by well-meaning college buddies. I hadn’t figured…
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Review: Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte
The SPX pile is slowly getting smaller, and I’m starting in on some of the bigger books from the show. One of those is Linnea Sterte’s Stages of Rot from PEOW Studio. The book is 152 pages in full color, with french flaps and spot gloss. Sterte works mostly in cool pastel colors, and…
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Kickstarter Feature: PersonaЖ by Sputnikat Press
We’re deep in the midst of comics crowdfunding season, and while a lot of the projects on crowdfunding sites seem like chaff, there are a few that rise up as truly interesting, exciting projects. I recently posted about the 2dcloud summer season, which made its funding goals, and I’m back today with another Kickstarter feature. A…
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Kickstarter Feature: 2dcloud’s Summer 2017 Collection
One of the things I love about the small press comics scene is its vibrancy. There are so many vital cartoonists making work that is mind-altering and life changing. I’ve read and reviewed books this year that have made my head spin. I’ve read comics that have changed the way I think, comics that have…
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Thoughts on the Formal Aspects of Small Comics feat. B.ü.Lb comix
Almost two years ago, B.ü.L.b comix, a European publisher based out of Geneva, sent me a little box full of tiny accordion style comics. The 2[w] series, as they’ve been titled, are all 3.5 x 4.5 cm comics in an 11-sheet accordion. I’ve been thinking a lot about those little accordions, which all fit neatly…
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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, “the other one.” Klub zin #1,…
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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 years now. But I left a…
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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. I’m making some big changes! I…
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Review: Angel of a Rope by Adam Buttrick
Review: Angel of a Rope by Adam Buttrick I recently got a copy of Angel of a Rope from Domino Books, the publisher and distro run by Austin English. English’s comics are quite dense, and it wasn’t a surprise to find that the books he distributes are similarly inclined. Adam Buttrick’s work recently came to my attention…
