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Review: Joyride by Zoë Taylor
There’s been an upswing in what I might call “lo-fi comics”that I’ve noticed recently on tumblr and instagram, and Joyride, Zoë Taylor’s latest major book from Breakdown Press, seems to epitomize that movement. Taylor had a selection in the comics anthology DÔME printed by Breakdown Press and Lagon Revue at Angouleme last year, but Taylor is…
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Review: The Train by Chihoi / Hung Hung
In 2014, Conundrum Press, through their Conundrum International line, printed The Train, a collaborative comic based on Taiwanese poet Hung Hung’s award-winning serialized short fiction Wooden Horses. Originally published in 1998, this story was later adapted into a graphic novel in 2007 by Hong Kong-based artist Chihoi. Unlike many comics adaptations, in The Train, the comic and the…
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Review: Libby’s Dad by Eleanor Davis
2016 was a year for Eleanor Davis comics. First it was Frontier #11: BDSM,which I reviewed in February last year. Then a big pile of pages from her cross-country bicycle trip, which are now being collected by Koyama Press. Davis’ latest, Libby’s Dad, is a 40-page full color saddle stitched comic from Retrofit. When Retrofit…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2016: The Complete List
Tumblr handlles listed so that you can check out the cartoonist and publisher if desired. Check out the capsule reviews at the following links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 This list is ordered randomly. Carpet Sweeper Tales – Julie Doucet, Drawn and Quarterly…
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Comics that Challenged Me in 2016: Part 5
We’re nearing the end of the list – it’s only today and Friday and we’ll have finished up this year’s exercise in identifying the comics that challenged me as a reader and critic in 2016. I would love to hear your feedback on what has become an annual tradition here on Sequential State. Part 1 | Part 2 |…
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Review: What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy by Rokudenashiko
One of the big announcements leading up to TCAF 2016 was that Rokudenashiko would be in attendance to support the release of a new graphic novel memoir from Koyama Press in coordination with Massive Goods. Rokudenashiko is the artist world-famous for her manko art (manko is a slang word for vagina in Japan, like a…
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Review: P-FE/FRAF by Ville Kallio
The latest batch of comics from kuš! comics has been has been new work from rising artists as well as perennial favorites. Michael DeForge’s latest work, Meat Locker, are comics that he has been publishing on Patreon for some time. The first of the latest set of mini kuš! that caught my eye is…
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Review: Hotel Rompo by Talya Modlin
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the comics work published in 2016. I think, despite the generally accepted fact that the year was horrible, the creative output for the year, especially in comics, was startlingly good. One of my favorite comics from 2016 is Hotel Rompo, a 3 foot accordion book from Perfectly…
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Review: MOONCOP by Tom Gauld
I’m trying to get back into the swing of things while I still have some small measure of 2016 left to me to write. Nothing like starting out on the right foot for a new year. My annual feature, Comics That Challenged Me, will be starting next week and will run through the holidays. I’ve…
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Review: What Happened by Simon Moreton
I’m woefully behind on my reading – in fact, I’ve been planning to read Simon Moreton’s Plans We Made (released by Uncivilized Press in 2015) for about a year now, and I haven’t gotten around to it (the blame rests solely on my own shoulders). But when the books from the Kilgore Books Kickstarter came in…
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Review: Blammo #9 by Noah Van Sciver
I’ve been reviewing Van Sciver’s work for a while now. His “A Lizard Laughed,” now collected in Disquiet, was one of my first reviews published on this platform. I’ve been following Van Sciver’s comics very closely since 2013, and one of the great joys of being a “long-time” reader is to see an artist advance. It’s…
