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Review: Nanjing: the Burning City, by Ethan Young Part of my goal this Winter was to read books published in 2015 as a way to understand the publishing year. I’ve been slowly accomplishing this goal, and a recent read has been Ethan Young’s Nanjing: the Burning City, published in hardcover by Dark Horse. In this…
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“I think I’m fighting my natural tendency towards austerity” – An Interview with Sophie Goldstein
Sophie Goldstein is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Sophie’s most recent graphic novel The Oven was published by AdHouse Books, and was met with critical acclaim. You can see my review of The Oven here. House of Women is Goldstein’s ongoing comics project, and the second volume debuted at SPX in 2015.…
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Review: End of a Fence by Roman Muradov End of a Fence is a pair of firsts; it is @kushkomikss‘ first book in the kuš! mono series, a longform work from a publisher that has traditionally focused on its international comics anthology s! and its mini kuš! comics. It’s also the first fully digital work of…
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sequentialstatement: Episode #9: Launching into SPACE Alex and Nick talk about the upcoming SPACE comics convention in Columbus, OH, where Nick will be tabling with artist Patrick Lay for their comic Multi-. Reviews of: Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt Faith #1 by Jody Houser, Francis Portela, and Marguerite Sauvage New Construction:…
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Review: Real Account vol. 1, Written by Okushou, Illustrated by Shizumu Watanabe Hey there! Long time no see! March was a nice break from writing. I hope you are well. Kodansha Comics sent over a batch of their latest manga, and one of the books that immediately caught my attention is the first volume of…
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Review: Frontier #11 – BDSM by Eleanor Davis I’ve reviewed a few other Frontier monographs from Youth in Decline, either in my Comics That Challenged Me series or in long-form, and I’ve liked or loved many of them. But none of those comics have caused me to have such a quick and visceral reaction as…
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sequentialstatement: Episode #8: First Second’s First 10 Alex and Nick talk about publishing comics, and want you to check out2dcloud’s Kickstarter project. Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: Vision (new series), written by Tom King, Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Colors by Jordie Bellaire Frontier #11: BDSM by Eleanor Davis Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland by Harvey…
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Hey there! If you’re a fan of Sequential State, I want to take a little time today to point you towards 2dcloud’s ongoing Kickstarter project. I back a lot of Kickstarter projects, and I generally don’t talk about them too much on Sequential State. I’m making an exception for a recent campaign because @2dcloud is about…
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Review: DEALING WITH WINTER zine, an anthology edited by Mickey Zacchilli Mickey Z. sent over a copy of DEALING WITH WINTER zine a new anthology from pricetapes edited by Zacchilli, with contributions by a lot of talented artists. The book is 47 pages, risographed single-tone (mostly burgundy, but also teal and purple) pages on an…
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Review: Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger
Girl in Dior was one of NBM Publishing’s Spring 2015 releases. Published in France by Dargaud in 2013 as Jeune Fille en Dior, the book inserts a fictional newspaper reporter turned model into the world of Christian Dior, the famous French designer who took the world by storm in the late 1940s and into the…
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Review: The Beauty Theorem by Beatrix Urkowitz
One of my favorite comics from 2015 was Annie Mok and Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Swim Thru Fire, which was published on Hazlitt Magazine’s website. Under the guiding eye of Anshuman Iddamsetty, Hazlitt has cultivated an impressive portal for alternative comics art, one of the latest of these is Beatrix Urkowitz ’s new comic The Beauty Theorem.…
