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Review: UR by Eric Haven I try as much as possible to keep up with Ad House Books; Chris Pitzer has a good eye for comics, publishing last year’s Noah Van Sciver book and Operation Margarine from Katie Skelly. Published in October of 2014, UR is 48 pages of full color short stories from Eric…
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Appropriation, Western Imperialism, and Privilege: Thoughts on Mahou Shounen Breakfast Club
Author’s note: When returning to my writing from a short internet hiatus, I came across the MSBC “scandal” after it had generally run its course. I wanted to think about root causes and talk about the responsibilities of artists and critics. I hope that this piece causes you to pause, at least for a minute, and…
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Linkblogging #5
Linkblogging is a monthly “go look” feature on Sequential State that I’m using to feature fun comic things aroundthe internet. There is a lot of great stuff to look at on the internet. Thestuff featured is just the stuff I’ve been looking at lately. If I missed yourthing, send me a message! Crowdfunders: Lots (and…
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2015-02-222021-05-22_SkypeCall_sequentialstate_Serafina20Dwyer-1 It’s good to be back! Late in February, serafina-dwy and I had a chat about the Kickstarter project Serafina is running, Love in All Forms: The Big Book of Growing Up Queer. While I’m still trying to transcribe the audio to make the interview more accessible, I’m going to post the audio from that…
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Interview: Katie Skelly on her new comic TONYA
Last week I got the chance to chat with Katie Skelly over email about her newest comic, TONYA. Released through the digital content delivery site Gumroad, this book immediately caught my attention because of its protagonist – the infamous Tonya Harding. Katie and I talked about the conflict between Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, isolation and…
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Review: The Sculptor, by Scott McCloud
One of the more highly-trumpeted comics to be published in 2015 is Scott McCloud’s The Sculptor with interviews and reviews in national media like NPR and on popular media sites like Boing Boing. McCloud is best known for his nonfiction comics about understanding and making comics, but The Sculptor is a work that apparently…
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Musings: Beauty by Hubert and Kerascoët It is hard to thoroughly discuss any work with any brevity. Often times a critic’s thoughts and ideas about a specific piece must be abandoned due to word counts. I admit I do this regularly – instead of bringing up all of the thoughts I have about a piece, I tend…
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Review: Fertility by Gosia Herba and Mikołaj Pasiński The Polish publishing house Centrala recently set up a wing of their publishing operation in London and has already put together a small slate of English-language books, including Fertility, a dark and evocative fairy tale about the nature of societal expectations and their consequences. Secret medicine, potions,…
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Looking Forward: Space Face Books Spring 2015 Publishing Slate
Happy Friday! It’s a new year, and that means publishers are starting to reveal Spring 2015 slates. There have been a lot of exciting announcements the past two weeks, one of which is 2D Cloud’s 2015 publishing expansion. Nestled in a post that includes two new employees for the micropress was a list of authors…
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Review: SCREWJOB #1, edited by Paul Lyons Contributors: Box Brown, Pat Aulisio, Lale Westvind, Josh Bayer, Blake Sims, Brian Ralph, Paul Lyons, Mickey Zacchilli, Walker Mettling, James “GUNSHO” Quigley, Matt Leines A review copy was provided by the publisher. There was always a ban on “indecent” television in my parent’s home growing up. My brother…
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Review: In Clothes Called Fat (with emphasis on comparison to Kyoko Okazaki’s Pink)
I wanted to take some time to discuss Moyoco Anno’s new comic In Clothes Called Fat late last year, and I’m finally getting around to it now. Recently, Katie Skelly wrote a thoughtful review of In Clothes Called Fat and compared it to Kyoko Okazaki’s Helter Skelter, a seminal josei manga of the 1990s. After having…
