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Review: SuperCakes by Kat Leyh I have been known to read a superhero comic from time to time, despite my routine coverage here at Sequential State avoiding most superhero books. Still, there are a few that grab my attention. The latest superhero comic I really enjoyed was Thor: The Mighty Avenger, which was an all-ages…
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Review: Solanin by Asano Inio This week marks the release of one of the more highly-anticipated manga of the publishing year, A Girl on the Shore from Asano Inio. In 2010, I reviewed an earlier piece by him, Solanin, and I wanted to revisit that work before I wrote about his latest comic. Solanin is…
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sequentialstatement: Episode #6: 2015 Wrap Up Alex and Nick talk about the Star Wars: The Force Awakens, then give their Top 5 comics of the year, as well as a comic that they weren’t able to connect with that everyone else seemed to love. Music by Today’s Man. If you don’t want to listen to…
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Review: Palefire, Written by MK Reed, Illustrated by Farel Dalrymple In my quest to wrap up my 2015 reading I’ve been thinking about a book I received from Secret Acres earlier this year. On paper, Palefire seems like a no-brainer. It’s a collaboration between MK Reed, a talented comics writer whose work I’ve seen (if…
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Review: Generous Bosom Part One by Conor Stechschulte
We’re getting towards the end of the year, and I have been thinking about books that I’ve really enjoyed in 2015. One of those was the first issue of Conor Stechschulte’s Generous Bosom, a book that likely made a few 2014 best-of lists. 2014 seemed like a breakout year for Stechschulte with the release…
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Review: A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova Groundwood Books sent me a copy of their recent release, A Year Without Mom, earlier this year, and in the intervening time between then and now, I’ve been thinking about personal narratives. In this debut graphic novel, Dasha Tolstikova tells the story of growing up in Moscow…
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Review: Frontier #9 by Becca Tobin I mid-October I wrote a micro-review (on Twitter, of course, because blogging is hard) of Becca Tobin’s comic published through the Youth in Decline monograph series Frontier. In a series of tweets I mentioned some stray observations I had made, including some of the thematic elements I found intriguing.…
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Review: Curveball by Jeremy Sorese Let’s start with the basics. Curveball, the first major graphic novel release written and illustrated by Jeremy Sorese, is the loveliest print object with a spine to come across my desk this year. Nobrow has pulled out all the stops with this book; a lovely cover with smartly placed spot…
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Review: Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia I’ve been mulling over Liz Suburbia’s recently released graphic novel published by Fantagraphics. A big softcover book, 312 pages of black and white comics, Sacred Heart is the kind of book you could hurt someone with if you had to. The root of the story is the tangled web…
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Thoughts on Virtual Candle and No Visitors #1, Two Works by HTML flowers
A lot of this Fall has been about slowly revisiting works published around TCAF this year. Top of the stack is Virtual Candle, a 132 page full color paperback book from Space Face Books. Published as the first major collected edition of Grant Gronewold’s comics and illustration work (under the nom de plume HTML flowers), Virtual…
