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Comics That Challenged Me In 2017: Part 1
It’s been an annual tradition at Sequential State to run a series of articles, microreviews really, that are built around a list of comics that challenged me in that calendar year. This list is a list of books that challenged me as a reader, although the definition of challenge is nebulous, and the only requirement…
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Review: What is Left, by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is a rising star of comics, and I’ve been following her work with great interest. She’s currently working on a graphic novel with Mariko Tamaki, and her early work from Talk Weird Press, If Only Once, If Only for a Little While, captivated me. Now she is back with a new mini-comic What…
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Review: Tales from the Hyperverse by William Cardini
Retrofit Comics sent out their final set of comics from their Spring 2017 collection this November, which included the hardcover Trumptrump from Warren Craghead and William Cardini’s latest, Tales from the Hyperverse. Tales from the Hyperverse is a personal collection in Cardini’s strange, psychedelic sci-fi/fantasy universe. I previously reviewed his comic Vortex in 2015, and compared it…
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Review: Golden Kamuy vol. 1 by Satoru Noda
The folks at Viz Media recently sent over some of their latest manga, and I’ve taken some time to read through a few new releases. One that’s been getting some hype is Golden Kamuy, a seinen manga set in the immediate aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War. An army veteran, Saichi Sugimoto, nicknamed “Immortal Sugimoto,” is…
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Review: Bottled, by Chris Gooch
Top Shelf has taken on some younger cartoonists and is publishing a few debuts this fall. One of these debut artists is Chris Gooch, a Melbourne-based cartoonist, whose first graphic novel Bottled broke ground at SPX this year. Gooch has been a fairly active zine maker and anthologist up to this point, and he was…
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Review: It’s No Longer I That Liveth by Francisco Sousa Lobo
I occasionally have the chance to import comics from Europe, and a recent title by Portuguese cartoonist Francisco Sousa Lobo crossed my desk. It’s No Longer I That Liveth, an 88 pager co-published by Chili Com Carne and Mundo Fantasma. It’s printed in yellow and black risograph, and perfect bound. The comic is about teenager Francisco…
