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Comic Review: The Academic Hour by Keren Katz
Secret Acres sent me a copy of The Academic Hour this summer. Katz’s work has been on my radar for some time; her comics have been in Ink Brick as well as Future Shock Zero. But The Academic Hour is my first experience with Katz’s work at length. Nominally, The Academic Hour is a love…
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Interview: Kevin Czap and L Nichols on Ley Lines
Hi readers. As part of this week’s Ley Lines coverage, I sat down with publishers and cartoonists L Nichols and Kevin Czap. Together as Grindstone Comics and Czap Books, they have been publishing Ley Lines since 2014. I did an interview with them in 2015 about the series, and I sat back down with them…
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Interview: Laila Milevski, on Enter, Holy Pilgrim
This week I’m featuring a recent release from Czap Books and Grindstone Press; Ley Lines #9, Enter, Holy Pilgrim. Yesterday we started with a review of the book; today I sit down to interview Laila Milevski, the creator, to talk about her inspiration and her thoughts about the creative process in working on a Ley…
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Comic Review: Enter, Holy Pilgrim by Laila Milevski
This week I’m happy to present a series of articles focused on Enter, Holy Pilgrim, by Laila Milevski. Today is the comic review of that book, and later this week we will have two interviews. The first interview is with Laila about Enter, Holy Pilgrim. The second interview is with Kevin Czap and L. Nichols…
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Quick Picks #7: Pence, Blomerth, and Booger
Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of mini comics reviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of zines I’ve been reading recently. Nul is one of a recent batch of mini kuš! and a striking story of obsession and radicalization. An unnamed main character documents his obsession…
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Comics Kickstarter Feature – klub zin #2 “the other one”
Yesterday I featured Warmer, a comics poetry anthology on Kickstarter, edited by Madeleine Witt and Andrew White. Warmer is doing well and looks like it’s well on its way to funding. Another Kickstarter anthology that I’m interested in could use a little help. The anthology is klub zin #2, “the other one.” Klub zin #1,…
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Comics Kickstarter Feature – Warmer, ed. by Madeliene Witt and Andrew White
When Sequential State was a younger project, I tried a lot of different features and formats to talk about comics that I thought were interesting. As the project grew, I moved deeper and deeper into criticism. It’s something I’m comfortable with. I have been reviewing comics for nearly 10 years now. But I left a…
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Comic Review – Steam Clean by Laura Ķeniņš
The first round of books from Retrofit’s 2017 Kickstarter campaign made it to me this week. I immediately dug in to Laura Ķeniņš’ graphic novel Steam Clean. My knowledge of Ķeniņš’ work comes from the kuš! comics mini she did, Alien Beings. Ķeniņš’ body of this work seems focused on interpersonal conflict; Steam Clean is no…
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Comic Review: HEDRA by Jesse Lonergan
Last year Jesse Lonergan sent me a copy of his comic HEDRA to take a look at. HEDRA is a 48-page science fiction comic printed on newspaper sheet. At first the comic puzzled me. Newsprint comics are both common and rare. It is common to see syndicated comics printed in the local newspaper. The funnies…
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Site Update
Hi everyone! There are some major changes going down at Sequential State. I thought I would take a quick moment to explain what’s been happening during the first week of June. I had the chance to do some long term planning for the site over the last 3 months. I’m making some big changes! I…
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Comic Review: T by Bailey Sharp
Up and coming cartoonist Bailey Sharp sent over a new comic to review in November last year and I just recently got around to reading it. This should tell you how far behind I am on my reading (it’s bad folks); the book was one of the comics included in Short Box #2, the international…
