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sequentialstatement: Episode #5: Our Ever-Changing Podcast Alex and Nick talk about the new Podcast format. Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: Airboy – art by Greg Hinkle, story by James RobinsonHuck #1 – art by Rafael Albuquerque, story by Mark MillarFante Bukowski by Noah Van Sciver All-New All-Different Avengers #1 – art by Mahmud Asrar, Adam…
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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…
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Episode234-1 sequentialstatement: Episode #4: Our Endless Numbered Days Alex and Nick talk about Halloween ComicsFest. Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: Ikebana by Yumi Sakugawa @yumisakugawa – Retrofit Comics @retrofitcomicsPaper Girls Issue #1 – Art by Cliff Chiang and Matt Wilson, Story by Brian K. Vaughan – ImageNot Funny, Ha Ha: A Handbook for Something…
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Review: Plain by Bailey Sharp
One of the subscriptions I got last year that I really enjoyed was the Minicomic of the Month Club. Like it says on the tin, you get a mini comic mailed to you every month. It’s a nice surprise letter in the mail when the new mini comes, and it’s an easy way to see…
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Quick Picks #4: Uncivilized
Happy Friday everyone! Quick Picks is a series of microreviews of books I’ve read in the past 2 weeks. These three quick reviews are of some recent minis from Uncivilized Press – an abbreviated set of these reviews was originally published in Selections #2, a comics review zine I publish. Uncivilized Books is a publisher…
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Review: Sea Urchin by Laura Knetzger
There are some comics you struggle with, not because you can’t find their strengths or their meaning, but because you can’t find the exact way to say what you want. Laura Knetzger’s Sea Urchin from Retrofit Comics is like that for me, and I’ve been working through my thoughts on this comic since I read…
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Review: mini kuš! #30 – Logbook, by Terhi Ekebom Finnish cartoonist Terhi Ekebom is one of the latest artists to work with Kuš komiksi’s mini kuš! project, each artist delivering a full color 4”x6” minicomic that clocks in at 24 pages. Ekebom’s comic is a somber and eerie vision of death and remembering. Within Logbook,…
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Episode20233-1 sequentialstatement: Episode #3: Call Me Norgal Alex and Nick talk about SPX and CXC. Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: Daredevil Vol. 5 Written by Mark Waid, art by Chris Samnee and colors by Matthew Wilson – Paolo Rivera and Javier Rodriguez BIO-WHALE by Ville Kallio from PEOW! Press Head Lopper #1 by Andrew…
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Review: Witches, Dragons, Magic, & Cats by Carey Pietsch
Witches, Dragons, Magic, & Cats is a collection of short stories by Carey Pietsch. This collection is a 32 page black and white comic with color cover pages. Pietsch has recently been working on the Adventure Time comic Marceline Gone Adrift, and while I have heard good things about the series (written by Meredith Gran), I’m…
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Transmissions from: SPX 2015
It’s a week out from SPX 2015 and I’ve had a chance to compile my thoughts from last weekend’s show. Overall, I had a wonderful time, probably the best time I’ve had at a comics show yet. Having a majority of the people you are interacting with staying at the same place is pretty unique…
