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Review: Apartment Hunting by Alison Wilgus
Alison Wilgus sent over a copy of her latest comic, Apartment Hunting, a full color 17 page fantasy comic book about Hanne, an apartment hunter in a fantasy world where apartments are giant boxy looking emu-like birds. Along for the ride is a young couple, Jokum and Vivi, who are using Hanne’s service to find…
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Review: mini kuš! #31 It’s Tuesday by Amanda Vähämäki I’m still working through Kuš! komiksi’s latest batch of minis, and one I’ve been mulling over recently is a comic by Finish cartoonist and illustrator Amanda Vähämäki. North American readers will recognize Vähämäki from The Bun Field, an 80 page comic published by Drawn & Quarterly…
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An Open Apology
Hi. If you are seeing this post, either on my website, or in your tumblr dashboard, you follow Sequential State, a website dedicated to thoughtful reviews of independently published comics, small press books, zines, and manga, as well as interviews of cartoonists and feature articles on various happenings in comics. Earlier today, I was confronted…
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Review: Vacancy by Jen Lee I first came across Lee’s comics via the web and Lee’s animated web comic Thunderpaw; a remarkably expressive view of the post-apocalypse through the eyes of two dogs, in bright colors. Vacancy, a book that exists in the same shared universe with its own set of anthropomorphic animals is Lee’s first…
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Guest Post: Fox’s New Fantastic Four Is Going to Fail – Thoughts on Ultimate Fantastic Four and the Fantastic Family
My good friend and cohost of Sequential Statement sequentialstatement, Nick Dutro, has put together a piece about the newly debuting Fantastic Four movie that comes out today. I’m happy to have him on the site; as always, if you have an interest in writing a guest post for Sequential State, please contact me at sequentialstate…
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Review: MOTHER #1, by Céline Loup Céline Loup’s comic HONEY #1 from 2013 made last year’s “Comics That Challenged Me” list for the way it made me interrogate my own privilege as a white man. Now Loup is back with a parallel story, MOTHER #1, a 28 page black and white comic with color cover.…
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Review: An Entity Observes All Things by Box Brown
An Entity Observes All Things is 152 pages of perfect bound science fiction short stories, some of which have been published previously as mini comics (including New Physics, a review of which you can find here). The collection uses a limited color palette; each story uses 3-4 tones, mostly block primary colors, with some lavender and fuchsia…
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Sequential Statement, Episode #1: Introductions
Sequential_Statement_Episode231-1 sequentialstatement: Episode #1: Introductions Alex and Nick introduce themselves; Alex tells a story about a comics reading at this year’s TCAF; Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: 8House: Arclight #1 – Illustrated by Marian Churchland, Written by Brandon Graham The Divine: Art by Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka, Written by Boaz Lavie They Are Not…
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Short Hiatus
Sequential State is going on a short hiatus; I’ll be recording the first episode of Sequential Statement – sequentialstatement – later this week, so don’t think I’m disappearing on you. I’ll be away around a week or so. Need to catch up on my reading and do a little relaxing before things ramp up again…
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Review: Ley Lines #3 – Thank God I Am In Love by Cathy G. Johnson Earlier this week, I published an interview with Kevin Czap and L. Nichols, the publishers of the Ley Lines series. Thank God, I Am In Love by Cathy G. Johnson is the third issue of the quarterly publication, which engages…
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Interview – Kevin Czap and L. Nichols on Ley Lines
You’ve probably seen me talkabout the Ley Lines series on Twitter. The series is copublished by Czap Books and Grindstone Comics, and the first issue by Annie Mok was on my 2014 Comics that Challenged Me list. Issue #3 by Cathy G. Johnson debuted at TCAF this year, and my review of that comic will go…
