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Review: Days Longer Than Long Pork Sausages by Gabriel Corbera Back in the days of dial-up internet, I played MUD (multi-user dungeon) games on my PC’s telnet console. These games were complex worlds built of nothing but words and the player’s imagination. Whether you were throwing magic missiles at rats to grind those early levels…
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Interview: Solomon Fletcher ‘It’s really important for me to show the people in my comics practicing consent, communicating, being safe and respecting each other–even when they make mistakes. ‘
One of my “new years resolutions” for Sequential State was to talk to more creators about their comics. Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to talk with Solomon Fletcher about their porn webcomic Goldy & the Bears, about sex positive education, and making video games. I’m happy to post the first in what hopefully…
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Review: Mimi and the Wolves, Acts I and II by Alabaster Late in 2014, Matt from Hic and Hoc sent over a bundle of recent comics, and it’s only now that I’m starting to get around to reading everything. The first step to solving a problem is admitting that you have one, so there it…
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Review: Rough Age by Max de Radiguès
Earlier last year I took some time to review Max de Radiguès Bastard #1 from Oily Comics. I liked the comic’s flow and Radiguès’ delicate line. Thankfully in 2014 we got a bit more of his work from One Percent Press, a collection of the 2009-2010 L’âge dur, translated as Rough Age. The comic has…
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Looking Forward: Sophie Goldstein’s The Oven Collected by AdHouse
Sophie Goldstein’s work has been on and off my radar over the past year – I still haven’t grabbed a copy of her Ignatz-winning House of Women, Part 1, but her comic The Good Wife caught my attention early last year with its over-saturated colors and its biting, brilliant uncomfortableness. The Oven is a 6 chapter sci-fi…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2014: Part 4
Officially it’s the new year, and this is the last installment of my list of comics that I read in 2014 that challenged me. As a reminder, comics on this list didn’t have to be written in 2014 to be included, but now that I’m looking at everything, it seems like almost everything has been.…
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A Year In Review: 2014
I started Sequential State in April of last year after 5 years of blogging at Manga Widget, a blog which I recently pulled down from WordPress. 2014 was a bit tumultuous, but as far as first years go, I think it was a fairly successful one for the website. Some quick metrics for the interested:…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2014: Part 3
Another week, another installment of my 2014 Books That Challenged Me List. I hope that everyone has had a wonderful holiday season thus far. It occurs to me now in composing the third piece of this list that I’ve read a lot of books this year. Something to the tune of 100-150, mini-comics and zines…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2014: Part 2
Last week was part 1 of this 4 part list; if you haven’t already had a look at it, there are some comics that I recommend. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Complete List One week closer to the end of the year, five more comics on the list. A lot of the December…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2014: Part 1
It’s December which means it’s time for anyone writing about comics to put together their “2014 Best Of” list. I’ve been thinking about the idea of crafting a best of list and what that means in a diverse and content rich medium like comics. The word “best” implies a finality even if the writer only…
