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There’s been a great conversation regarding the work of Mike Dawson this week, somewhat self-inflicted. Dawson posted some honest to god numbers about the number of books he has sold and talked really frankly about his work and his audience. I honestly didn’t know anything about Mike’s work until earlier this year, when I bought…
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Review: How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis I’ve been eagerly anticipating the first collection of Eleanor Davis’ work since I stumbled upon her illustration work for Google and the New York Times. Still being fairly new to the indie comics scene, I hadn’t realized how much of her work was available online or in…
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Review: Nu #1, by Sacha Goerg
I’m slowly but surely getting caught up on purchases from the past 3 months, and part of the catch up game is digging into snakeoily’s Summer 2014 subscription bundle. This set comes with three 5″X7″ comics, one of which is Nu #1 by Sacha Goerg . The Oily Comics edition has compiled the first three minis…
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Review: CS by Inés Estrada I’ve spent the past few weeks pushing through a backlog of books that I’ve been slowly accumulating since TCAF, and I wanted to step away from that a bit to focus on some of the small press things I’ve been reading recently. A recent acquisition is Inés Estrada’s new comic…
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Review: TERRA FORMARS by Yu Sasuga and Keni-ichi Tachibana It’s been a while since I read an honest-to-goodness seinen manga. This weekend was a quick comics refresher – I was at a conference all week, and when I wasn’t learning, going to meetings, or eating at Waffle House, I was reading comics. On the stack…
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Review: Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley This may be a partial heresy, but I’ll be as up-front and as honest as I can: I’ve read 1 volume of Scott Pilgrim, own the rest, and haven’t finished them. I never saw the movie. So, despite knowing about O’Malley’s work, I haven’t really been immersed in it…
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Review: The Wrenchies, by Farel Dalrymple Last week was a surprisingly great week for new comics. Books like Terraformars, Through the Woods, and Seconds all were published to great fanfare. But the book that came out last week that I read first was Farel Dalrymple’s The Wrenchies. I was expecting it to be out around…
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Quick Picks #1: New Shojo #1s
Quick Picks is a new, occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of books I’ve been thinking about over the last two weeks. Say I Love You #1 by Kanae Hazuki After a hurtful betrayal as a small child, main character Mei withdraws from her…
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Linkblogging #2
Happy Monday! Linkblogging is a monthly “go look” feature on Sequential State that I’m using to feature fun comic things around the internet. There is a lot of great stuff to look at on the internet. The stuff featured is just the stuff I’ve been looking at lately. If I missed your thing, send me…
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Review: Young Avengers #1-12, 2005-2006 Edition by by Allan Heinberg, Jim Cheung, Andrea DiVito I’m not planning to do reviews of Big 2 comics very often, but because a really good friend of mine often loans me older comics, I’m reading Big 2 content from time to time. The 2005-2006 run of Young Avengers occurs somewhere…
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Review: Blindsprings by Kadi Fedoruk, pages 1-71: Blindsprings is a webcomic that updates two times weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays; it features a princess named Tamaura who made a contract with ancient spirits to serve them in order to protect her sister. When a rogue mage pulls her from her woods and breaks her contract, she…
