Sequential

I'm a newcomer to Sequential, although it has already published four issues and has a fifth due shortly. I'm a fan of fanzines (I was a regular back in the days of A.C.E. Newsletter, Illustrated Comics Journal and various others; published my own, too, although P.B.O. was about books) and it's good see that comics still generate enough passion in people that they want to write about and share their experiences with them.

Sequential is chiefly an interview magazine, with interviews with both US and UK creators — although most of the UK creators are known for working in the US. John Higgins, David Lloyd and Sean Phillips fall into the latter category, although all three look back at past work for British publications (and his current digital publication in the case of Lloyd's Aces Weekly).

The four issues to hand include interviews / features with/on — #1: John Higgins, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, John-Michel Basquiat, Chip Kidd; #2: Ron Marz, Howard Chaykin, Milt Glaser; #3: David Lloyd, Sean Phillips; #4: Dan Mora.

There are supporting articles by Stephen Montgomery and Ron Harris that are interesting and fun in equal parts. Subjects range from Batman and "what I read during the Covid lockdown" to pocket libraries and Italian comic classic 'Saturno Contra la Terra'.

My only criticism is that they share a title with a magazine about independent Canadian comics, and finding information online just brings up a slew of links to that magazine and its website.

For more information there's a twitter page (@Sequentialzine) and an e-mail address (sequentialpublishing@gmail.com). You can buy copies via eBay with issues 2 and 3 still available in print editions.