The Collected Sequential by Paul Hornschemeier

The Collected Sequential Reviews

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  El

  I made the mistake of reading this a week after the same author's
  Mother, Come Home, and even though I had been warned that this was not of the same caliber, I went ahead and picked it up from the library anyway.
  
  This is a collection of Hornschemeier's primarily black-and-white comic strips from his earlier years. It's not fair to make comparisons to Mother, Come Home (since one is a collection of strips and one is an actual graphic novel), so I won't do that here.
  
  But I will say that this sort of comic work, similar to what I used to see in the Sunday paper (except much more adult in style and content), does not work very well for me. It's too brief. Give me more! I am insatiable! There are some in this collection that cover more ground, are clearly more autobiographical, and I did enjoy those a lot.
  
  Also, black-and-white. Sigh, yes, I need some color, especially for this sort of layout, there has to be color or else I want to flip through the pages as quickly as possible to just get through it.
  
  I still want to read more Hornschemeier because, again, Mother, Come Home is incredible and I want more like that.
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  Christian Lipski

  Indie comic, self-published for seven progressively more creative issues. Lots of variety, good look at the artist himself. More and more 'real'/autobiographical/depressing, but it's a shame it ended so soon.
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  J Chris Campbell

  Pretty amazing tour through the growth of an artist.
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  Mark

  A decent collection but I prefer the individual books to the one volume set. Somehow the Collected Sequential is missing bits and pieces from the noncollected books.
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  Ademption

  Juvenilia from Paul Hornschemeier. That said, it is impressive juvenilia.