Since 2003, Charles Schneeflock Snow has been writing and drawing Sordid City Blues, which chronicles the lives of young urban adults faced with difficult questions of relationships and faith. Sacred and Sequential met with Mr. Snow in a comfortable corner of the Internet to discuss his work and his recent resumption of the series after a five-year hiatus.

Sacred and Sequential:  Thanks for talking with us, Charles. Let’s start with the most straightforward question: What motivated you to write Sordid City Blues?

Charles Schneeflock Snow: It’s an obsession. I worry about sex and religion a lot (both by themselves and in combination). Drawing comics is the main way I cope with things that worry me, so here we are.

S&S: What kind of response to your work do you get (or expect to get) from readers who identify as Christians? How might this response be said to differ from that of other audiences

Snow: Well, I know some Christians who like the comic, and identify with the characters’ lives. Which doesn’t differ too much from the response of more secular readers, honestly. But SCB doesn’t have much penetration into Christian culture – there’s a long list of doctrinal and moral prerequisites you need for that that I could never live up to.

Which is fine. I’d never want SCB to be a “Christian” comic. Christian is a fine noun, but a terrible adjective.

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