Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: November 2014

  • Review: Mutiny Bay by Antoine Cossé 2014 has been something of a breakout year for Breakdown Press. The London-based micropress has published an expansive slate of challenging and ambitious comics, including the work of Antoine Cossé. Mutiny Bay is a historical drama and a retelling of the 1520 Easter day mutiny on Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish-backed…

  • Review: Benson’s Cuckoos by Anouk Ricard Benson’s Cuckoos is my first encounter with the work of Anouk Ricard, a French cartoonist who is also the celebrated author of the Anna & Froga children’s books. Benson’s Cuckoos, despite sharing the same anthropomorphic characters and loose, blocky illustration style as Anna & Froga, sheds off much of…

  • Review: Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open by Akino Kondoh

    Review: Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open by Akino Kondoh

    It seems like it has been a whole lifetime ago, but once during the middle of the worst of the economic downturn, Top Shelf Comics put together a 400-page anthology of 10 years worth of alternate comics from the AX magazine. Akino Kondoh contributed two short stories for the anthology as well as its cover.…

  • Review: Monokuro Kinderbook In the early-to-mid 2000’s Kan Takahama was one of the key creators involved in the Nouvelle Manga movement that gathered Franco-Belgian and Japanese comics creators. The results of that movement have been published in part by Fanfare/Ponent Mon, and comics such as Japan as Viewed by 17 Creators as well as Sweet…

  • Linkblogging #4

    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 a message!…