Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: October 2015

  • Quick Picks #4: Uncivilized

    Happy Friday everyone! Quick Picks is a series of microreviews of books I’ve read in the past 2 weeks. These three quick reviews are of some recent minis from Uncivilized Press​ – an abbreviated set of these reviews was originally published in Selections #2, a comics review zine I publish. Uncivilized Books is a publisher…

  • Review: Sea Urchin by Laura Knetzger

    Review: Sea Urchin by Laura Knetzger

      There are some comics you struggle with, not because you can’t find their strengths or their meaning, but because you can’t find the exact way to say what you want. Laura Knetzger’s Sea Urchin from Retrofit Comics is like that for me, and I’ve been working through my thoughts on this comic since I read…

  • Review: mini kuš! #30 – Logbook, by Terhi Ekebom Finnish cartoonist Terhi Ekebom is one of the latest artists to work with Kuš komiksi’s mini kuš! project, each artist delivering a full color 4”x6” minicomic that clocks in at 24 pages. Ekebom’s comic is a somber and eerie vision of death and remembering. Within Logbook,…

  • Episode20233-1 sequentialstatement: Episode #3: Call Me Norgal Alex and Nick talk about SPX and CXC. Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: Daredevil Vol. 5 Written by Mark Waid, art by Chris Samnee and colors by Matthew Wilson – Paolo Rivera and Javier Rodriguez BIO-WHALE by Ville Kallio from PEOW! Press Head Lopper #1 by Andrew…