Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: February 2016

  • Review: Frontier #11 – BDSM by Eleanor Davis I’ve reviewed a few other Frontier monographs from Youth in Decline, either in my Comics That Challenged Me series or in long-form, and I’ve liked or loved many of them. But none of those comics have caused me to have such a quick and visceral reaction as…

  • sequentialstatement: Episode #8: First Second’s First 10 Alex and Nick talk about publishing comics, and want you to check out2dcloud’s Kickstarter project. Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: Vision (new series), written by Tom King, Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Colors by Jordie Bellaire Frontier #11: BDSM by Eleanor Davis Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland by Harvey…

  • Hey there! If you’re a fan of Sequential State, I want to take a little time today to point you towards 2dcloud’s ongoing Kickstarter project. I back a lot of Kickstarter projects, and I generally don’t talk about them too much on Sequential State. I’m making an exception for a recent campaign because @2dcloud is about…

  • Review: DEALING WITH WINTER zine, an anthology edited by Mickey Zacchilli Mickey Z. sent over a copy of DEALING WITH WINTER zine a new anthology from pricetapes edited by Zacchilli, with contributions by a lot of talented artists. The book is 47 pages, risographed single-tone (mostly burgundy, but also teal and purple) pages on an…

  • Review: Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger

    Review: Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger

    Girl in Dior was one of NBM Publishing’s Spring 2015 releases. Published in France by Dargaud in 2013 as Jeune Fille en Dior, the book inserts a fictional newspaper reporter turned model into the world of Christian Dior, the famous French designer who took the world by storm in the late 1940s and into the…

  • 2X2: Invisible Ink vs. CHICAGO

    I’ve been reading a lot of books published in 2015 as a way to “get under the hood” of the year’s publishing output. I’m specifically trying to push through books that appeared on the 2015 10th Annual Publishers Weekly Graphic Novel Critics Poll, which “infamously” nominated Scott McCloud’s dudder of a comic The Sculptor as Best…

  • Review: The Beauty Theorem by Beatrix Urkowitz

    Review: The Beauty Theorem by Beatrix Urkowitz

    One of my favorite comics from 2015 was Annie Mok and Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Swim Thru Fire, which was published on Hazlitt Magazine’s website. Under the guiding eye of Anshuman Iddamsetty, Hazlitt has cultivated an impressive portal for alternative comics art, one of the latest of these is Beatrix Urkowitz ’s new comic The Beauty Theorem.…

  • Critical Conversations: CM & Alex Hoffman Discuss The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf

    In October 2015, Macmillan released The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf. Translated from French, the book was a #1 French best-seller and is the first of what will eventually be a three part trilogy of memoirs by the French cartoonist. The Arab of the Future is a book that centers on a young…