Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: April 2016

  • Interview: Andy Barron

    Andy Barron is a cartoonist and illustrator based in London. Barron will be attending TCAF this year with a collection of his self-published, small run series of Om comics called Mantra. The series features a doughy main character Om in a surreal world full of dangerous creatures ready to eat him for dinner. I sat…

  • Review: Trashed by Derf Backderf One of 2015’s bigger graphic novel releases was Derf Backderf’s Trashed, an ode to the work of being a trash collector. This thick graphic novel tells the story of a college drop-out trying to figure out what to do with his life after leaving school, and ends up on the…

  • Review: Nanjing: the Burning City, by Ethan Young Part of my goal this Winter was to read books published in 2015 as a way to understand the publishing year. I’ve been slowly accomplishing this goal, and a recent read has been Ethan Young’s Nanjing: the Burning City, published in hardcover by Dark Horse. In this…

  • “I think I’m fighting my natural tendency towards austerity” – An Interview with Sophie Goldstein

    Sophie Goldstein is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Sophie’s most recent graphic novel The Oven was published by AdHouse Books, and was met with critical acclaim. You can see my review of The Oven here. House of Women is Goldstein’s ongoing comics project, and the second volume debuted at SPX in 2015.…

  • Review: End of a Fence by Roman Muradov End of a Fence is a pair of firsts; it is @kushkomikss‘ first book in the kuš! mono series, a longform work from a publisher that has traditionally focused on its international comics anthology s! and its mini kuš! comics. It’s also the first fully digital work of…

  • sequentialstatement: Episode #9: Launching into SPACE Alex and Nick talk about the upcoming SPACE comics convention in Columbus, OH, where Nick will be tabling with artist Patrick Lay for their comic Multi-. Reviews of: Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt Faith #1 by Jody Houser, Francis Portela, and Marguerite Sauvage New Construction:…