Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: July 2016

  • Czap Books takes a big step: my thoughts and a short interview with the publisher

    Kickstarter is becoming more and more a part of alternative and independent publishing for comics. Anthologies and collections of webcomics have been running successful Kickstarter projects for some time now, and Iron Circus Comics in particular does a majority of its fundraising through Kickstarter. There is a recent trend, likely generated by the folks at…

  • Review: Fourteen Euros at Primark by Sarah Bowie Sarah Bowie recently sent over a copy of her new comic Fourteen Euros at Primark , which debuted at ELCAF this year. This is the first work I’ve seen from Bowie, who is an illustrator, cartoonist, and cofounder of The Comics Lab in Dublin. The storytelling of Fourteen Euros…

  • Comic Review: In The Sounds and Seas by Marnie Galloway

    I’ve known One Peace books as a manga and light novel publisher for some time – they did recent reprints of Crayon Shin-Chan and are bringing the popular yuri series Maria Holic back to print after the demise of TokyoPop and CMX. They recently sent over a copy of Marnie Galloway’s first graphic novel In…

  • Review: mini kus! #40 – 1944 by Hanneriina Moisseinen A few times each year, Kus, the Latvian comics publisher, puts out a collection of mini comics. These mini-kus are by creators from around the world, and I’ve reviewed a few of them over the past two years. And while many of those comics were good,…

  • Thoughts on My Hero Academia and Transcending Genre

    I just finished reading Nell Zink’s Mislaid, a family drama set in the 1960-1980s South. Long-listed for the National Book Award last year, it’s a novel so confident in its voice that it is at times, utterly transcendent. Zink’s Mislaid has an unmistakable clarity and strength, and it captured me as a reader. It is…