Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: June 2017

  • Quick Picks #7: Pence, Blomerth, and Booger

    Quick Picks #7: Pence, Blomerth, and Booger

    Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of mini comics reviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of zines I’ve been reading recently.   Nul is one of a recent batch of mini kuš! and a striking story of obsession and radicalization. An unnamed main character documents his obsession…

  • Comics Kickstarter Feature – klub zin #2 “the other one”

    Comics Kickstarter Feature – klub zin #2 “the other one”

    Yesterday I featured Warmer, a comics poetry anthology on Kickstarter, edited by Madeleine Witt and Andrew White.  Warmer is doing well and looks like it’s well on its way to funding. Another Kickstarter anthology that I’m interested in could use a little help. The anthology is klub zin #2, “the other one.” Klub zin #1,…

  • Comics Kickstarter Feature – Warmer, ed. by Madeliene Witt and Andrew White

    Comics Kickstarter Feature – Warmer, ed. by Madeliene Witt and Andrew White

    When Sequential State was a younger project, I tried a lot of different features and formats to talk about comics that I thought were interesting. As the project grew, I moved deeper and deeper into criticism. It’s something I’m comfortable with. I have been reviewing comics for nearly 10 years now. But I left a…

  • Comic Review – Steam Clean by Laura Ķeniņš

    Comic Review – Steam Clean by Laura Ķeniņš

    The first round of books from Retrofit’s 2017 Kickstarter campaign made it to me this week. I immediately dug in to Laura Ķeniņš’ graphic novel Steam Clean. My knowledge of Ķeniņš’ work comes from the kuš! comics mini she did, Alien Beings. Ķeniņš’ body of this work seems focused on interpersonal conflict; Steam Clean is no…

  • Comic Review: HEDRA by Jesse Lonergan

    Comic Review: HEDRA by Jesse Lonergan

    Last year Jesse Lonergan sent me a copy of his comic HEDRA to take a look at. HEDRA is a 48-page science fiction comic printed on newspaper sheet. At first the comic puzzled me. Newsprint comics are both common and rare. It is common to see syndicated comics printed in the local newspaper. The funnies…

  • Site Update

    Hi everyone! There are some major changes going down at Sequential State. I thought I would take a quick moment to explain what’s been happening during the first week of June. I had the chance to do some long term planning for the site over the last 3 months. I’m making some big changes! I…