Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: July 2017

  • Comic Review: The Academic Hour by Keren Katz

    Comic Review: The Academic Hour by Keren Katz

    Secret Acres sent me a copy of The Academic Hour this summer. Katz’s work has been on my radar for some time; her comics have been in Ink Brick as well as Future Shock Zero. But The Academic Hour is my first experience with Katz’s work at length. Nominally, The Academic Hour is a love…

  • Interview: Kevin Czap and L Nichols on Ley Lines

    Interview: Kevin Czap and L Nichols on Ley Lines

    Hi readers. As part of this week’s Ley Lines coverage, I sat down with publishers and cartoonists L Nichols and Kevin Czap. Together as Grindstone Comics and Czap Books, they have been publishing Ley Lines since 2014. I did an interview with them in 2015 about the series, and I sat back down with them…

  • Interview: Laila Milevski, on Enter, Holy Pilgrim

    Interview: Laila Milevski, on Enter, Holy Pilgrim

    This week I’m featuring a recent release from Czap Books and Grindstone Press; Ley Lines #9, Enter, Holy Pilgrim. Yesterday we started with a review of the book; today I sit down to interview Laila Milevski, the creator, to talk about her inspiration and her thoughts about the creative process in working on a Ley…

  • Comic Review: Enter, Holy Pilgrim by Laila Milevski

    Comic Review: Enter, Holy Pilgrim by Laila Milevski

    This week I’m happy to present a series of articles focused on Enter, Holy Pilgrim, by Laila Milevski. Today is the comic review of that book, and later this week we will have two interviews. The first interview is with Laila about Enter, Holy Pilgrim. The second interview is with Kevin Czap and L. Nichols…