Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: November 2017

  • Close the Curtains: Transmissions from Genghis Con 2017

    Close the Curtains: Transmissions from Genghis Con 2017

    I’m recently back from Genghis Con, which is up in Cleveland Ohio. This is a small, independent alt comics show I get to go to every other year or so. The exhibitors mostly felt young and new. I didn’t recognize hardly any of the folks in the room, although a few familiar faces (Patrick Lay,…

  • Your Webcomic Isn’t a Good Book

    Your Webcomic Isn’t a Good Book

    I’ve been reading a lot of comics this month as I prepare for my “Comics That Challenged Me 2017” feature that will run at the end of December and the beginning of January. In an attempt to have a better rounded understanding of the publishing output of 2017, I’ve enlisted the help of the local…

  • Review: Shiner by Nathan Cowdry

    Review: Shiner by Nathan Cowdry

    Some folks on Twitter and Instagram post #mailday pictures, and I depending on the person, I follow those with great interest. I’m always excited to find something new I hadn’t seen before, and Nathan Cowdry’s Shiner showed up in a pile a few months ago, on a cartoonist’s feed. I thought the cover was interesting…

  • Review: NOW #1, edited by Eric Reynolds

    Review: NOW #1, edited by Eric Reynolds

    This article was originally published at Your Chicken Enemy. I’ve been waiting for the release of NOW #1 since it was announced in May. At the closure of Eric Reynold’s last anthology project, MOME, I was still reading manga and whatever shitty graphic novels were thrown my way by well-meaning college buddies. I hadn’t figured…