Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: December 2017

  • Review: What is Left, by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

    Review: What is Left, by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

    Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is a rising star of comics, and I’ve been following her work with great interest. She’s currently working on a graphic novel with Mariko Tamaki, and her early work from Talk Weird Press, If Only Once, If Only for a Little While, captivated me. Now she is back with a new mini-comic What…

  • Go, See, Buy? – Apartment Number Three

    Go, See, Buy? – Apartment Number Three

    As we wrap up the year, I wanted to plug Sequential State’s Patreon account. Below the cut line is a feature I run on the Patron for $1 patrons called Go, See, Buy?, featuring Apartment Number Three by Pascal Girard. If you want to skip ahead, feel free. I try not to talk about the…

  • Review: Tales from the Hyperverse by William Cardini

    Review: Tales from the Hyperverse by William Cardini

    Retrofit Comics sent out their final set of comics from their Spring 2017 collection this November, which included the hardcover Trumptrump from Warren Craghead and William Cardini’s latest,  Tales from the Hyperverse. Tales from the Hyperverse is a personal collection in Cardini’s strange, psychedelic sci-fi/fantasy universe. I previously reviewed his comic Vortex in 2015, and compared it…

  • Review: Golden Kamuy vol. 1 by Satoru Noda

    Review: Golden Kamuy vol. 1 by Satoru Noda

    The folks at Viz Media recently sent over some of their latest manga, and I’ve taken some time to read through a few new releases. One that’s been getting some hype is Golden Kamuy, a seinen manga set in the immediate aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War. An army veteran, Saichi Sugimoto, nicknamed “Immortal Sugimoto,” is…

  • Quick Picks #8 – Mágan, Martinez, Porcellino, Smoke Signal

    Quick Picks #8 – Mágan, Martinez, Porcellino, Smoke Signal

    Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of zines that have been on my mind recently: A Friend (mini-kuš #56) by Andrés Magán At this point in my life I feel like I shouldn’t be so surprised with the great talent…

  • Review: Bottled, by Chris Gooch

    Review: Bottled, by Chris Gooch

    Top Shelf has taken on some younger cartoonists and is publishing a few debuts this fall. One of these debut artists is Chris Gooch, a Melbourne-based cartoonist, whose first graphic novel Bottled broke ground at SPX this year. Gooch has been a fairly active zine maker and anthologist up to this point, and he was…

  • Review: It’s No Longer I That Liveth by Francisco Sousa Lobo

    Review: It’s No Longer I That Liveth by Francisco Sousa Lobo

    I occasionally have the chance to import comics from Europe, and a recent title by Portuguese cartoonist Francisco Sousa Lobo crossed my desk. It’s No Longer I That Liveth,  an 88 pager co-published by Chili Com Carne and Mundo Fantasma. It’s printed in yellow and black risograph, and perfect bound. The comic is about teenager Francisco…