Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Month: May 2018

  • Review: Skin to Skin by Jia Sung

    Review: Skin to Skin by Jia Sung

    The new Ley Lines books from Czap Books and Grindstone Press are starting to come out, and Jia Sung’s Skin to Skin is the first release of 2018. Jia Sung is a name I associate with Guernica Magazine – her illustrations for that website have always struck me as being simultaneously fragile and fierce. Drawing…

  • Five Recommendations for TCAF 2018

    Five Recommendations for TCAF 2018

    Hi everyone! The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is this Mother’s Day weekend, and is one of the headlining comics shows of the spring season. I’m a little down on comics shows right now, but there are great comics debuting at the festival by some of my favorite cartoonists. But one of the joys of…

  • Review: A Cat on the Chair by Heo Jiyoung

    Review: A Cat on the Chair by Heo Jiyoung

      I occasionally have the opportunity to import comics from around the world. Generally I’ve had more success with cartoonists and shops based in Europe, but I recently got a few new books from South Korea, which is a first. One of the comics I was immediately drawn to was from the SSE Project. The…