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Update: New Review at TCJ

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments Guillaume Singelin, TCJ

Hey there! It’s been a little on-again off-again here at Sequential State as I wrap up some bigger non-comics projects,

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Review: Piero by Edmond Baudoin

March 25, 2019March 24, 2019 Alex Hoffman 1 Comment comics, edmond baudoin, memoir, memoir comics, new york review comics, piero, review

New York Review Comics has quietly become one of my favorite comics publishers over the last two years. At the

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Features Interviews 

Kickstarter Feature: Naked Body

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments interview, kickstarter, Kickstarter Feature, paradise systems, r. orion martin, woshibai

Brooklyn-based small press Paradise Systems has been publishing comics since 2017, with a focus on bringing work from the Chinese

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Review: An Invitation from a Crab by panpanya

January 25, 2019January 24, 2019 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments an invitation from a crab, comics, denpa, manga, panpanya, review

An Invitation from a Crab is a recent release from Denpa, a new manga publisher helmed by Ed Chavez. Chavez

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Comics That Challenged Me 

Comics That Challenged Me in 2018: The Complete List

January 11, 2019January 10, 2019 Alex Hoffman 4 Comments comics that challenged me, comics that challenged me in 2018

Individual Write-ups: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Full List Ley Lines #14: Skin to Skin – Jia Sung (Czap

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Comics That Challenged Me In 2018: Part 4

January 9, 2019January 11, 2019 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments anna haifisch, comics that challenged me, comics that challenged me in 2018, dognurse, extract, jake terrell, margot ferrick, perfectly acceptable press, summer carnage: a belair story, the lie and how we told it, the mouse glass, tommi parrish, walker tate

Welcome back, dear reader! Today is the last installment of The Comics That Challenged Me in 2018. I hope you

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Comics That Challenged Me in 2018: Part 3

January 7, 2019January 11, 2019 Alex Hoffman 3 Comments anouck durand, comics that challenged me in 2018, Entropy Editions, Erlend Peder Kvam, frontier, Justin Skarhus, kus, kus komiksi, Lauren Weinstein, Ron Regé, youth in decline

Welcome back, dear reader! Hopefully you’ve had a good weekend and are ready to jump back into the Comics that

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Comics That Challenged Me in 2018: Part 2

January 4, 2019January 11, 2019 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments alright, comics that challenged me, comics that challenged me in 2018, DRT, grip, haejin park, image comics, lale westvind, max baitinger, perfectly acceptable press, prism stalker, Qoberious #1, sloane leong

We’re back today with the second of four posts of the Comics That Challenged Me in 2018. What were your

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Comics That Challenged Me in 2018: Part 1

January 2, 2019January 11, 2019 Alex Hoffman 4 Comments 2dcloud, ancco, comics that challenged me, comics that challenged me in 2018, czap books, Drawn and Quarterly, eli howey, gloria rivera, grindstone comics, jia sung, paradise systems, yan cong

It’s been tradition at Sequential State to run a series of microreview articles at the beginning of each calendar year.

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Five Recommendations for TCAF 2018

May 11, 2018 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments jordan jackson, TCAF, TCAF 2018, Toronto Comics Arts Festival, wavering line, youth in decline

Hi everyone! The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) is this Mother’s Day weekend, and is one of the headlining comics

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New Review of Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship on The Comics Journal

March 14, 2018March 18, 2018 Alex Hoffman 0 Comments anouck durand, eternal friendship, siglio press, TCJ, the comics journal

The title says it all – my first review for The Comics Journal was published this morning. The book is

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