Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Category: Features

  • Review: Weeping Flower Grows in Darkness by Kris Mukai I was delighted by Kris Mukai’s The Extremely Small Witch Bibi, Who Lives in Mrs. Sen’s Garden (my review of which you can find here), and I’ve been sitting on a copy of Mukai’s latest work, Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness (Weeping Flower hereon in) for…

  • Spreads: Fütchi Perf by Kevin Czap I recently received my copy of Kevin Czap’s new book, Fütchi Perf. I can’t be an unbiased reviewer of this book (I wrote a pull quote for the Czap Books webpage) and I won’t be writing a full review for Fütchi Perf. But I think that you, dear reader, will…

  • Review: mini kuš! #31 It’s Tuesday by Amanda Vähämäki I’m still working through Kuš! komiksi’s latest batch of minis, and one I’ve been mulling over recently is a comic by Finish cartoonist and illustrator Amanda Vähämäki. North American readers will recognize Vähämäki from The Bun Field, an 80 page comic published by Drawn & Quarterly…

  • An Open Apology

    Hi. If you are seeing this post, either on my website, or in your tumblr dashboard, you follow Sequential State, a website dedicated to thoughtful reviews of independently published comics, small press books, zines, and manga, as well as interviews of cartoonists and feature articles on various happenings in comics. Earlier today, I was confronted…

  • Review: Vacancy by Jen Lee I first came across Lee’s comics via the web and Lee’s animated web comic Thunderpaw; a remarkably expressive view of the post-apocalypse through the eyes of two dogs, in bright colors. Vacancy, a book that exists in the same shared universe with its own set of anthropomorphic animals is Lee’s first…

  • Guest Post: Fox’s New Fantastic Four Is Going to Fail – Thoughts on Ultimate Fantastic Four and the Fantastic Family

     My good friend and cohost of Sequential Statement sequentialstatement, Nick Dutro, has put together a piece about the newly debuting Fantastic Four movie that comes out today. I’m happy to have him on the site; as always, if you have an interest in writing a guest post for Sequential State, please contact me at sequentialstate…

  • Review: MOTHER #1, by Céline Loup Céline Loup’s comic HONEY #1 from 2013 made last year’s “Comics That Challenged Me” list for the way it made me interrogate my own privilege as a white man. Now Loup is back with a parallel story, MOTHER #1, a 28 page black and white comic with color cover.…

  • Sequential Statement, Episode #1: Introductions

    Sequential_Statement_Episode231-1 sequentialstatement: Episode #1: Introductions Alex and Nick introduce themselves; Alex tells a story about a comics reading at this year’s TCAF; Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: 8House: Arclight #1 – Illustrated by Marian Churchland, Written by Brandon Graham The Divine: Art by Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka, Written by Boaz Lavie They Are Not…

  • Short Hiatus

    Sequential State is going on a short hiatus; I’ll be recording the first episode of Sequential Statement – sequentialstatement – later this week, so don’t think I’m disappearing on you. I’ll be away around a week or so. Need to catch up on my reading and do a little relaxing before things ramp up again…

  • Review: Ley Lines #3 – Thank God I Am In Love by Cathy G. Johnson Earlier this week, I published an interview with Kevin Czap and L. Nichols, the publishers of the Ley Lines series. Thank God, I Am In Love by Cathy G. Johnson is the third issue of the quarterly publication, which engages…

  • Review: For as Long as it Rains by Zviane Part of the Pow Pow Press Kickstarter, For as Long as it Rains is one of the publisher’s first English offerings; it and a series of 5 other books were released for the first time in English at TCAF this year. For as Long as it…