Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: 2d cloud

  • Review: Perfect Hair by Tommi Parrish

    Review: Perfect Hair by Tommi Parrish

    Today I have the pleasure of publishing a review of Tommi Parrish’s Perfect Hair by noted small-press critic and art collector Shawn Starr. Shawn originally brought my attention to Tommi Parrish’s work, so I’m happy to have host some of his writing here on Sequential State. If you are interested in having your writing published on…

  • Review: Sound of Snow Falling by Maggie Umber

    Review: Sound of Snow Falling by Maggie Umber

      Maggie Umber is one of the unsung heroes of art comics. Her status as the assistant publisher at 2dcloud led to the expansion of an anthologies-based print collective to a significant force in alternative comics publishing. The micropress is a bustling, risk-taking enterprise that wouldn’t exist without Umber’s hard work. Over the course of…

  • Comics That Challenged Me in 2015: Part 5

    Welcome back to the latest Comics That Challenged Me in 2015 piece. I generally don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t see a lot of value to them, generally speaking. But with the recent controversies with the Angouleme Grand Prix, I was thinking about talented women cartoonists, and decided to make a resolution. My resolution…

  • Comics That Challenged Me in 2015: Part 4

    Happy Wednesday. Hope you’re having a wonderful new year. I don’t generally make too much fuss about a new year, but this year I wanted to try to resolve to write a little bit more frequently. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Complete…

  • Comics That Challenged Me in 2015: Part 2

    Another five entries off my list. We’ll take a short break on Friday for the latest episode of Sequential Statement, and then we’ll be back into the rest of the list next week. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Complete List Time Capsule…

  • Comics That Challenged Me in 2015: Part 1

    Comics That Challenged Me in 2015: Part 1  Last year I decided not to write a 2014 “Best Of” list. I think that decision was a good one for me. I generally dislike the idea that any one book can be the consensus pick of any given year when there is so much art being…

  • Microreview: Concupiscence by Vincent Stall One of 2dcloud‘s mini comics from their fall 2014 season, Concupiscence is seemingly slight. At only 8 pages, the book is easy to miss in a table full of other work. But Stall has created a blobby, vicious world where violence and sexual desire are magnets drawn to one another. A woman,…