Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: alt comics

  • Review: Cartoon Clouds by Joseph Remnant

    Review: Cartoon Clouds by Joseph Remnant

    Fantagraphics sent over a few new books in the Fall and I’ve been slowly working my way through them. One that I’ve been stewing over for a while is Joseph Remnant’s debut graphic novel, Cartoon Clouds. Remnant did the illustration work for Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland, and is  anthologized in NOW #2. Cartoon Clouds is a…

  • Review: Trying Not To Notice by Will Dinski

    Review: Trying Not To Notice by Will Dinski

    Trying Not To Notice is one of the final books to come out of 2dcloud’s Spring Collection and my first encounter with cartoonist and illustrator Will Dinski in long form. I read An Honest Performance in 2015, which was noticeable for its strong line and a sense that marks on the page were more instinctual than placed. Now Dinski…

  • Review:  Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia I’ve been mulling over Liz Suburbia’s recently released graphic novel published by Fantagraphics. A big softcover book, 312 pages of black and white comics, Sacred Heart is the kind of book you could hurt someone with if you had to. The root of the story is the tangled web…