Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: archaia

  • Review: The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs by Celine Loup

    Review: The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs by Celine Loup

    I’ve never loved horror movies. I’m not interested in jump scares or splatter effects. But I love horror comics, often because they force their readers to re-examine the world and their assumptions of it. And that’s exactly what Celine Loup‘s graphic novella The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs does. Loup published a more…

  • Review: Waves by Ingrid Chabbert & Carole Maurel

    Review: Waves by Ingrid Chabbert & Carole Maurel

    It seems that there’s been an uptick in comics about the intimate period between conception and birth. Waves by Ingrid Chabbert and Carole Maurel is another of these, originally published as Écumes by Steinkis Editions in 2017. Archaia, the Boom! Studios imprint, published the English edition in May this year. The story this time around…