Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

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  • 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: 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.…

  • Comics That Challenged Me in 2014: Part 4

    Officially it’s the new year, and this is the last installment of my list of comics that I read in 2014 that challenged me. As a reminder, comics on this list didn’t have to be written in 2014 to be included, but now that I’m looking at everything, it seems like almost everything has been.…