Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: katie skelly

  • Interview: Katie Skelly on her new comic TONYA

    Last week I got the chance to chat with Katie Skelly over email about her newest comic, TONYA. Released through the digital content delivery site Gumroad, this book immediately caught my attention because of its protagonist – the infamous Tonya Harding. Katie and I talked about the conflict between Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, isolation and…

  • Review: In Clothes Called Fat (with emphasis on comparison to Kyoko Okazaki’s Pink)

    I wanted to take some time to discuss Moyoco Anno’s new comic In Clothes Called Fat late last year, and I’m finally getting around to it now. Recently, Katie Skelly wrote a thoughtful review of In Clothes Called Fat and compared it to Kyoko Okazaki’s Helter Skelter, a seminal josei manga of the 1990s. After having…

  • Review: Operation Margarine My first experience with Katie Skelly and her work was at the Contemporary Erotic Comics panel at TCAF 2014; Operation Margarine was a book that was on my radar for the show, but Skelly had already run out of copies by the end of the first day – a happy occurrence for…