Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

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  • Review: Dark Angels of Darkness by Al Gofa

    Review: Dark Angels of Darkness by Al Gofa

    Dark Angels of Darkness is a comic that’s been floating around my house for a few months now. I can’t seem to get it onto a shelf – that’s a good sign in my book-cluttered home. The comic is a recent release from Peow Press, and it’s a selection that falls well into their wheelhouse.…

  • Review: Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte

    Review: Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte

      The SPX pile is slowly getting smaller, and I’m starting in on some of the bigger books from the show. One of those is Linnea Sterte’s Stages of Rot from PEOW Studio. The book is 152 pages in full color, with french flaps and spot gloss. Sterte works mostly in cool pastel colors, and…

  • Comic Review: Dust Pam by Thu Tran

    Comic Review: Dust Pam by Thu Tran

    Dust Pam is the latest comic from the folks at Peow, and this one’s a doozy. It’s a compact 72 pages, printed in neon ink and perfect bound. The comic features a feline dustpan named Pam who works at Best Snacks Factory, some cleaning-supply friends, and a trio of irritating bugs that Pam desperately wants…

  • Review: Internal Affairs III by Patrick Crotty

    Review: Internal Affairs III by Patrick Crotty

    Review: Internal Affairs III by Patrick Crotty Another of PEOW! Studio’s Kickstarter comics, Patrick Crotty’s Internal Affairs III is a continuation of previous Internal Affairs comics published by PEOW!, but stands alone as a 192-page graphic novel. In it, the main character, Onion, is an unpaid intern at Banervelt AMCS, a major corp that uses mechs…

  • Review: Wrecked Hearts by Mathilde Kitteh & Luca Oliveri

    Review: Wrecked Hearts by Mathilde Kitteh & Luca Oliveri

    It’s become obvious that the demarcating lines between different comics traditions are blurry. It’s been that way for a while, but we are starting to see more interaction between the North American/European comics scene and the Japanese manga scene. More and more cartoonists who were introduced to manga and anime at a young age are now working on their…

  • Comics That Challenged Me in 2015: Part 6

    Happy Monday – today is the last day of my list; tomorrow the full list will go up for your complete review. Please send me an ASK or shoot me an email at sequentialstate _at_ gmail _dot_ com if you have any feedback. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |…

  • Review: The Nature of Nature by Disa Wallander Humanity has a strained relationship with the natural world. We marvel at its complexity and its beauty, but we are afraid of its wildness and its brutality. And for all that we understand about the natural world, there’s still more to learn. This quest for more information…

  • Review: Lemon & Ket by Natalie Andrewson We’re getting closer and closer to TCAF – expect a “to buy” list coming in the next few days or so. In the meantime, I’m trying to get my hands on books that premiered at MoCCA and won’t be readily available at the Canadian show. PEOW! Studio came…

  • Review: New Frontier #1: Third Wheel, by Hanna K The saddest thing about my TCAF trip was completely missing the PEOW! Studio booth. Hailing from Sweden, I missed a chance to get copies locally of their brand new books. When Zainab Akhtar (blog: Comics and Cola | tumblr: wellnotwisely) previewed the second issue of Náva,…