Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: Retrofit Comics

  • Review: Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open by Akino Kondoh

    Review: Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open by Akino Kondoh

    It seems like it has been a whole lifetime ago, but once during the middle of the worst of the economic downturn, Top Shelf Comics put together a 400-page anthology of 10 years worth of alternate comics from the AX magazine. Akino Kondoh contributed two short stories for the anthology as well as its cover.…

  • Review: Debbie’s Inferno by Anne Emond Anne Emond’s cartoons are relatively new to me – I found Anne’s work through comiques earlier this month while looking up tumblr blogs to follow. Emond’s comics are wry and introspective, often autobiographic in nature, discussing things that happen on the train and feeling like a slug. From that…

  • Review:  Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden

    Review:  Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden

    Although I’ve only received 2 books from my Retrofit subscription (and therefore can’t judge the collected whole), the books I have received are very high quality books. If every book in the collection is as well put together as Number 1 and Wicked Chicken Queen, this will be an $80 well spent. I love how Sam dances on the…