Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: TCJ

  • Update: New Review at TCJ

    Update: New Review at TCJ

    Hey there! It’s been a little on-again off-again here at Sequential State as I wrap up some bigger non-comics projects, but if you haven’t already seen it, I have a new review of Guillaume Singelin’s PTSD from First Second up over at The Comics Journal. I hope you check it out, but if not, it…

  • New Review of Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship on The Comics Journal

    New Review of Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship on The Comics Journal

    The title says it all – my first review for The Comics Journal was published this morning. The book is Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship. The book was originally published in France as Amitié Éternelle, and translated by Elizabeth Zuba for the small US-based publisher Siglio Press. In it, Durand uses official and personal photographs from Albanian state…

  • 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…