Sequential State – the comics criticism archive of Alex Hoffman

Tag: Vertical Inc.

  • Review: To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts, vol. 1, by Maybe There’s something intoxicating about dark fantasy. The most popular manga in the USA is Attack on Titan, a dark fantasy giant zombie title I haven’t kept up with (I did review the first volume a long time ago in another life, review forthcoming?).  To The…

  • Review: Pink, by Kyoko Okazaki In the summer and fall of 2013, Vertical Inc. published a selection of work by prominent women mangaka whose work defined a generation of further work. One of those artists was Kyoko Okazaki, whose minimalist design work and love of controversial subjects paved the way for mangaka like Asumiko Nakamura…