Alex Hoffman

Nov 18, 2024 | solrad.co | Nicholas Burman |Hank Kennedy |Hagai Palevsky |Alex Hoffman

The horror genre often draws on illness and disease as a thematic vein made (meta)physical through metaphor. See, for example, how Coppola, in his rendition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, draws attention to how the vampire trope is related to our concerns regarding diseases transmitted by blood. Maybe it is because an illness itself feels alien, so much like an invasion or attack upon our corporal sovereignty, that it is so pregnant with possibilities for those who produce horror.

Oct 30, 2024 | solrad.co | Alex Hoffman |Nicholas Burman |Emily Price

A woman (Guli) and a pomegranate (Anar) meet in an unfocused liminal space, tinged in hazy green. Have they been asleep forever or for just a second? Is this some heavenly plane, a common garden, or a vague purgatory? Are they old as time or newly created? They awake, confused. They ask each other with suspicion, “who are you?” but it’s clear that they already recognize each other.

Sep 23, 2024 | solrad.co | Nicholas Burman |Emily Price |Alex Hoffman

Editor’s Note: My Body Unspooling by Leo Fox Won the Outstanding Comic Award at SPX’s 2024 Ignatz AwardsLucille has a ghost-white body. His spirit is a spiked hood that throbs red. When it is not on his head you can see that Lucille has piercing red eyes. Lucille’s body is more masculine one panel, more feminine the next. He seems to be living in an undergrowth of patterns, where creatures of block colour run amongst hues of yellow and purple that bleed into each other.

Sep 2, 2024 | solrad.co | Pius Bak |Ian Cordingley |Alex Hoffman |Curtis Clow

Recently nominated for a Ringo award for Best Original Graphic Novel, Slightly Exaggerated is a fantasy adventure comic written by Curtis Clow and drawn by Pius Bak. Originally financed by a Kickstarter campaign (I was one of the backers), Slightly Exaggerated has been picked up by Dark Horse and published in paperback as of July 9, 2024. It is a story full of ambition, imagination, and more than a few holes.

Aug 12, 2024 | solrad.co | Alex Hoffman

This editorial is co-published alongside Rob Kirby’s review of Rescue Party, edited by Gabe Fowler, and published by Pantheon Books. It’s sometimes hard to remember specific details about the time during COVID-19 lockdown. I was an essential worker, so, for me, it largely felt the same as any other time, except with the unique requirements that I disrobe and disinfect myself in the garage prior to coming in the house.