http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/22270/doctor-who-as-warden-in-the-50th-anniversary-prisoners-of-time-series/ http://sequart.org/magazine/22270/doctor-who-as-warden-in-the-50th-anniversary-prisoners-of-time-series/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:52 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=22270 IDW’s comic series “Prisoners of Time”, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Doctor, is a twelve-parter devised with an overarching plot to hold the tales of each respective regeneration of the Doctor in tandem. Meanwhile,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/22022/neil-gaiman-the-early-years-the-magicians-choice-in-the-books-of-magic/ http://sequart.org/magazine/22022/neil-gaiman-the-early-years-the-magicians-choice-in-the-books-of-magic/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 11:00:48 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=22022 The Books of Magic was published from 1990-1991, at a time when Sandman was underway and gathering steam but the Vertigo universe was still forming, and demarcations between Vertigo and the DC Universe had not… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/21376/neil-gaiman-the-early-years-black-orchid-part-2-gangsters-and-scientists/ http://sequart.org/magazine/21376/neil-gaiman-the-early-years-black-orchid-part-2-gangsters-and-scientists/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:00:18 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=21376 Continued from part 1. In the introduction to the first collected edition of Black Orchid, Neil Gaiman wrote, “I know that some people regard this writing as escapist fiction, but I think that tales of… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/21022/neil-gaiman-the-early-years-black-orchid%e2%80%99s-passive-and-impassive-universe-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/21022/neil-gaiman-the-early-years-black-orchid%e2%80%99s-passive-and-impassive-universe-part-1/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:00:10 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=21022 Neil Gaiman, like Alan Moore, is someone working in comics who seems to need no introduction. Their influence and impact is so pervasive that they’ve practically become a household name. But there’s a danger to… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/16255/meet-the-magus-10-the-magus-in-time-from-hell-part-ii/ http://sequart.org/magazine/16255/meet-the-magus-10-the-magus-in-time-from-hell-part-ii/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:00:27 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=16255 Alan Moore is still better known for his super-hero work than for his esoterically themed or experimental genre-breakers, but this may not always be the case. As he proceeds further in time from the creation… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/15694/meet-the-magus-9-gods-and-demons-from-hell-part-i/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15694/meet-the-magus-9-gods-and-demons-from-hell-part-i/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:00:36 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=15694 In subject matter, history, and art style, From Hell stands apart from other works written by Alan Moore, but that hasn’t made it obscure, rather notorious. If its Jack the Ripper subject matter was less… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/15091/meet-the-magus-part-8-transforming-perception-in-another-suburban-romance/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15091/meet-the-magus-part-8-transforming-perception-in-another-suburban-romance/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:00:46 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=15091 Quite a few of Moore’s works don’t merely feature transformative themes but display a capacity for transformation themselves. By taking on new forms, they lead what could be described as parallel or alternate lives. Works… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/14721/meet-the-magus-part-7-dualism-and-the-dark-side-in-batman-the-killing-joke/ http://sequart.org/magazine/14721/meet-the-magus-part-7-dualism-and-the-dark-side-in-batman-the-killing-joke/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:30:06 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=14721 For fans, many of the works that Alan Moore produced for DC carry the shadow of later acrimony between the author and publisher, regardless of whether Moore was unhappy with DC at the time he… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/14194/meet-the-magus-part-6-a-world-inside-outside-in-alan-moore-and-oscar-zarate%e2%80%99s-a-small-killing/ http://sequart.org/magazine/14194/meet-the-magus-part-6-a-world-inside-outside-in-alan-moore-and-oscar-zarate%e2%80%99s-a-small-killing/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:00:33 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=14194 Three years before Alan Moore announced his decision to become a magician and roughly four years before the performance event of The Birth Caul, he collaborated with Oscar Zarate on an unusual graphic novel. Its… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/13219/meet-the-magus-part-5-microcosm-macrocosm-and-magic-in-v-for-vendetta/ http://sequart.org/magazine/13219/meet-the-magus-part-5-microcosm-macrocosm-and-magic-in-v-for-vendetta/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:34 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=13219 V for Vendetta may well be Alan Moore’s most politically concerned work, and its sci-fi dystopian vision has a decidedly practical edge. No doubt it will be mined for decades to come by commentators looking… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/12973/meet-the-magus-part-4-phantasmagoria-and-the-occult-in-saga-of-the-swamp-thing/ http://sequart.org/magazine/12973/meet-the-magus-part-4-phantasmagoria-and-the-occult-in-saga-of-the-swamp-thing/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:00:18 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=12973 The most pertinent question to ask of ourselves at the outset of discussing fictional works by Moore that deal in some way with magic or even the occult is “what is the difference between a… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/12273/meet-the-magus-part-3-the-deep-green-jack-of-the-green-and-the-swamp-thing/ http://sequart.org/magazine/12273/meet-the-magus-part-3-the-deep-green-jack-of-the-green-and-the-swamp-thing/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:00:59 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=12273 Ten years before Alan Moore informed friends and family that he would be pursuing the path of a practicing magician, he began working for the megalithic American comics company DC on the production of The… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/11784/meet-the-magus-part-2-the-universal-dance-in-alan-moore-eddie-campbell-snakes-and-ladders/ http://sequart.org/magazine/11784/meet-the-magus-part-2-the-universal-dance-in-alan-moore-eddie-campbell-snakes-and-ladders/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:00:56 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=11784 When we discuss the relationship between Alan Moore’s artistic works and magic, clearly marked boundaries become, instead, borderlands of relationship. Taken out of context, a particular statement by Moore could easily refer to magic rather… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/11486/meet-the-magus-part-1-the-birth-caul/ http://sequart.org/magazine/11486/meet-the-magus-part-1-the-birth-caul/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 11:00:13 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=11486 Allow me to introduce you to a man you may have met before through his writing, art, or interviews. He has copious amounts of hair, lives in Northampton, UK, and while he has the reputation… [more]]]> 4