http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/67263/100-things-spider-man-fans-should-know/ http://sequart.org/magazine/67263/100-things-spider-man-fans-should-know/#comments Sat, 02 Sep 2017 12:00:07 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=67263 Editor’s Note: Sequart contributor and Spider-Man sage Mark Ginocchio has a new book out! Not shockingly, its focus is on the ol’ Web Head himself. Below is an excerpt from the book. If you like… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/30746/thor%e2%80%99s-early-identity-crisis/ http://sequart.org/magazine/30746/thor%e2%80%99s-early-identity-crisis/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:00:07 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=30746 Marvel’s introduction of Thor in Journey Into Mystery #83 (published in August 1962) ushered into the world a comic book character that transcended traditional superhero characteristics. Stan Lee, who created Thor, along with his brother… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/29804/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-%e2%80%93-walking-dead-37-48/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29804/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-%e2%80%93-walking-dead-37-48/#comments Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:00:08 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=29804 Since its initial introduction in Walking Dead #13, the prison has represented the ultimate sanctuary for Rick Grimes and his group of zombie apocalypse survivors: a shelter from the flesh-eating terrors of the outside world.… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/29329/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-walking-dead-25-36/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29329/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-walking-dead-25-36/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:00:29 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=29329 Since its onset, Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead comic book series has focused on the survival of one man, former police officer Rick Grimes, and the group of people he keeps company with. Starting with Walking… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/27784/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-%e2%80%93-walking-dead-20-24/ http://sequart.org/magazine/27784/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-%e2%80%93-walking-dead-20-24/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=27784 Walking Dead #20 opens with Rick Grimes and his group of survivors in unfamiliar territory. For the first time in the series’ short history, the group has emerged victorious when faced with circumstances that threatened… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/27376/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-%e2%80%93-walking-dead-13-19/ http://sequart.org/magazine/27376/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-%e2%80%93-walking-dead-13-19/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:00:38 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=27376 The “prison saga” is one of the longest-running and commercially successful arcs in Walking Dead history, and also captures better than any other storyline to date how the “garden and wilderness” theme is unique to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/25778/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-walking-dead-7-12/ http://sequart.org/magazine/25778/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-walking-dead-7-12/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:00:57 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=25778 The second arc of Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead follows Rick Grimes and his group of survivors dealing with the ramifications of being forced from the sanctuary of their roadside camp site and back into the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/24344/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-walking-dead-1-6/ http://sequart.org/magazine/24344/the-garden-and-the-wilderness-walking-dead-1-6/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:00:26 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=24344 Image Comics’ monumentally successful ongoing series Walking Dead presents itself as a story of survival – specifically the survival of the comic’s protagonist, Rick Grimes, in an apocalyptic world that has been overrun by flesh-eating… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/23354/the-hero-moral-code/ http://sequart.org/magazine/23354/the-hero-moral-code/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:00:33 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=23354 For more than 50 years, Spider-Man has abided by one of the comic book world’s most famous mantras, “with great power comes great responsibility.” This saying was born from the moment when Spider-Man, aka his… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/21589/imperialistic-themes-in-the-galactus-triology/ http://sequart.org/magazine/21589/imperialistic-themes-in-the-galactus-triology/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 11:00:13 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=21589 The first appearance of the cosmic entity Galactus in Fantastic Four #48 in 1966 is marked by a simple, yet ominous declaration: “This planet [Earth] shall sustain me until it has been drained of all… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/21993/cosmic-existentialism-in-jim-starlin-warlock/ http://sequart.org/magazine/21993/cosmic-existentialism-in-jim-starlin-warlock/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:43 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=21993 In the 1970s, a brash set of Marvel writers and artists set out to transform the “House of Ideas” from a factory of radioactive superheroes to a new era of “cosmic” consciousness. These creators took… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/20233/superior-spider-man-memories/ http://sequart.org/magazine/20233/superior-spider-man-memories/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:00:49 +0000 Mark Ginocchio http://sequart.org/?p=20233 The premise of one of Marvel Now’s flagship titles, The Superior Spider-Man, may initially come across as a classic sci-fi plot: two characters having their minds magically “switched” to create fish-out-of-water scenarios. But within the… [more]]]> 0