http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/68134/a-long-brush-with-marvel-comics/ http://sequart.org/magazine/68134/a-long-brush-with-marvel-comics/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:00:16 +0000 Mark J. Hayman http://sequart.org/?p=68134 Whatever confluence of events, whatever set of circumstance that attaches a child to a thing, in this case to Marvel Comics, is within the purview of the brain people and magicians.  It interests me that… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/63768/super-karate-monkey-death-car-geoff-johns-and-the-dc-universe/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63768/super-karate-monkey-death-car-geoff-johns-and-the-dc-universe/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2016 20:00:40 +0000 Mark J. Hayman http://sequart.org/?p=63768 It’s true, pobody’s nerfect.  We live with our foibles and imperfections, our biases and misconceptions, and hope that they don’t cause too many problems for ourselves or those around us.  The human failing that most… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/63589/of-squirrels-and-girls/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63589/of-squirrels-and-girls/#comments Sun, 08 May 2016 20:30:13 +0000 Mark J. Hayman http://sequart.org/?p=63589 This exposes me to some risk, having to look over my shoulder for Steinbeck’s vengeful spirit, but that’s the life we choose in the thrilling, fast-paced world of sequential art criticism.  Not like music reviewers… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/63080/the-near-and-distant-horizon/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63080/the-near-and-distant-horizon/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:30:07 +0000 Mark J. Hayman http://sequart.org/?p=63080 Timeliness is next to prescience, or something like that.  Here I was preparing this screed when I chanced upon an article by a person who insists that the survival of comic books is dependent upon… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/62346/spotlight-on-star-trek-continues/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62346/spotlight-on-star-trek-continues/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2016 12:00:04 +0000 Mark J. Hayman http://sequart.org/?p=62346 There’s something you ought to know: Star Trek Lives! Not merely in the Rasputin-like, unkillable sense that it just won’t go away, no; rather, in the infinitely more appealing sense that the franchise torch continues… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/61677/my-very-brief-history-with-sf/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61677/my-very-brief-history-with-sf/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:00:49 +0000 Mark J. Hayman http://sequart.org/?p=61677 Speculative Fiction, more commonly referred to as “Science Fiction”, has been described as perhaps the best means of conveying complex ideas.  It is a broad genre that was, and for some remains pigeon-holed, like comic… [more]]]> 0