http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/52333/true-detective-and-breaking-the-hard-boiled-code/ http://sequart.org/magazine/52333/true-detective-and-breaking-the-hard-boiled-code/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:00:09 +0000 Melissa Milazzo http://sequart.org/?p=52333 Of all the genres used in True Detective, hard boiled detective fiction is the most easily recognizable. Detectives Marty Hart and Rust Cohle have front row seats to the graphic violence and systemic corruption in… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/50503/true-detective-explores-the-roots-and-branches-of-southern-gothic/ http://sequart.org/magazine/50503/true-detective-explores-the-roots-and-branches-of-southern-gothic/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:00:26 +0000 Melissa Milazzo http://sequart.org/?p=50503 Set on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, and filled with images of hurricane-wrought destruction, the first season of True Detective uses many Southern Gothic visual elements. Physical decay evokes themes of moral decay, which are… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/49199/true-detective-as-minotaur-myth/ http://sequart.org/magazine/49199/true-detective-as-minotaur-myth/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:00:44 +0000 Melissa Milazzo http://sequart.org/?p=49199 I recently binged all of HBO’s True Detective. Though not perfect, the show is gorgeous and full of enough mystery and symbolism to keep me puzzling over it long after I was finished watching. Nic… [more]]]> 0