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The Image Revolution: The Full Trailer for the Documentary Film

Patrick Meaney — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:40:32 +0000

The Image Revolution: The Full Trailer for the Documentary Film" title="The Image Revolution: The Full Trailer for the Documentary Film" style="float:left;" />Sequart has released a full trailer for its upcoming feature-length documentary, The Image Revolution. 20 years ago, the seven biggest superstars created their own company and changed an industry forever. From Spawn to The Walking… [more]

Grant Morrison on the 2012 Apocalypse

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:00:40 +0000

Well we’re still here. But for quite a while, Grant Morrison was, let’s say, fairly curious to see what was going to happen on December 21st, 2012. Here, in a 2009 interview for our documentary… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 4: “We are All UFOs”

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:00:18 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 4: “We are All UFOs”" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 4: “We are All UFOs”" style="float:left;" />At last, we reach the end of this great four part novel known as Flex Mentallo. The last issue clarifies a lot of what came before, and heralds the launch of a new “reconstructionist” super-hero… [more]

Dan Fraga on Getting Inked by Todd McFarlane

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:00:54 +0000

Dan Fraga has recently worked as the animation director of the The Ricky Gervais Show, but in the ’90s, he was an artist at Extreme Studios, working on titles like Supreme and Bloodstrike. Here, he discusses what it… [more]

Jason Aaron on Why Wolverine Endures

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:00:47 +0000

As a longtime writer of Wolverine both in Wolverine and the X-Men and the X-Men solo series, Jason Aaron knows the character well. But what is it that makes Wolverine such an enduring presence in… [more]

Rob Liefeld on Pouches

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:00:15 +0000

Rob Liefeld has long been a controversial figure in the comics industry. He’s been criticized for many reasons, one of them being his, what would some say, excessive use of pouches! What does Rob say… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 3: “Dig the Vacuum”

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:00:10 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 3: “Dig the Vacuum”" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 3: “Dig the Vacuum”" style="float:left;" />Issue 3 of Flex Mentallo brings us into the “dark age” of super-hero comics, starting with the Dark Knight parodying cover, which even features faux autographs from the creators. This quickly segues into a Watchmen… [more]

Scott Williams on His Working Relationship with Jim Lee

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:00:12 +0000

Scott Williams is one of the most acclaimed and in-demand inkers in comics, best known for his twenty years of collaboration with Jim Lee. Here, Scott discusses how he and Jim have worked together to… [more]

Rob Liefeld on Leaving Marvel Comics in the Early ’90s

Patrick Meaney — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:30:25 +0000

For the past twenty-five years, Rob Liefeld has been a best-selling and controversial comics creator. Here, he discusses working for Marvel Comics in the early ’90s and the changing corporate culture there that led him… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 2: “My Beautiful Head”

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:30:56 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 2: “My Beautiful Head”" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 2: “My Beautiful Head”" style="float:left;" />Each issue of Flex Mentallo is loosely aligned with an era of comics, and the second issue takes us into the Silver Age. The Silver Age was notable for crazy experimentation, often putting straight-arrow heroes,… [more]

Jim Valentino on the Potential of Comics

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:00:39 +0000

Jim Valentino is one of the founders of Image Comics and a pioneer in bringing new ideas and storytelling forms to the medium. Here, he discusses the potential of comics and the way that they… [more]

Captured Ghosts Excerpt: Warren Ellis on Planetary

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:00:41 +0000

Captured Ghosts Excerpt: Warren Ellis on Planetary" title="Captured Ghosts Excerpt: Warren Ellis on Planetary" style="float:left;" />Planetary is one of Warren Ellis’s most beloved and respected series. In this exclusive excerpt from Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, series creators Ellis and John Cassaday, as well as fans Joss Whedon and Kelly Sue… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 1

Patrick Meaney — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:30:58 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 1" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 1" style="float:left;" />The Invisibles is Grant Morrison’s definitive work about our world, the nexus of his philosophical worldview, simultaneously the source and culmination of his ideas about our universe. But there is another world, the super-hero world,… [more]

Stoya on Why Chicks are Gross

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:30:04 +0000

Stoya is an adult film star and model. She’s also a big fan of science fiction, including the works of Warren Ellis! In this clip from Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, she responds to the stereotype… [more]

Grant Morrison on Experimental Writing in Doom Patrol

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:00:12 +0000

Doom Patrol" title="Grant Morrison on Experimental Writing in Doom Patrol" style="float:left;" />Grant Morrison used a variety of experimental techniques during his surrealist run on Doom Patrol. He discusses them here in a clip from the special edition of Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, now available for… [more]

The First Five Minutes of Our Warren Ellis Documentary

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:30:28 +0000

Warren Ellis sees the future. He is a comic book writer and cyberpunk philosopher living on the edge of tomorrow. He speaks to a cult audience of artists, journalists, scientists, and fans who hail him… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Fantastic Four: 1234

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:40:01 +0000

Fantastic Four: 1234" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Fantastic Four: 1234" style="float:left;" />Fantastic Four: 1234 was written at the tail end of Morrison’s Day-Glo Years, during his brief period writing for Marvel in the early 2000s. Grant has spent the vast majority of his career writing for… [more]

Scott Porter on His Love of Image Comics

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:30:30 +0000

Scott Porter is best known as an actor from acclaimed series like Friday Night Lights and The Good Wife. But he’s also a big comics fan, particularly of Image Comics. On the black carpet for The… [more]

J.H. Williams III on Working on Seven Soldiers

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:00:37 +0000

Seven Soldiers" title="J.H. Williams III on Working on Seven Soldiers" style="float:left;" />Artist J.H. Williams III is one of the most innovative and acclaimed comics artists working today. Here, he discusses collaborating with writer Grant Morrison to build the unique visual style of his work on Seven… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: The Mystery Play

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:00:10 +0000

The Mystery Play" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: The Mystery Play" style="float:left;" />The Mystery Play is another short-form Morrison work from the “adult comics” era of the early ’90s. It feels decidedly removed from pretty much anything Morrison has done in the past fifteen years, as he… [more]

Warren Ellis on the Future Happening Everywhere

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:00:16 +0000

Warren Ellis has made a career of thinking about the future. Here, he discusses the ways that the future is happening all around us, even when we’re not aware of it.What Warren thinks about the… [more]

Jim Shooter on Breaking into Comics

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:30:44 +0000

Jim Shooter wrote DC’s Legion of Super-heroes in the 1970s. What they didn’t know was that he was only 13 years old at the time. Here, Jim Shooter discusses how he became one of the… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: St. Swithin’s Day

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:00:25 +0000

St. Swithin’s Day" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: St. Swithin’s Day" style="float:left;" />During the early ’90s, Grant Morrison was wrapping up his acclaimed runs on Doom Patrol and Animal Man and moving away from mainstream super-heroics. It was a time when an increase in self-publishing heralded an… [more]

Robert Kirkman on Developing the Walking Dead TV Series

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:00:21 +0000

Walking Dead TV Series" title="Robert Kirkman on Developing the Walking Dead TV Series" style="float:left;" />The Walking Dead‘s 100th issue is poised to be one of the highest selling comics in years, its blockbuster success fueled by the record-breaking TV series. Looking at it now, the show seems like a… [more]

Chris Claremont on the Original Plan for Maddy Pryor

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:00:26 +0000

Chris Claremont’s run on X-Men / Uncanny X-Men was a milestone achievement for Marvel and super-hero comics in general, spanning seventeen years and hundreds of stories. One of Claremont’s more intriguing characters was Maddy Pryor… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Kill Your Boyfriend

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:00:24 +0000

Kill Your Boyfriend" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Kill Your Boyfriend" style="float:left;" />NOTE: Rather than start chronologically in the early ’90s, I chose to begin my exploration of Grant’s Day-Glo Years with a work that best exemplifies the themes, motifs, and energy of that era of his career: Kill… [more]

Nick Spencer on Comics vs. Creativity

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:00:50 +0000

Every Sunday, Sequart will be premiering an exclusive clip drawn from our extensive interviews with many of comics’ finest creators. These are previously unseen clips filmed during interviews for Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods, Warren… [more]

Grant Morrison: The Day-Glo Years

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:00:20 +0000

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years writing about Grant Morrison, talking about Grant Morrison, and making a film about Grant Morrison, and it’s now time to continue that work with… [more]

Why Chris Claremont’s X-Men?: A Look at Comics in Focus

Patrick Meaney — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:05 +0000

Comics in Focus" title="Why Chris Claremont’s X-Men?: A Look at Comics in Focus" style="float:left;" />Over the past two years, I’ve produced two feature length documentaries about iconic comic book writers, Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods and Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts. I’ve also thought a lot about what other stories… [more]

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #3

Patrick Meaney — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:00:44 +0000

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #3" title="Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #3" style="float:left;" />This was another busy week in the production of Captured Ghosts, with two shoot days and a bunch of editing.Over the course of the week, I cut the film down a bit more, removing some… [more]

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #2

Patrick Meaney — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:00:44 +0000

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #2" title="Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #2" style="float:left;" />This has been a busy week in the Captured Ghosts world. I was going to discuss the experience of filming with Warren, but I’m going to save that for next week and instead discuss our… [more]

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #1

Patrick Meaney — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #1" title="Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #1" style="float:left;" />Over the next six months, I’ll be overseeing the end of shooting, post-production and the release of the documentary Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, following in the tradition of last year’s Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods.… [more]

Kick-Ass: The Comic in Retrospect

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:00:02 +0000

Kick-Ass: The Comic in Retrospect" title="Kick-Ass: The Comic in Retrospect" style="float:left;" />The movie version of Kick-Ass received so much press attention that the comic can feel like a footnote. Because the movie was optioned and produced before the series was even complete, it’s easy to feel… [more]

Comics, Continuity, and Complexity

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:00:30 +0000

Recently, I caught up on Warren Ellis’s Nextwave and Geoff Johns’s recent Green Lantern run through Blackest Night. The two works are polar opposites in terms of approaches to comics; one a continuity-laden, multi-year saga… [more]