http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/28643/anniversary-blues/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28643/anniversary-blues/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:08:14 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28643 Up and down this year. We commemorated some anniversaries, added some others. Among the first, notably the publication of Einstein’s Specific at its centennial and Hiroshima + Nagasaki at their 60th. And among the second,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28637/abstract-empire-china-must-there-be-a-sandman/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28637/abstract-empire-china-must-there-be-a-sandman/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:04:48 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28637 I am being slightly humorous with the choice of title of course, but I wish to evoke the sense that the politics in this essay have been negotiated before, in a different context. The piece… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28630/the-use-of-genre-visions-of-the-incredible-hulk/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28630/the-use-of-genre-visions-of-the-incredible-hulk/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:56:39 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28630 Within the oeuvre of Jack Kirby, the Incredible Hulk arrives as one among many generic engagements with the monster archetype. The Hulk, a military-funded scientific experiment run amok, casts up specters of other works by… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28626/working-with-dirt/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28626/working-with-dirt/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:51:03 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28626 The following is an introduction to a comics short fiction meant to appear in the academic journal Arisa, published by the Center for Contemporary Islam at the University of Cape Town. The short story, “Rubble,”… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28620/retelling-the-telling/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28620/retelling-the-telling/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:45:06 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28620 It is a telling moment to be sure. One in which Peter Milligan neatly gives away the carefully-constructed game woven thus far and later in the Enigma. He writes of the titular character: He sits… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28614/exploration-becoming-history/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28614/exploration-becoming-history/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:38:43 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28614 2005 is at least significant on two fronts; it is the centennial of The Day the Rules Changed, of Albert Einstein’s Specific Theory of Relativity, also, it is the year in which Transformers: the Movie… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28608/old-worlds-for-new/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28608/old-worlds-for-new/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:36:48 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28608 What interests me most about comics is directly, the medium itself. I came to this realization by something of a hard road. Ad astra, per aspera.About fifteen years ago, I remember attempting the, even-now, Herculean… [more]]]> 0