http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/59430/weird-worlds-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59430/weird-worlds-part-3/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2015 17:00:54 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=59430 Of the works that I am considering in this series of articles, Steve Gerber’s run on Captain America is by far the shortest. Weighing in at a scant 3 and three quarter issues, this truncated… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58618/weird-worlds-the-minor-mainstream-works-of-steve-gerber-part-2-%e2%80%93-mister-miracle/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58618/weird-worlds-the-minor-mainstream-works-of-steve-gerber-part-2-%e2%80%93-mister-miracle/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:00:25 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=58618 Though Jack Kirby’s Mister Miracle ostensibly ran for 6 years (1971-1977), the series produced only 25 issues. Between #18, Kirby’s final issue, and #19, there is a 3 year gap. It is a testament to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58364/weird-worlds-steve-gerber-part-1-dr-fate/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58364/weird-worlds-steve-gerber-part-1-dr-fate/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:00:39 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=58364 When I first started my comics blog in 2008, the first post I made was a brief obituary and tribute to Steve Gerber. I think it serves as a nice introduction to the project upon… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/49524/late-mythic-work-in-jack-kirbys-devil-dinosaur/ http://sequart.org/magazine/49524/late-mythic-work-in-jack-kirbys-devil-dinosaur/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:00:52 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=49524 To understand the reverence in which Jack Kirby is held by (much of) the comics culture, one need only look to the title of Mark Evanier’s biography of the artist, Kirby: King of Comics.  Or… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/44990/a-consideration-of-the-encyclopedic-comic-book/ http://sequart.org/magazine/44990/a-consideration-of-the-encyclopedic-comic-book/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:00:39 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=44990 When my son was much younger, we visited his classroom one evening, to meet his teachers and to see the work he had produced over the course of the year.  As he showed me around… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/38055/escaping-the-cage-martin-vaughn-james%e2%80%99s-the-cage-and-the-question-of-comics/ http://sequart.org/magazine/38055/escaping-the-cage-martin-vaughn-james%e2%80%99s-the-cage-and-the-question-of-comics/#comments Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:48 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=38055 In comics studies, there is a great interest in defining what exactly constitutes a comic. Scott McCloud famously begins his Understanding Comics by trying to define exactly what we can and what we cannot consider… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/28491/let-them-serve-as-signs-graphic-adaptations-of-christian-texts/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28491/let-them-serve-as-signs-graphic-adaptations-of-christian-texts/#comments Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:00:08 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=28491 In issue number 301 of The Comics Journal, there are articles critiquing two major spiritual works in the graphic tradition. One of these works is R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis, the other Dave Sim’s Cerebus. While the latter… [more]]]> 0