http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/62333/my-pick-for-the-best-comic-of-2015-invisible-republic/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62333/my-pick-for-the-best-comic-of-2015-invisible-republic/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:00:26 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=62333 “Beware the best-of list”, Shakespeare once wrote. Or he should have. There are deep problems with basing one’s opinion of the literature worth reading on one critic’s list of the “best” of the year, most… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/61474/smorgasbord-31-the-mad-machinations-of-mr-miller/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61474/smorgasbord-31-the-mad-machinations-of-mr-miller/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:00:47 +0000 Tom Shapira http://sequart.org/?p=61474 Tom and Shawn talk Hollywood as a new Crow movie is brought up, Captain America: Civil War gets its first trailer, and Iron Fist becomes a Schrodinger-like phenomenon. In actual comics talk, Frank Miller promises more Dark Knight… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/61246/8house-yorris-2-transgression/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61246/8house-yorris-2-transgression/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:00:56 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=61246 The main theme of Fil Barlow and Helen Maier’s arc “Yorris” for 8House appears to be transgression. Little Yorris rebelled against her culture by presuming to suggest that war isn’t automatically the answer to every… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/60576/8house-yorris-un-bound-imagination/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60576/8house-yorris-un-bound-imagination/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:30:26 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=60576 8House brings us yet another new world this week in the form of 8House: Yorris. For those keeping track, we’ve already seen Arclight (still a personal favourite) and Kiem, which featured some very arresting and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59834/8house-kiem-another-house-another-story/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59834/8house-kiem-another-house-another-story/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:00:38 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=59834 It’s fairly well established that Brandon Graham conceived of 8House as not just a connected series of stories, set in the same science fiction universe, but as a “label”, under which any number of stories… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59322/8house-arclight-2-rich-in-its-restraint/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59322/8house-arclight-2-rich-in-its-restraint/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:00:19 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=59322 We should start this review by revising, in retrospect, some of the assumptions and conclusions I made about 8House: Arclight #1. For one thing, as some have pointed out, I’m not entirely sure what the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58953/smorgasbord-22-spirited-away/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58953/smorgasbord-22-spirited-away/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:00:01 +0000 Tom Shapira http://sequart.org/?p=58953 It’s the pre-SDCC episode, so don’t expect any big news. Instead, Shawn and Tom find the time to talk about Warren Ellis’s new James Bond title, Dan Slott’s new Twitter war with Bleeding Cool, Dynamite… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58764/8house-arclight-1-graceful-and-dignified-fantasysci-fi/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58764/8house-arclight-1-graceful-and-dignified-fantasysci-fi/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:00:07 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=58764 It doesn’t take a great deal of exposition to build a completely original and engrossing science fiction/fantasy world, especially in comics. That principle is exemplified by the 8House series, the first story arc of which… [more]]]> 1