http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/61019/rasputin-10-the-river-of-life-and-death/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61019/rasputin-10-the-river-of-life-and-death/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:00:44 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=61019 As previously mentioned in our discussions of Rasputin, one of the more curious aspects of this historical figure is that we all know how he died. That’s the first and sometimes only thing we learn… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/60376/rasputin-9-the-big-payback/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60376/rasputin-9-the-big-payback/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:10 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=60376 It’s interesting, and a little jarring, that in issue #9 of Rasputin, having spent a great deal of time in the “present”, in America, we are thrust back into the thickets of Russian folklore and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59766/rasputin-8-a-cold-night/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59766/rasputin-8-a-cold-night/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:00:29 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=59766 When I was in high school, all of us history nerds (or nerds in general) knew one thing and one thing only about Rasputin: the way he was killed. For a young and growing boy,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59161/rasputin-7-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59161/rasputin-7-review/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:00:00 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=59161 “Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living” -Arthur C. Clarke That’s a very interesting maxim to apply to Grigori Rasputin, particularly in… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58578/rasputin-is-back-issue-6-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58578/rasputin-is-back-issue-6-review/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:00:39 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=58578 Rasputin returns for its sixth issue, following one of the most dramatic and unexpected jump-cuts in the history of comics that ended the previous issue. It isn’t as if this issue walks back those surprises… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/55726/rasputin-comes-to-an-end-of-sorts-in-issue-5/ http://sequart.org/magazine/55726/rasputin-comes-to-an-end-of-sorts-in-issue-5/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:00:47 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=55726 One of the questions with historical fantasy books like Rasputin or Manifest Destiny is how close they’re going to parallel the true recorded history. In the case of Manifest Destiny, they follow the general outlines… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/54624/rasputin-4-fear-and-dog-healing-in-moscow-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/54624/rasputin-4-fear-and-dog-healing-in-moscow-review/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2015 20:00:19 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=54624 Issue #4 of Rasputin is about essentially one moment, and one moment only. It’s the moment when fear transmutes into serenity. Rasputin has been poisoned, beaten and shot multiple times and even though in the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/53776/rah-rah-rasputin-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/53776/rah-rah-rasputin-review/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2015 21:00:53 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=53776 Ah, Rasputin. One of history’s great rock stars. And like a great rock star, he died before his time, leaving behind him enough blank spaces in his biography, with enough rumour and mythology, to attract… [more]]]> 0