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Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is Now Free on YouTube

Mike Phillips — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 01:00:28 +0000

Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is Now Free on YouTube" title="Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is Now Free on YouTube" style="float:left;" />Sequart Organization and Respect Films are proud to announce that their feature-length documentary Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is now available for free on Sequart’s YouTube channel SequartTV. Grant Morrison is one of the most… [more]

Looking Glasses: Sexual Dangers and Curious Responses in Carroll’s Alice Books and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Part Two

Nikolai Fomich — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:00:10 +0000

Yet the Alice books do not celebrate our heroine’s change, as suggested by Alice’s several disturbing mirrorings with older women. Three of the four major women in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass… [more]

Looking Glasses: Sexual Dangers and Curious Responses in Carroll’s Alice Books and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Part One

Nikolai Fomich — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:00:24 +0000

The seminal Batman graphic novel Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, by writer Grant Morrison and artist Dave McKean, recontextualizes the themes and the motifs of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass… [more]

Tim Callahan on Grant Morrison: The Early Years

Mike Phillips — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:00:45 +0000

Grant Morrison: The Early Years" title="Tim Callahan on Grant Morrison: The Early Years" style="float:left;" />As part of its ongoing Patreon campaign, Sequart runs a Book / Movie of the Month Club. Patrons get a digital copy of a Sequart book or movie at the beginning of each month, and… [more]

Theorizing about the Joker in All Seriousness

Debarghya Sanyal — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:00:55 +0000

And it’s not that easy. One thing becomes clear as I go about snooping on the Man Who Laughs – you cannot quite ‘come to know’ the Joker. You can read about him, theorise all… [more]

Overcoming the Status Quo: Wonder Woman, Superheroes, and the American Criminal Justice System (Part 3)

Ian Boucher — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:00:17 +0000

In this three-part series, I explore where superheroes fit into popular conceptions of criminal justice in the United States, and the potential for Wonder Woman to help improve those conceptions. In Part 1, I looked… [more]

Overcoming the Status Quo: Wonder Woman, Superheroes, and the American Criminal Justice System

Ian Boucher — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:00:53 +0000

Romantic Reflections in “A Glass of Water”: Morrison and McKean Unplugged

Greg Carpenter — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:00:57 +0000

When you do research for a book, you often find yourself searching through the more obscure work of a writer or artist, naively hoping that between all the usual awkward experiments and routine exercises in… [more]

Grant Morrison: From the Asylum to the Star

Nicolas Labarre — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:41:16 +0000

Asylum to the Star" title="Grant Morrison: From the Asylum to the Star" style="float:left;" />Grant Morrison has been one of the three most influential writers working in mainstream comics over the last 20 years (the other two being Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman). Since Timothy Callahan has mostly devoted… [more]

Batman #668 and Agatha Christie

Timothy Callahan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:00:07 +0000

Batman #668 and Agatha Christie" title="Batman #668 and Agatha Christie" style="float:left;" />Batman #668, by Grant Morrison and J.H. Williams III, is an excellent comic book. As the second installment of the three-part “Club of Heroes” story, it expands the story both inwardly and outwardly, creating a… [more]

Comics Published on 21 May 2003

Matt Martin — Wed, 28 May 2003 14:45:57 +0000

Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1 DC Comics – Dan Slott (w); Ryan Sook (a) This is about the exact opposite of what I was expecting from this book. Your typical Batman-related mini-series is generally entertaining… [more]