http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/69367/spotlight-on-alan-moore/ http://sequart.org/magazine/69367/spotlight-on-alan-moore/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2018 01:50:54 +0000 Mike Phillips http://sequart.org/?p=69367 Here at Sequart, we’ve published dozens of books and movies. Today, we thought we’d tell you about a couple that address comics legend Alan Moore. Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen, edited by Richard Bensam, examines Watchmen… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/29837/right-wrong-and-in-between-the-killing-joke/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29837/right-wrong-and-in-between-the-killing-joke/#comments Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:00:47 +0000 Will Brooker http://sequart.org/?p=29837 I don’t believe in right and wrong. That may sound strange, from a Batman fan; especially strange in the context of The Killing Joke, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s prestige-format, psychological and physical showdown between… [more]]]> 5 http://sequart.org/magazine/29540/on-interpreting-the-killing-jokes-ending-and-authorial-intent/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29540/on-interpreting-the-killing-jokes-ending-and-authorial-intent/#comments Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:00:05 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=29540 For his podcast Fatman on Batman, Kevin Smith interviewed Grant Morrison, and Grant talked about how Batman kills the Joker at the end of Batman: The Killing Joke. Grant makes a good argument, citing textual… [more]]]> 5 http://sequart.org/magazine/29542/julian-darius-on-the-killing-joke/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29542/julian-darius-on-the-killing-joke/#comments Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:00:11 +0000 Mike Phillips http://sequart.org/?p=29542 In this video, Julian Darius discusses his theory about what happens at the end of Batman: The Killing Joke. For more on Julian’s theory, check out the Bleeding Cool story on it. And of course, you… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/17031/announcing-sequarts-singles-program/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17031/announcing-sequarts-singles-program/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:00:50 +0000 Mike Phillips http://sequart.org/?p=17031 Sequart Research & Literacy Organization is proud to announce its new singles program with three new releases. Sequart singles are short books — under 100 pages. They’re bite-sized bunches of comics criticism, yet long enough… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/14721/meet-the-magus-part-7-dualism-and-the-dark-side-in-batman-the-killing-joke/ http://sequart.org/magazine/14721/meet-the-magus-part-7-dualism-and-the-dark-side-in-batman-the-killing-joke/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:30:06 +0000 Hannah Means-Shannon http://sequart.org/?p=14721 For fans, many of the works that Alan Moore produced for DC carry the shadow of later acrimony between the author and publisher, regardless of whether Moore was unhappy with DC at the time he… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/5449/adding-insult-to-injury/ http://sequart.org/magazine/5449/adding-insult-to-injury/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:43:45 +0000 Richard De Angelis http://sequart.org/?p=5449 As a comic book character, Batgirl only really took flight once she became permanently grounded.  It wasn’t until a vicious attack by the Joker put her in a wheelchair that Barbara Gordon—daughter of Gotham City… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/28648/the-evolution-of-a-uk-comic-fan/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28648/the-evolution-of-a-uk-comic-fan/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:15:13 +0000 Henry Northmore http://sequart.org/?p=28648 Over here in the UK, comics aren’t as enmeshed in our psyche as our US counterparts’. For us, comics all began with The Beano and Dandy, with Dennis the Menace (not that one, ours was… [more]]]> 0