http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/37332/the-best-of-millar-the-10-most-enjoyable-examples-of-mark-millar-work-for-uk-publishers-1989-1997/ http://sequart.org/magazine/37332/the-best-of-millar-the-10-most-enjoyable-examples-of-mark-millar-work-for-uk-publishers-1989-1997/#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:00:28 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=37332 As in last week’s “worst-of”, the following selections are presented in no order of preference; 1. Tales From Beyond Science: Long Distance Calls, with artist Rian Hughes, from 1992’s 2000AD #776. Just as I could… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/36884/our-war-is-fun-attitude-mark-millar-shameless-part-37/ http://sequart.org/magazine/36884/our-war-is-fun-attitude-mark-millar-shameless-part-37/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:00:54 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=36884 Continued from last week. Hindsight suggests that Canon Fodder marked the beginning of the end of Millar’s relationship with 2000AD. It was by no means the last of his scripts to appear in the comic,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/34056/wheres-canon-fodder-mark-millar-shameless-part-36/ http://sequart.org/magazine/34056/wheres-canon-fodder-mark-millar-shameless-part-36/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:00:31 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=34056 Continued from last week. Though pinpointing exactly when Millar stopped working for 2000AD is an difficult business, he’d most definitely moved onto the American market by the time Canon Fodder returned without him in 1996. With the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/32621/i-only-wanted-to-be-loved-mark-millar-shameless-part-35/ http://sequart.org/magazine/32621/i-only-wanted-to-be-loved-mark-millar-shameless-part-35/#comments Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:00:26 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=32621 Continued from two weeks ago. Canon Fodder reads as if two distinct stories had been awkwardly spliced together. In its first half, it’s the tale of how the Canon, Doctor Watson and Mycroft Holmes desperately combine… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/31498/keep-calm-wrap-this-up-quickly-mark-millar-shameless-part-34/ http://sequart.org/magazine/31498/keep-calm-wrap-this-up-quickly-mark-millar-shameless-part-34/#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:00:56 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=31498 Continued from last week. The world-building that Millar had begun to invest in Canon Fodder was unusually rich, distinctly quirky, and full of promise. Yet that surprising combination of Catholicism, Holmesian characters, alt-world SF and superheroes… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/30721/bones-gnawed-to-the-marrow-mark-millar-shameless-part-33/ http://sequart.org/magazine/30721/bones-gnawed-to-the-marrow-mark-millar-shameless-part-33/#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:00:19 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=30721 Continued from last week. “I had no idea what I was doing for the most part and just learning how to do very basic stuff then. Only good stuff I’d recommend would be Big Dave (which… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/29692/camp-as-christmas-but-good-as-gold-mark-millar-shameless-part-28/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29692/camp-as-christmas-but-good-as-gold-mark-millar-shameless-part-28/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:00:06 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=29692 Continued from last week. The debate about the attitudes expressed in Millar’s work towards LGBT issues is hardly a new one. Even as early as 1993, Monaghan’s pseudo-interview with Millar and Morrison in Comic World #18… [more]]]> 0