http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/53400/finding-comfort-and-joy-in-justice-league-this-christmas/ http://sequart.org/magazine/53400/finding-comfort-and-joy-in-justice-league-this-christmas/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2014 17:30:21 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=53400 Christmas episodes are generic now in the year of our Lord, two thousand and fourteen, but they are embedded in a larger history of seasonal programing that transcends mediums of all forms. Holiday festivals, derivative… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/51203/vampire-films-and-catholicism/ http://sequart.org/magazine/51203/vampire-films-and-catholicism/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:00:48 +0000 Marc DiPaolo http://sequart.org/?p=51203 The vampire movies that are the most likely to treat issues of theology and religion seriously are the Gothic melodramas and the art house pictures, while the films in the other categories are more interested… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/51215/black-jesus-love-thy-enemy-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/51215/black-jesus-love-thy-enemy-part-1/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:00:15 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=51215 “You better slow down Joe Brown. You know God’s love will get you f*cked up quick.” God’s love dominates Black Jesus as a recurring theme, but what it means exactly has yet to take shape… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/50881/black-jesus-episode-5/ http://sequart.org/magazine/50881/black-jesus-episode-5/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:00:55 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=50881 Boonie: Man, God ain’t good man. God sucks right now. Black Jesus: Oh negro of little faith, isn’t the miracle of the forgivin’ cholos enough proof to let yo’ disbelievin’ ass know that God want… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/50445/the-last-temptation-of-supe-christian-overtones-in-for-the-man-who-has-everything/ http://sequart.org/magazine/50445/the-last-temptation-of-supe-christian-overtones-in-for-the-man-who-has-everything/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:59:27 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=50445 On those rare occasions when I teach students about superhero comics, one question that always comes up is what defines a “hero”. Is, for example, a hero simply an individual who does heroic things? Or… [more]]]> 3 http://sequart.org/magazine/48718/the-american-superhero-comics-of-mark-millar-part-30/ http://sequart.org/magazine/48718/the-american-superhero-comics-of-mark-millar-part-30/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:00:40 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=48718 Continued from last week. But for all the carelessness and clumsiness of Millar’s scripts, his and Morrison’s Swamp Thing consistently displays a deliberate and serious moral purpose. Indeed, the comic persistently plays out two quite… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28491/let-them-serve-as-signs-graphic-adaptations-of-christian-texts/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28491/let-them-serve-as-signs-graphic-adaptations-of-christian-texts/#comments Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:00:08 +0000 Tom Miller http://sequart.org/?p=28491 In issue number 301 of The Comics Journal, there are articles critiquing two major spiritual works in the graphic tradition. One of these works is R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis, the other Dave Sim’s Cerebus. While the latter… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/22320/jesus-christ-superman/ http://sequart.org/magazine/22320/jesus-christ-superman/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:00:45 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=22320 The irony of Superman in the age of Postmodernism is that our world has no need for saviors. Often I find myself in the middle of arguments where I defend Superman to my peers as… [more]]]> 3