http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/10883/colin-smith-in-q-magazine/ http://sequart.org/magazine/10883/colin-smith-in-q-magazine/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:00:08 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=10883 The May 2012 issue of Q magazine debuts a new comics review column, written by none other than Colin Smith, Sequart friend and mainstay. And although Colin’s keen to emphasize that he’s hardly taken over the magazine,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2621/colin-smith-on-comics-criticism-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2621/colin-smith-on-comics-criticism-part-2/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:00:22 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2621 Continuing from part one, we now move on to discuss when it’s fair to criticize a work for depicting human rights violations such as torture and rape, writing personally, and comics culture. 6. When is… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2401/colin-smith-on-comics-culture-and-criticism/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2401/colin-smith-on-comics-culture-and-criticism/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:00:08 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2401 As a medium, comics are in a strange place. In many ways, we as comics scholars and advocates have achieved the respect we long sought. Hollywood is so full of big-budget comics-related movies that it’s… [more]]]> 4 http://sequart.org/magazine/2592/captain-britain-and-the-comforting-myths-of-englishness/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2592/captain-britain-and-the-comforting-myths-of-englishness/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:00:39 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=2592 In Paul Cornell’s Captain Britain and MI:13 #1, the eponymous Captain is killed by a Skrull missile during an alien invasion of Britain. As is the way of super-hero comics — and as was something of a habit… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2362/roundtable-on-current-super-hero-comics-the-problem-of-nostalgia-and-the-genres-future/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2362/roundtable-on-current-super-hero-comics-the-problem-of-nostalgia-and-the-genres-future/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:00:59 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2362 Depending on whom you ask, current super-hero comics are either sub-competent exercises in nostalgia or exciting, dynamic explorations of heroism, adapted for contemporary times. To explore this subject, I’ve invited Cody Walker, author of the… [more]]]> 0