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Excerpt from Sequart’s Book How to Analyze & Review Comics: Deep Dive Creator Interview: Jim Zub

Forrest Helvie — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 12:00:40 +0000

The following is an excerpt from Sequart’s book How to Analyze & Review Comics. For more information, including purchase options, click HERE. Students, journalists, and critics of all backgrounds can learn a great deal by understanding… [more]

Excerpt from Sequart’s Book How to Analyze & Review Comics: Underrepresentation, Stereotyping, Objectification, and Plot Devices: Female Characters in Superhero Comics

Carolyn Cocca — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:00:27 +0000

The following is an excerpt from Sequart’s book How to Analyze & Review Comics. For more information, including purchase options, click HERE. Female superhero characters have historically been much less numerous, much more often stereotyped,… [more]

Excerpt from Sequart’s Book How to Analyze & Review Comics: Comics and Context: The Questions That Must Be Asked

A. David Lewis — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 08:00:31 +0000

The following is an excerpt from Sequart’s book How to Analyze & Review Comics. For more information, including purchase options, click HERE. You have a blindspot. More literally, you likely have two, given a pair… [more]

Excerpt from Sequart’s Book How to Analyze & Review Comics: In Defense of Comics Criticism: Why We Need Analysis

Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 12:00:38 +0000

The following is an excerpt from Sequart’s book How to Analyze & Review Comics. For more information, including purchase options, click HERE. When you watch Penn & Teller do their particular brand of magic, it… [more]

Why I Am Not A Superhero Fan

Ian Dawe — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:00:07 +0000

I’m fairly open about my own tastes and predilections when it comes to comics, or any other medium. I’ll freely admit to anyone who cares to ask that, while I love comics, I’m not that… [more]

Five Reasons Why Comics Scholarship is Important

Stuart Warren — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:00:07 +0000

Before getting into comics, I had no idea where to start, or how to approach comics as a body of work. Over the course of several decades comics have diversified into a multi-headed beast. There… [more]

Dangerous Visions: The False Nostalgia of Tomorrowland

Emmet O'Cuana — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:00:00 +0000

Tomorrowland" title="Dangerous Visions: The False Nostalgia of Tomorrowland" style="float:left;" />SPOILERS FOR TOMORROWLAND Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland presents its audience with a choice. On the one hand there is pessimism – our world is wracked by wars, climate change and rapid overpopulation that could combined bring… [more]

Don’t Ignore the Art: Reviewing and Commenting on Comics, Part 1

Forrest Helvie — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:00:38 +0000

What’s the difference between a comic book and a novel? The answer seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? Yet, it still confounds me to no end that someone will take the time to write a review… [more]

On Interpreting The Killing Joke’s Ending (and Authorial Intent)

Julian Darius — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:00:05 +0000

The Killing Joke’s Ending (and Authorial Intent)" title="On Interpreting The Killing Joke’s Ending (and Authorial Intent)" style="float:left;" />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]

Colin Smith in Q Magazine

Julian Darius — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:00:08 +0000

Q Magazine" title="Colin Smith in Q Magazine" style="float:left;" />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]

Colin Smith on Comics Criticism, Part 2

Julian Darius — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:00:22 +0000

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]

Colin Smith on Comics Criticism

Julian Darius — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:00:08 +0000

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]