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Expanded Version of Chris Claremont’s X-Men Now Available from Amazon Video, iTunes

Mike Phillips — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:00:20 +0000

Chris Claremont’s X-Men Now Available from Amazon Video, iTunes" title="Expanded Version of Chris Claremont’s X-Men Now Available from Amazon Video, iTunes" style="float:left;" />Originally clocking in at 42 minutes, Sequart Organization and Respect Films are proud to announce that a revised and expanded 70-minute version of Chris Claremont’s X-Men is now available on Amazon Video and iTunes! Chris Claremont… [more]

Chris Claremont and Documentary Filmmaking: An Interview with Patrick Meaney

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Wed, 21 May 2014 11:00:11 +0000

Sequart has a new documentary all about Chris Claremont. We sat down with director Patrick Meaney to talk about comics, filmmaking, and working with Claremont: SEQUART: A lot of the times documentaries get a critical… [more]

Dear X-Men… It’s Not You, It’s Me

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 19 May 2014 11:00:43 +0000

I’ve been putting off writing this column for a while now. When I first heard we were doing an X-Men week here at Sequart, I wasn’t too worried. After all, I’ve got a shelf full… [more]

Sequart Officially Releases Chris Claremont X-Men Documentary

Mike Phillips — Tue, 13 May 2014 14:00:09 +0000

Sequart Organization and Respect Films are proud to announce that our Chris Claremont X-Men documentary is now officially released, including on Vimeo and DVD. Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at… [more]

Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men Documentary to Premiere (for Free) at Columbia University, with Chris Claremont Q&A to Follow

Mike Phillips — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:00:30 +0000

Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men Documentary to Premiere (for Free) at Columbia University, with Chris Claremont Q&A to Follow" title="Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men Documentary to Premiere (for Free) at Columbia University, with Chris Claremont Q&A to Follow" style="float:left;" />Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, in conjunction with Columbia University, is proud to announce the (completely free-of-charge) film premiere of Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men, including a Q&A with Chris Claremont. On Monday, October… [more]

Sequart’s 2013 San Diego Comic-Con Panel

Mike Phillips — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:00:42 +0000

Sequart is proud to announce its 2013 San Diego Comic-Con panel, Sequart: Advancing Comics as Art. On Thursday, 18 July, from 1:30pm to 2:30pm in room 24ABC, the Sequart crew is going to show off new… [more]

Patrick Meaney: The Sequart Interview

Julian Darius — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:00:32 +0000

Patrick Meaney is the author of Our Sentence is Up, as well as essays in several Sequart anthologies and a contributor to Sequart.org. He’s also the director of Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods and Warren… [more]

Sharpening the Image: Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 4)

Forrest Helvie — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:00:47 +0000

Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 4)" title="Sharpening the Image: Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 4)" style="float:left;" />Part Four: Final Thoughts Youngblood delivered a hyper-realistic experience of explosions and Adonis and Venus like superhumans in extreme conditions making use of extreme powers. Unfortunately, the super-team failed to deliver a truly super-heroic experience.… [more]

Sharpening the Image: Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 3)

Forrest Helvie — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:00:17 +0000

Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 3)" title="Sharpening the Image: Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 3)" style="float:left;" />Part Three: When Pictures Aren’t Worth a Thousand Words Originally, I intended to split my focus on the interior art from the storyline itself. When considering the nature of the medium and the relationship of… [more]

Jason Aaron on Why Wolverine Endures

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:00:47 +0000

As a longtime writer of Wolverine both in Wolverine and the X-Men and the X-Men solo series, Jason Aaron knows the character well. But what is it that makes Wolverine such an enduring presence in… [more]

Sharpening the Image: Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 2)

Forrest Helvie — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:00:10 +0000

Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 2)" title="Sharpening the Image: Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood, the Man and the Comic that Started It All (Part 2)" style="float:left;" />While one certainly should not judge a book by its cover, applying this adage to the cover of a comic book can be problematic. For many readers, it is the cover art that captures the… [more]

Chris Claremont on the Original Plan for Maddy Pryor

Patrick Meaney — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:00:26 +0000

Chris Claremont’s run on X-Men / Uncanny X-Men was a milestone achievement for Marvel and super-hero comics in general, spanning seventeen years and hundreds of stories. One of Claremont’s more intriguing characters was Maddy Pryor… [more]

Sequart’s Chris Claremont Documentary Adds New Kickstarter Rewards

Mike Phillips — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:00:20 +0000

Sequart & Respect’s Chris Claremont Kickstarter campaign has entered its final days, and two exciting donation reward levels have been added: Would you like to ask Chris Claremont a question and have it possibly end… [more]

Why Chris Claremont’s X-Men?: A Look at Comics in Focus

Patrick Meaney — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:05 +0000

Comics in Focus" title="Why Chris Claremont’s X-Men?: A Look at Comics in Focus" style="float:left;" />Over the past two years, I’ve produced two feature length documentaries about iconic comic book writers, Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods and Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts. I’ve also thought a lot about what other stories… [more]

New Documentary Film: Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men

Julian Darius — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:48:21 +0000

Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men" title="New Documentary Film: Comics in Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men" style="float:left;" />Sequart and Respect Films are proud to announce a new documentary film, the first in a new series that will take advantage of new forms of distribution. A Kickstarter campaign has been created to help… [more]