http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/61691/thatcherism-in-the-space-era-courtesy-of-grant-morrison-rian-hughes/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61691/thatcherism-in-the-space-era-courtesy-of-grant-morrison-rian-hughes/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2015 20:00:48 +0000 Arcadio Bolanos http://sequart.org/?p=61691 “Dare to look to the future”. Because we remember the past and we live in the present, we hold dear the future. We never know what tomorrow might bring and we love dreaming about adventures… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/21727/the-optimism-of-colonel-daniel-dare-part-2-of-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/21727/the-optimism-of-colonel-daniel-dare-part-2-of-2/#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 17:00:32 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=21727 Continued from earlier today. Hampson released more than just a little of that accumulated despair and tension as Eagle moved into its second calender-month of publication.With a modest smile and the characteristic arcing of a… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/21712/anxiety-optimism-in-frank-hampson-dan-dare/ http://sequart.org/magazine/21712/anxiety-optimism-in-frank-hampson-dan-dare/#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 11:00:20 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=21712 There are very dark things going on here. From the perspective of 2012, it can be hard to grasp just how challengingly bleak the set-up of the first month of Frank Hampson’s Dan Dare was.… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/11267/dan-dare-by-garth-ennis-and-gary-erskine-2008/ http://sequart.org/magazine/11267/dan-dare-by-garth-ennis-and-gary-erskine-2008/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:00:04 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=11267 Dan Dare is ancient comics history now. His decade was the Fifties. First appearing as the cover star of the inaugural edition of the weekly Eagle comic on 14th April of 1950, Dare’s heyday was… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2591/dan-dare-and-the-seductive-myths-of-englishness/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2591/dan-dare-and-the-seductive-myths-of-englishness/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:00:31 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=2591 In the very first Dan Dare adventure, which began to be serialised weekly in the Christian boy’s comic Eagle in 1950, we’re introduced to the ”Inter Planet Space Fleet some years in the future.” It’s an odd… [more]]]> 3