http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/53813/the-fountain-comic-book-many-roads-to-the-same-summit/ http://sequart.org/magazine/53813/the-fountain-comic-book-many-roads-to-the-same-summit/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:00:25 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=53813 The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky’s heartfelt sci fi masterwork, had a difficult road to the screen. This story is fairly well known: by 2002, he had written and designed the film, hired actors and started building… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/52204/colour-in-the-fountain-majestic-and-artful-sci-fi/ http://sequart.org/magazine/52204/colour-in-the-fountain-majestic-and-artful-sci-fi/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:00:11 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=52204 The Fountain, Darren Aronokfsky’s 2006 science fiction masterpiece, is a true piece of cinematic art. It deals with weighty themes of love, death and the meaning of life, and it does so with a carefully… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/41953/examining-the-two-acts-of-noah/ http://sequart.org/magazine/41953/examining-the-two-acts-of-noah/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:00:23 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=41953 Some major spoilers for a movie based on a 24,000-year-old portion of the Bible follow: The world in the first act of Noah is magical. It’s not just the Watchers, angels punished to serve their… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/41477/aronofksys-noah-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/41477/aronofksys-noah-review/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:00:53 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=41477 “NOAH!” “What?!” -Bill Cosby Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is a pretty intense comic book. That shouldn’t be too surprising to anyone familiar with his other work, particularly his films. But it bears repeating that, unlike the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/9919/frank-millers-year-one-screenplay/ http://sequart.org/magazine/9919/frank-millers-year-one-screenplay/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:00:52 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=9919 Late 2000 seems, by all accounts, to have been a turning point for the languishing Batman franchise. It was then that both Batman: DarKnight and the live-action Batman Beyond were cancelled, with Warner Bros. focusing… [more]]]> 4 http://sequart.org/magazine/9914/unproduced-attempts-to-film-batmans-origins/ http://sequart.org/magazine/9914/unproduced-attempts-to-film-batmans-origins/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:00:30 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=9914 Batman Begins was, in fact, preceded by other attempts to dramatize Batman’s origins, both on film and on television. In 1999, one production company proposed a weekly series about the boyhood of Bruce Wayne prior… [more]]]> 0