http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/70057/superheroes-outsiders-and-chris-ware-jimmy-corrigan-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/70057/superheroes-outsiders-and-chris-ware-jimmy-corrigan-part-2/#comments Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:00:43 +0000 Jesse Berberich http://sequart.org/?p=70057 Previously, I explored the themes of Chris Ware’s landmark graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth — specifically the role and function of the superhero in this piece and even beyond in Ware’s… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/70025/superheroes-outsiders-and-chris-ware-jimmy-corrigan/ http://sequart.org/magazine/70025/superheroes-outsiders-and-chris-ware-jimmy-corrigan/#comments Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:52:59 +0000 Jesse Berberich http://sequart.org/?p=70025 Chris Ware’s seminal graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth is a masterwork wherein Ware chronicles the struggles of main character, Jimmy, as he navigates through life, eventually meeting his estranged father for… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58207/eating-brains-zombies-and-dystopianism/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58207/eating-brains-zombies-and-dystopianism/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2015 11:00:47 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=58207 In 2013 I was at SDCC meeting Julian Darius for the first time. After a long, harrowing comic-con experience we both went to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund after party. There were famous people… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/46558/unmasked-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46558/unmasked-review/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:59:55 +0000 Colby Pryor http://sequart.org/?p=46558 Unmasked (written by Christian Read with art by Emily Smith and Gary Chaloner) tells the story of a married couple living a seemingly normal live. However, they are in fact super-villains who have given up… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/10651/jimmy-corrigan-and-smartest-deconstruction-of-the-superhero-in-the-world/ http://sequart.org/magazine/10651/jimmy-corrigan-and-smartest-deconstruction-of-the-superhero-in-the-world/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:00:39 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=10651 When dealing with 20th-century novels, James Joyce’s Ulysses is arguably the most significant work in terms of its influence on writers who would follow in the modern and postmodern traditions. In like fashion, Chris Ware’s… [more]]]> 0