http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/60771/smorgasbord-29-the-once-and-future-eisner-award-winner/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60771/smorgasbord-29-the-once-and-future-eisner-award-winner/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:00:48 +0000 Tom Shapira http://sequart.org/?p=60771 Tom and Shawn grapple with the post NYCC landscape, including the Mighty Marvel Movie Shuffle, Dynamite’s women in fancy new duds, more 80s properties on their way to IDW (we saw it coming!), the possible… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58732/smorgasbord-21-summer-of-our-discontent/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58732/smorgasbord-21-summer-of-our-discontent/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:00:24 +0000 Tom Shapira http://sequart.org/?p=58732 This week on the Smorgasbord, Shawn and Tom welcome Dark Horse to Comixology (hope they survive the experience!), discuss the latest casting announcements for Doctor Strange, Chew, and Spider-Man, and go through the Previews for… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/45918/i-read-an-old-and-valuable-comic-and-liked-it/ http://sequart.org/magazine/45918/i-read-an-old-and-valuable-comic-and-liked-it/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:00:08 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=45918 I was recently reading my tattered paperback copy of Bester’s The Stars My Destination for a future article and happened to check on when this very beat-up book was released. It turns out that I… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/19132/renaissance-man-master-of-the-world-the-ditko-lee-doctor-strange/ http://sequart.org/magazine/19132/renaissance-man-master-of-the-world-the-ditko-lee-doctor-strange/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:00:19 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=19132 One recurrent criticism of Doctor Strange as a character is that he’s simply too powerful. A great many writers and fans alike have contended that comic book magic provides him with the tension-destroying ability to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/18861/you-just-haven%e2%80%99t-earned-it-yet-baby-on-what-made-doctor-strange-unique-the-penultimate-part/ http://sequart.org/magazine/18861/you-just-haven%e2%80%99t-earned-it-yet-baby-on-what-made-doctor-strange-unique-the-penultimate-part/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:00:31 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=18861 Why would the Ancient One wait until after Strange had confronted Dormammu before rewarding his triumphant student with “new powers”? Perhaps the physical and magical enfeeblement caused by the Dreaded One’s spell had left the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/18721/father-son-mentor-student-friends-on-doctor-strange-the-ancient-one-part-10/ http://sequart.org/magazine/18721/father-son-mentor-student-friends-on-doctor-strange-the-ancient-one-part-10/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:00:08 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=18721 It was the unprecedented degree of conflict, of course, which marked out the earliest Marvel superhero comics from their characteristically more polite, repressed competitors. No-one had ever produced the likes of Fantastic Four #1 before,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/18627/superhero-supporting-player-on-doctor-strange-the-ancient-one-part-9/ http://sequart.org/magazine/18627/superhero-supporting-player-on-doctor-strange-the-ancient-one-part-9/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:47 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=18627 In the years since Ditko and Lee stepped away from writing Doctor Strange, the Ancient One tended to be characterized in terms of, at best, his moral authority and, at worst, his physical decrepitude. Yet… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/18566/on-the-ancient-one-earth-greatest-super-hero-part-8/ http://sequart.org/magazine/18566/on-the-ancient-one-earth-greatest-super-hero-part-8/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:00:45 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=18566 Steve Ditko was often displeased with Stan Lee’s interpretation of his plots during the last few years in particular of their collaboration. Sadly, there seems to be no way of telling how the artist felt… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/18531/on-the-coyly-affectionate-doctor-strange-part-7/ http://sequart.org/magazine/18531/on-the-coyly-affectionate-doctor-strange-part-7/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:00:51 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=18531 It took almost two years of monthly adventures before Strange finally realized how tremendously fond he was of Clea. As if the relief of finally rescuing her from Dormammu’s banishment had cut through the magician’s… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/18326/on-the-romantically-disengaged-doctor-strange-part-6/ http://sequart.org/magazine/18326/on-the-romantically-disengaged-doctor-strange-part-6/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:00:22 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=18326 As with friendship, so with romance. Love, or at least lovelornness, tended to ground Marvel’s superheroes in a version of mundane reality that reflected the world-view of young boys just learning to recognise both longing… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/17858/on-the-entirely-uncomplaining-yet-distinctly-overworked-doctor-strange-part-5/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17858/on-the-entirely-uncomplaining-yet-distinctly-overworked-doctor-strange-part-5/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:00:09 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=17858 It seems hard not to believe that Strange was deliberately making himself and his mission known to the world in a somewhat indirect and yet undeniably insistent way. In doing so, he walked a careful… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/17833/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange-part-4/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17833/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange-part-4/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:42 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=17833 Even smiling at the literal-mindedness of the West was no little matter in the Marvel books of the period. To be a super-hero was to be a Cold Warrior, and it was taken for granted… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/17665/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17665/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange-part-3/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:00:12 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=17665 The Sorcerer’s Code committed Strange to the defense of the Earth, and it obliged him to place the welfare of humanity above that of any alien race. Yet the Code also seems to have set… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/17596/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17596/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange-part-2/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:00:26 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=17596 Having found his way to “India, land of mystic entanglement” in the hope of having the “Ancient One” heal his hands, the still entirely cynical Strange discovered that magic really did exist. Prior to that… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/17492/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17492/on-the-profoundly-rational-doctor-stephen-strange/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:00:04 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=17492 Who’d pitch a character such as Steve Ditko and Stan Lee’s Doctor Strange to one of the Big Two today? Sorcerers and magic simply don’t sell where the audience for the super-hero comic’s concerned. Decades… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28227/spider-sense-tingling/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28227/spider-sense-tingling/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:36:26 +0000 Michael Rutschky http://sequart.org/?p=28227 It’s a small buzzing in the base of the skull that warns Peter Parker of danger yet to happen — Spider-Man’s spider-sense, originally discovered by the Chameleon as he was sending a message to Spider-Man… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/27720/crossgen-austen-2099-more/ http://sequart.org/magazine/27720/crossgen-austen-2099-more/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:44:05 +0000 Mike Phillips http://sequart.org/?p=27720 The Final Chapter? If you didn’t see this coming then I have taught you nothing. It’s no surprise that CrossGen has filed for bankruptcy. The company’s debt has risen to around $3.5 million and that… [more]]]> 0