http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/43759/grant-morrison-9-11-new-x-men-ambient-magnetic-fields/ http://sequart.org/magazine/43759/grant-morrison-9-11-new-x-men-ambient-magnetic-fields/#comments Sat, 24 May 2014 11:00:03 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=43759 Grant Morrison’s New X-Men debuted in 2001, about five months before 9/11. New X-Men came at an interesting time in American comics history. Marvel was being reinvigorated under Joe Quesada, radically upping its storytelling and… [more]]]> 13 http://sequart.org/magazine/23824/how-comics-work-the-fight-scene-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/23824/how-comics-work-the-fight-scene-part-1/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:00:03 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=23824 Most Superhero comics are based around two things: character-based drama and fight scenes. Many even forgo the former for the latter, under the horrible impression that they’re the same thing. This is in part due… [more]]]> 3 http://sequart.org/magazine/16434/grant-morrison-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-4-we-are-all-ufos/ http://sequart.org/magazine/16434/grant-morrison-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-4-we-are-all-ufos/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:00:18 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=16434 At last, we reach the end of this great four part novel known as Flex Mentallo. The last issue clarifies a lot of what came before, and heralds the launch of a new “reconstructionist” super-hero… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/15363/grant-morrison%e2%80%99s-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-part-3-%e2%80%9cdig-the-vacuum%e2%80%9d/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15363/grant-morrison%e2%80%99s-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-part-3-%e2%80%9cdig-the-vacuum%e2%80%9d/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:00:10 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=15363 Issue 3 of Flex Mentallo brings us into the “dark age” of super-hero comics, starting with the Dark Knight parodying cover, which even features faux autographs from the creators. This quickly segues into a Watchmen… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/15102/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-part-2-my-beautiful-head/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15102/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-part-2-my-beautiful-head/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:30:56 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=15102 Each issue of Flex Mentallo is loosely aligned with an era of comics, and the second issue takes us into the Silver Age. The Silver Age was notable for crazy experimentation, often putting straight-arrow heroes,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/15030/on-jla-earth-2-by-grant-morrison-and-frank-quitely/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15030/on-jla-earth-2-by-grant-morrison-and-frank-quitely/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:00:21 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=15030 Like many classic comics from the 1980s onward, JLA: Earth 2 (the 1999 original graphic novel written by Grant Morrison with art by Frank Quitely) plays with comics history in a postmodern way, offering new… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/14871/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/14871/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-flex-mentallo-part-1/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:30:58 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=14871 The Invisibles is Grant Morrison’s definitive work about our world, the nexus of his philosophical worldview, simultaneously the source and culmination of his ideas about our universe. But there is another world, the super-hero world,… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/29067/all-star-superman-vol-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29067/all-star-superman-vol-1/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 14:58:38 +0000 Jason Owen http://sequart.org/?p=29067 We have read the stories before. The stories of the tragic hero: where the hero will fight for what is just, for what is right, but in the end that hero will die. All Star… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/640/confessions-of-a-new-x-men-reader/ http://sequart.org/magazine/640/confessions-of-a-new-x-men-reader/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:00:07 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=640 Grant Morrison made me care about the X-Men for the first time. Oh, I’d read the X-Men.  I liked the ideas behind “Days of Future Past” and “The Dark Phoenix Saga.”  I just didn’t care. And it didn’t help… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2461/censorship-of-the-authority/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2461/censorship-of-the-authority/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:00:13 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2461 The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks upon the United States of America left many Americans, and much of the world, seriously shaken and disturbed. Almost immediately, the shockwaves echoed throughout the artistic world: many speculated… [more]]]> 3 http://sequart.org/magazine/2186/mark-millar-on-the-authority/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2186/mark-millar-on-the-authority/#comments Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:00:55 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2186 The Authority, already popular, has taken off under the new team of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. Though many doubted they could replace their popular predecessors, they have followed a revolutionary act with one that… [more]]]> 0