http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/69977/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/69977/superhero-costume-in-the-wildstorm-comics-of-warren-ellis-part-3/#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2019 11:26:36 +0000 David Sweeney http://sequart.org/?p=69977 In How To Read Superhero Comics and Why, Klock applies Harold Bloom’s concept of the ‘agon’ to Ellis’s treatment of superheroes in his work for WildStorm. For Bloom, poets can only escape the ‘anxiety of… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/64724/sequart-releases-the-best-there-is-at-what-he-does-examining-chris-claremont%e2%80%99s-x-men/ http://sequart.org/magazine/64724/sequart-releases-the-best-there-is-at-what-he-does-examining-chris-claremont%e2%80%99s-x-men/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:00:16 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=64724 Sequart Organization is proud to announce the publication of The Best There is at What He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men, by Jason Powell. The X-Men franchise is a sprawling comic-book mythology, to which hundreds… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58977/richard-bensam-on-minutes-to-midnight-twelve-essays-on-watchmen/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58977/richard-bensam-on-minutes-to-midnight-twelve-essays-on-watchmen/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:00:30 +0000 Mike Phillips http://sequart.org/?p=58977 As part of its ongoing Patreon campaign, Sequart runs a Book / Movie of the Month Club. Patrons get a digital copy of a Sequart book or movie at the beginning of each month, and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58395/dirty-realistic-fiction-superheroes-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58395/dirty-realistic-fiction-superheroes-part-2/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:00:42 +0000 William Bradley http://sequart.org/?p=58395 All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative! I read—and loved—The Dark Knight Returns when I was in the 7th grade, about three… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/54715/sequart-releases-the-future-of-comics-the-future-of-men-matt-fractions-casanova/ http://sequart.org/magazine/54715/sequart-releases-the-future-of-comics-the-future-of-men-matt-fractions-casanova/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:00:45 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=54715 Sequart Organization is proud to announce the release of The Future of Comics, the Future of Men: Matt Fraction’s Casanova, authored by Geoff Klock (How to Read Superhero Comics and Why). Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/49068/living-like-a-comic-book-casanova-vol-1-luxuria/ http://sequart.org/magazine/49068/living-like-a-comic-book-casanova-vol-1-luxuria/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:00:38 +0000 David Faust http://sequart.org/?p=49068 Note: In my previous article on Matt Fraction, Gabriel Ba, and Fabio Moon’s Casanova, I examined the series in its relation to themes present in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon. This next series of articles… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/620/modernism-and-the-birth-of-the-american-super-hero/ http://sequart.org/magazine/620/modernism-and-the-birth-of-the-american-super-hero/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2005 07:43:07 +0000 Robert A. Emmons, Jr. http://sequart.org/?p=620 The idea of the modern American super-hero is an abstract and nebulous concept.[1] America is in a constant state of change and evolution; as such, we can only assume that our icons evolve with it.… [more]]]> 0