http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/69841/captain-video-forgotten-father-of-the-sci-fi-franchise/ http://sequart.org/magazine/69841/captain-video-forgotten-father-of-the-sci-fi-franchise/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:41:31 +0000 James Heath Lantz http://sequart.org/?p=69841 Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Luke Skywalker, the Doctor, Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Captain Video… What do those names have in common? If you said they are protagonists that launched science fiction franchises you’d be correct,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/65551/turn-loose-our-death-rays-and-kill-them-all-the-complete-works-of-fletcher-hanks/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65551/turn-loose-our-death-rays-and-kill-them-all-the-complete-works-of-fletcher-hanks/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:35:37 +0000 Michael Campochiaro http://sequart.org/?p=65551 In the first of two forewords to Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All: The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks (Fantagraphics), Paul Karasik describes the cult Golden Age cartoonist Fletcher Hanks as the “village… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/12943/on-joe-simon-and-jack-kirby-captain-america-1941/ http://sequart.org/magazine/12943/on-joe-simon-and-jack-kirby-captain-america-1941/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:00:24 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=12943 1-2-3-4! Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s “The Case of the Hollow Men” is punk super-heroics. Exuberant, gleeful, transgressive, rough-edged, snag-toothed, life-affirming, street, political, violent, fun. To read it again is to wonder what the super-hero… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/11515/on-boys-ranch-1-3-by-jack-kirby-and-joe-simon-1950/ http://sequart.org/magazine/11515/on-boys-ranch-1-3-by-jack-kirby-and-joe-simon-1950/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:09 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=11515 In his Art of the Comic Book, R. C. Harvey offers Boys’ Ranch as an example of Jack Kirby having elevated comics into an “art form.” It’s a contention that it’d be entirely foolish to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/1138/action-comics-1-and-the-superman-we-know-and-love/ http://sequart.org/magazine/1138/action-comics-1-and-the-superman-we-know-and-love/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:00:27 +0000 Cody Walker http://sequart.org/?p=1138 Action Comics #1 is the quintessential comic book. Beyond simply being Superman’s first appearance, the cover is iconic, and it holds the distinction of being the most expensive comic book of all time. If ever… [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