http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/21187/patrick-meaney-the-sequart-interview/ http://sequart.org/magazine/21187/patrick-meaney-the-sequart-interview/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:00:32 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=21187 Patrick Meaney is the author of Our Sentence is Up, as well as essays in several Sequart anthologies and a contributor to Sequart.org. He’s also the director of Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods and Warren… [more]]]> 0 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/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/14041/grant-morrison%e2%80%99s-day-glo-years-fantastic-four-1234/ http://sequart.org/magazine/14041/grant-morrison%e2%80%99s-day-glo-years-fantastic-four-1234/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:40:01 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=14041 Fantastic Four: 1234 was written at the tail end of Morrison’s Day-Glo Years, during his brief period writing for Marvel in the early 2000s. Grant has spent the vast majority of his career writing for… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/13616/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-the-mystery-play/ http://sequart.org/magazine/13616/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-the-mystery-play/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:00:10 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=13616 The Mystery Play is another short-form Morrison work from the “adult comics” era of the early ’90s. It feels decidedly removed from pretty much anything Morrison has done in the past fifteen years, as he… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/13129/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-st-swithins-day/ http://sequart.org/magazine/13129/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-st-swithins-day/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:00:25 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=13129 During the early ’90s, Grant Morrison was wrapping up his acclaimed runs on Doom Patrol and Animal Man and moving away from mainstream super-heroics. It was a time when an increase in self-publishing heralded an… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/12323/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-kill-your-boyfriend/ http://sequart.org/magazine/12323/grant-morrisons-day-glo-years-kill-your-boyfriend/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:00:24 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=12323 NOTE: Rather than start chronologically in the early ’90s, I chose to begin my exploration of Grant’s Day-Glo Years with a work that best exemplifies the themes, motifs, and energy of that era of his career: Kill… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/11850/grant-morrison-the-day-glo-years-introduction/ http://sequart.org/magazine/11850/grant-morrison-the-day-glo-years-introduction/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 11:00:20 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=11850 I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years writing about Grant Morrison, talking about Grant Morrison, and making a film about Grant Morrison, and it’s now time to continue that work with… [more]]]> 1