http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/61774/take-on-the-risks-important/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61774/take-on-the-risks-important/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:00:38 +0000 Jarrett Mazza http://sequart.org/?p=61774 Is it worth the risk? Industry professionals ask themselves this question whenever they are about to embark on a new project. Most of the time it is answered in a variety of ways, with creators… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/41424/the-sandman-overture-2-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/41424/the-sandman-overture-2-review/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:00:16 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=41424 Written by: Neil Gaiman Art by: J.H. Williams, III Cover by: J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Variant Cover by: J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Rating: 9 (of 10) After two delays and much anticipation, the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/34090/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/34090/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-3/#comments Wed, 25 Dec 2013 12:00:50 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=34090 The next segment of The Sandman Overture Issue #1 doesn’t have a very auspicious beginning.  Pages twenty-five and twenty-six open up into a spread with Morpheus flying towards his Castle and his Dreaming kingdom: now… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/34089/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/34089/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-2/#comments Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:00:49 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=34089 In the next part of The Sandman Overture Issue #1, we now get to focus on Morpheus’ tools in trade: dreams. After transitioning to page fourteen, what we have waiting for us is something that… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/34088/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/34088/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:00:48 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=34088 An overture is traditionally the opening or introduction to an opera. Yet if anything in the past twenty-five or so years of the comics medium can be compared to an opera–as a masterpiece made up… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/33323/the-sandman-overture-1-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/33323/the-sandman-overture-1-review/#comments Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:00:48 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=33323 The Sandman Overture #1 Written by Neil Gaiman Art by J.H. Williams, III Cover by J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Variant Cover by J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Published by DC/VERTIGO Comics Rating: 10 (of 10) The Sandman takes… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/13672/j-h-williams-iii-on-working-on-seven-soldiers/ http://sequart.org/magazine/13672/j-h-williams-iii-on-working-on-seven-soldiers/#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:00:37 +0000 Patrick Meaney http://sequart.org/?p=13672 Artist J.H. Williams III is one of the most innovative and acclaimed comics artists working today. Here, he discusses collaborating with writer Grant Morrison to build the unique visual style of his work on Seven… [more]]]> 0