http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/63456/a-tour-of-the-2016-eisner-nominees-part-4-the-faceless-ghost-and-other-macabre-tales-from-japan/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63456/a-tour-of-the-2016-eisner-nominees-part-4-the-faceless-ghost-and-other-macabre-tales-from-japan/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:15:43 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=63456 If there’s anything at all to old cliche that to understand someone, you must know what they fear and what they desire, then reading ghost stories from a different culture must qualify as some sort… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/57400/the-burden-of-change-mourning-the-pastoral-in-pom-poko/ http://sequart.org/magazine/57400/the-burden-of-change-mourning-the-pastoral-in-pom-poko/#comments Sun, 17 May 2015 11:00:24 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=57400 Japanese tales are burdened with loss, especially modern ones. Modern Japanese fiction, produced by such writers as Natsume Soseki, is conscious about the loss of innocence and the disintegration of Eastern culture against the Western… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/55259/japan%e2%80%99s-copyright-crusade-six-months-along/ http://sequart.org/magazine/55259/japan%e2%80%99s-copyright-crusade-six-months-along/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:00:59 +0000 J. Holder Bennett http://sequart.org/?p=55259 About six months ago I wrote here on Sequart about the new enforcement of copyright laws in Japan. Since that time their efforts have had some chance to play out in the real world and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/48947/japan-anti-piracy-campaign/ http://sequart.org/magazine/48947/japan-anti-piracy-campaign/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:00:50 +0000 J. Holder Bennett http://sequart.org/?p=48947 There has been much discussion of a newly enforced law in Japan regarding online piracy. A-Kon, for which I run various programs, and most other anime conventions do not permit bootlegging at events and internet… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/46767/optimus-prime-pedophile/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46767/optimus-prime-pedophile/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:00:43 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=46767 Did you know that the beloved leader of the Autobots had a fetish for underage girls? Or that a Megatron look-alike not only shared the same fetish, but repeatedly tried to rape those girls? Or that… [more]]]> 4 http://sequart.org/magazine/45893/manga-make-up-hits-u-s/ http://sequart.org/magazine/45893/manga-make-up-hits-u-s/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:00:01 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=45893 It’s sadly rare that we have an occasion to talk about make-up on Sequart. But then, it’s rare that a brand as big as l’Oréal Paris has a line named after comics. The new line… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/30077/on-urasawas-20th-century-boys-friends/ http://sequart.org/magazine/30077/on-urasawas-20th-century-boys-friends/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:00:48 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=30077 When I first read Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys: Friends, I stopped after the initial six pages and put the book away. For they were so perfect in themselves, so wonderfully concise and clever and moving,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28391/half-action-movie-half-art-film-the-wolverine-delivers/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28391/half-action-movie-half-art-film-the-wolverine-delivers/#comments Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:00:22 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=28391 The Wolverine has everything fans require. It’s got lots of great actions sequences, culminating in a big showdown. But it’s also got some art-film DNA in the mix. It’s an action film that also works… [more]]]> 1