http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/65598/southern-bastards-16-moving-the-goalposts/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65598/southern-bastards-16-moving-the-goalposts/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:15:27 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=65598 There are eerie and tempting parallels between Coach Boss and a certain American President-elect. Both are brutal, simple-minded, deeply insecure tyrants, and both have a tendency to move the goalposts and declare victory when an… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/64948/southern-bastards-15-the-taste-of-ribs-and-defeat/ http://sequart.org/magazine/64948/southern-bastards-15-the-taste-of-ribs-and-defeat/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:15:40 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=64948 Here we are again in the steaming tribal vendetta-filled world of Southern Bastards. Craw County continues, here in issue #15, to be a community that measures is worth based on the standing of its high… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/64121/congratulations-to-the-2016-eisner-award-winners/ http://sequart.org/magazine/64121/congratulations-to-the-2016-eisner-award-winners/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2016 16:15:18 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=64121 Our series on the Eisner Awards was never meant to be predictive of who would win — quite the contrary, we were only trying to profile some of the nominated titles, because they’re all worth… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/63603/southern-bastards-14-homecoming-end/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63603/southern-bastards-14-homecoming-end/#comments Tue, 10 May 2016 18:00:44 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=63603 As we reach the end of the “Homecoming” story arc in Southern Bastards, it becomes fairly clear what this particular storyline has always been about. Not football, or even race, necessarily, but the rather the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62569/southern-bastards-13-game-time/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62569/southern-bastards-13-game-time/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:05:00 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=62569 Ah, American football. It isn’t the world’s most competitive sport (have you seen the World Cup lately?), nor is it necessarily its most violent (I’m looking at you, Australian rules rugby), but there’s something about… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62333/my-pick-for-the-best-comic-of-2015-invisible-republic/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62333/my-pick-for-the-best-comic-of-2015-invisible-republic/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:00:26 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=62333 “Beware the best-of list”, Shakespeare once wrote. Or he should have. There are deep problems with basing one’s opinion of the literature worth reading on one critic’s list of the “best” of the year, most… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/61211/southern-bastards-12-the-return-of-earl-tubb/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61211/southern-bastards-12-the-return-of-earl-tubb/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:30:35 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=61211 “Americans love a winner, and cannot abide a loser.” -Gen. George S. Patton We have to go way back to issue #4 of Southern Bastards to recall the story that’s picked up here in issue… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/60513/southern-bastards-11-serpents/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60513/southern-bastards-11-serpents/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:00:43 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=60513 Each new issue of Southern Bastards seems to get deeper, more thoughtful and more artful in its rendering of the American south. The book has always had a wonderful ability to capture the Southern Gothic… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59179/southern-bastards-10-review-a-force-of-nature/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59179/southern-bastards-10-review-a-force-of-nature/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:00:42 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=59179 Coach Big is dead. That fact no doubt affects people in lots of different ways in Craw County, and the larger mythic universe of Southern Bastards. But before we get to all of that, the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58473/southern-bastards-9-past-present-and-football/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58473/southern-bastards-9-past-present-and-football/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:00:22 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=58473 “But the Good Lord always gives us another chance, don’t he?” -Coach Big Here were are again, back in the tangled thicket of history, race, sex, sports, ribs and morality that populate the literate and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/56690/the-bastards-of-southern-bastards-8/ http://sequart.org/magazine/56690/the-bastards-of-southern-bastards-8/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:00:44 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=56690 One question that keeps returning as we enjoy Jason Aaron and Jason Latour’s Southern Bastards is how much of it is specifically Southern, and how much qualifies as simple old-fashioned bastardry? Not being a southerner… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/55324/southern-bastards5-7-changes-of-character-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/55324/southern-bastards5-7-changes-of-character-review/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:00:30 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=55324 Jason Aaron and Jason Latour are the George R. R. Martins of metaphorical realist fantasy comics set in the south. They aren’t afraid to take sudden dramatic right turns, to lose characters that you would… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/54424/southern-bastards-an-opera-of-the-south/ http://sequart.org/magazine/54424/southern-bastards-an-opera-of-the-south/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:00:42 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=54424 Southern Bastards seems like it’s very specifically about the American south. The focus on southern cooking (I can’t remember a comic book that made me hungry before, except possibly Watchmen’s references to the Gunga Diner),… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/46537/southern-bastards-starts-with-a-bang-and-a-plop/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46537/southern-bastards-starts-with-a-bang-and-a-plop/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:00:27 +0000 Matthew Amylon http://sequart.org/?p=46537 Southern Bastards #1, from Jason Latour and Jason Aaron, is the most recent high point in the barrage of high-profile releases coming from Image Comics over the last couple years. Insider fans like myself have… [more]]]> 1