http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/38725/on-canons-critics-consensus-and-comics-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/38725/on-canons-critics-consensus-and-comics-part-2/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:00:35 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=38725 As I explained in last week’s column, I recently asked my fellow Sequart contributors to answer the following question:  “What are the 10 greatest works in the history of the comics medium, and who are the… [more]]]> 13 http://sequart.org/magazine/15356/1986-the-year-that-changed-comics-introduction-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15356/1986-the-year-that-changed-comics-introduction-part-2/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:00:51 +0000 Peter Sanderson http://sequart.org/?p=15356 Over the course of the coming months, Sequart will be serializing chapters from my forthcoming book, currently titled 1986: The Year That Changed Comics, here on their website. This book originated as a year-long monthly… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/15257/1986-the-year-that-changed-comics-introduction-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15257/1986-the-year-that-changed-comics-introduction-part-1/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:00:38 +0000 Peter Sanderson http://sequart.org/?p=15257 In discussions of graphic novels, three works that are regularly cited as landmarks of the medium are Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s highly acclaimed Watchmen, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, and Frank Miller’s Batman: The… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/28490/american-thesis-5-the-revisionary-superhero-and-a-new-breed-of-comics/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28490/american-thesis-5-the-revisionary-superhero-and-a-new-breed-of-comics/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:47:51 +0000 Jeff Tepper http://sequart.org/?p=28490 After the industry’s expansion, through the use of direct distribution, comic books matured into a more intelligent and enjoyable entertainment. As readership of independent and underground comics increased, new characters emerged with dark and complicated… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28364/in-the-beginning-5/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28364/in-the-beginning-5/#comments Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:19:46 +0000 Chris Chopping http://sequart.org/?p=28364 A Different Kind of Hero The popular preconception of comics is that they’re all about costumed crime fighters battling super-villains and saving the city / world, but of course there is a lot more to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28370/american-thesis-1-introduction/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28370/american-thesis-1-introduction/#comments Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:28:19 +0000 Jeff Tepper http://sequart.org/?p=28370 Matthew Pustz, author of Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers, argues that any serious comic book reader can remember his or her very first comic. Many readers recall a surprising amount about the book… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28643/anniversary-blues/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28643/anniversary-blues/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:08:14 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28643 Up and down this year. We commemorated some anniversaries, added some others. Among the first, notably the publication of Einstein’s Specific at its centennial and Hiroshima + Nagasaki at their 60th. And among the second,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28608/old-worlds-for-new/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28608/old-worlds-for-new/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:36:48 +0000 Shathley Q http://sequart.org/?p=28608 What interests me most about comics is directly, the medium itself. I came to this realization by something of a hard road. Ad astra, per aspera.About fifteen years ago, I remember attempting the, even-now, Herculean… [more]]]> 0