http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/58400/tsuburaya-and-hondas-last-charge-destroy-all-monsters/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58400/tsuburaya-and-hondas-last-charge-destroy-all-monsters/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2015 13:00:40 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=58400 There was another big number coming down Toho’s pipe shortly after they’d celebrated their anniversary. Their next kaiju film would be the twentieth they had directed, something worthy of celebration. However the celebration was to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/56832/a-voice-like-a-bell-godzilla-as-a-hero-and-the-arrival-of-king-ghidorah/ http://sequart.org/magazine/56832/a-voice-like-a-bell-godzilla-as-a-hero-and-the-arrival-of-king-ghidorah/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:00:01 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=56832 It was not long before awful Yamatano-orochi came. Soon, it noticed the smell of sake and struck its eight heads into each gate. It drank up the sake and began to sleep with a incredibly loud snore. Susanoo-no-mikoto cut its necks and tails one by one with his sword..The water color of the Hi-no-kawa river turned to red with its blood. [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/56779/the-onslaught-of-the-mushrooms-toho%e2%80%99s-serious-and-silly-sixties/ http://sequart.org/magazine/56779/the-onslaught-of-the-mushrooms-toho%e2%80%99s-serious-and-silly-sixties/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:00:44 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=56779 "I felt that I was now seeing plain, whereas ordinary vision gives us an imperfect view; I was seeing the archetypes, the Platonic ideas, that underlie the imperfect images of everyday life. The thought crossed my mind: could the divine mushrooms be the secret that lay behind the ancient Mysteries?" [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/56471/mothra-mysterians-varan-the-battle-in-outer-space/ http://sequart.org/magazine/56471/mothra-mysterians-varan-the-battle-in-outer-space/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:00:01 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=56471 Earth Defence Force is the start of an important transition in Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya’s techniques, a transition that wouldn’t reach its peak until a new decade arrived. The bright and colourful space film required Eiji Tsuburaya to focus more on optical effects then he had to date. [more]]]> 0