http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/39813/20th-century-boys-volume-five/ http://sequart.org/magazine/39813/20th-century-boys-volume-five/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:00:34 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=39813 This is an important volume, deserving of a particularly long write-up. You’ve been warned. This volume starts the conclusion of Kenji’s story, and introduces the next part of this tale – Kanna’s story, which takes… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/40546/an-interview-with-kumar-sivasubramanian/ http://sequart.org/magazine/40546/an-interview-with-kumar-sivasubramanian/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:00:39 +0000 Matt Emery http://sequart.org/?p=40546 Kumar Sivasubramanian is an Indian-born Canadian currently living in Melbourne, Australia. He has written for Dark Horse Presents and translated over eighty volumes of manga from Japanese to English, including such series as Blade of… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/39347/on-the-art-and-cycle-of-proper-suffering-the-artist-figure-in-phoenix-karma-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/39347/on-the-art-and-cycle-of-proper-suffering-the-artist-figure-in-phoenix-karma-part-3/#comments Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:00:10 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=39347 In the second part of this article, we looked at the challenges that faced each artist-figure in Phoenix: Karma. Now, in the final part of this article, we will look at how they come to… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/39338/on-the-art-and-cycle-of-proper-suffering-the-artist-figure-in-phoenix-karma-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/39338/on-the-art-and-cycle-of-proper-suffering-the-artist-figure-in-phoenix-karma-part-2/#comments Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:00:13 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=39338 In the first part of this article, we looked at the beginnings of the artist-figure Tezuka Osamu, the cultural time period that informed his work, the era he chose to create Phoenix: Karma in and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/39332/on-the-art-and-cycle-of-proper-suffering-the-artist-figure-in-phoenix-karma/ http://sequart.org/magazine/39332/on-the-art-and-cycle-of-proper-suffering-the-artist-figure-in-phoenix-karma/#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:00:10 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=39332 It is neither a new nor a culturally specific idea that art is created through suffering: that the figure of the artist is an individual who must experience great ordeals in order to accomplish his… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/38934/on-canons-critics-consensus-and-comics-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/38934/on-canons-critics-consensus-and-comics-part-3/#comments Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:00:57 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=38934 This week marks the final installment of our search for a comics canon.  As I mentioned in the first column, I recently conducted a survey of the people who contribute to Sequart.  A total of 25… [more]]]> 7 http://sequart.org/magazine/30124/the-grandmasters/ http://sequart.org/magazine/30124/the-grandmasters/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:00:28 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=30124 I’ve been planning a series of articles about the all-time greats of the medium for a while. I was planning to focus on living greats, but with Sequart doing this Manga Week it seemed like… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/12101/my-introduction-to-manga-part-2-a-mechanical-emerson-for-the-future-in-urasawa%e2%80%99s-pluto/ http://sequart.org/magazine/12101/my-introduction-to-manga-part-2-a-mechanical-emerson-for-the-future-in-urasawa%e2%80%99s-pluto/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:00:12 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=12101 In 1942, Isaac Asimov introduced the world to the three laws of robotics and, in doing so, set the stage that later science fiction writers interested in writing about robots would have to cross. Ten… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/29052/the-pushman-and-other-stories/ http://sequart.org/magazine/29052/the-pushman-and-other-stories/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:40:07 +0000 Jeff Chon http://sequart.org/?p=29052 Just as his friend Osamu Tezuka is the undisputed godfather of manga, Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the godfather of gekiga, it’s “alternative” cousin. Tatsumi coined the phrase gekiga, meaning “drama pictures,” to set it apart from… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28305/instant-karma%e2%80%99s-gonna-get-you-chon-discusses-the-phoenix-comic-without-mutants/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28305/instant-karma%e2%80%99s-gonna-get-you-chon-discusses-the-phoenix-comic-without-mutants/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:36:11 +0000 Jeff Chon http://sequart.org/?p=28305 As I was walking through Chinatown last weekend, admiring the endless tanks filled with multicolored koi (which is my new passion of the moment), I noticed something very odd. The little Asian kids were mostly… [more]]]> 0