http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 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/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