http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/68424/also-its-congruent-with-lovecrafts-ideal-state-of-ataraxia-providence-12-and-the-acceptance-of-apocalypse/ http://sequart.org/magazine/68424/also-its-congruent-with-lovecrafts-ideal-state-of-ataraxia-providence-12-and-the-acceptance-of-apocalypse/#comments Sat, 26 May 2018 23:16:26 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=68424 “…of all the space unoccupied by familiar material objects not one particle was vacant. Indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting disarray, and close to every known thing were whole worlds of… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/66665/mythic-world-rewriting-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66665/mythic-world-rewriting-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/#comments Tue, 16 May 2017 19:45:09 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=66665 “All countries and all cultures, in the first few centuries that follow their inception, seem to naturally produce their individual supernatural mythologies and webs of folkloric belief. This much we can deduce by looking at… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/65325/without-doubt-the-fullest-and-truest-expression-of-ethereal-genius-tragedy-transition-and-triumph-in-providence-11/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65325/without-doubt-the-fullest-and-truest-expression-of-ethereal-genius-tragedy-transition-and-triumph-in-providence-11/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:00:42 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=65325 “…fantastic references to some plan for the extirpation of the entire human race and all animal and vegetable life from the earth by some terrible elder race of beings from another dimension. He would shout… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/65934/traversing-the-plateau-of-leng-to-read-is-to-be-read-in-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65934/traversing-the-plateau-of-leng-to-read-is-to-be-read-in-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:50:44 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=65934 “So much of this is made of books, this Commonplace book….” – Robert Black, Commonplace Book, June 5th, 1919, Providence #1, p. 32 This article is strange for a few reasons. First off, it’s about… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/65753/down-a-dark-path-of-bibliomancy-the-necronomicon-in-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows-providence-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65753/down-a-dark-path-of-bibliomancy-the-necronomicon-in-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows-providence-2/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:15:26 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=65753 In Part I of “Down A Dark Path of Bibliomancy: The Necronomicon in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence” we looked at how Alan Moore incorporated and reinterpreted H.P. Lovecraft’s “History of the Necronomicon” and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/65737/down-a-dark-path-of-bibliomancy-the-necronomicon-in-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65737/down-a-dark-path-of-bibliomancy-the-necronomicon-in-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:15:34 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=65737 “My own rule is that no weird story can truly produce terror unless it is devised with all the care and verisimilitude of an actual hoax.” – H.P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith (17 October… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/65691/watching-a-serial-of-strange-aeons-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65691/watching-a-serial-of-strange-aeons-alan-moore-and-jacen-burrows%e2%80%99-providence/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:00:55 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=65691 A lot of people, and I do mean a lot of people, are writing about Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence and have been for quite some time. You can look at Joe Linton, Robert… [more]]]> 3 http://sequart.org/magazine/64333/the-universe-doesnt-care-this-is-not-punishment-but-rather-it-is-appreciation-celebration-commiseration-and-concern-in-providence-10/ http://sequart.org/magazine/64333/the-universe-doesnt-care-this-is-not-punishment-but-rather-it-is-appreciation-celebration-commiseration-and-concern-in-providence-10/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:00:15 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=64333 “I will tell the audient void. . . . I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval… [more]]]> 6 http://sequart.org/magazine/64330/and-providence-hesitates-on-the-very-cusp-of-another-world-than-this-rejection-resolution-and-revelation-in-providence-9/ http://sequart.org/magazine/64330/and-providence-hesitates-on-the-very-cusp-of-another-world-than-this-rejection-resolution-and-revelation-in-providence-9/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:00:51 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=64330 “This stone, once exposed, exerted upon Blake an almost alarming fascination. He could scarcely tear his eyes from it, and as he looked at its glistening surfaces he almost fancied it was transparent, with half-formed… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/63323/%e2%80%9cdreams-writings-and-our-outlandish-human-imaginings%e2%80%a6-they%e2%80%99re-at-the-very-heart-of-it-%e2%80%9d/ http://sequart.org/magazine/63323/%e2%80%9cdreams-writings-and-our-outlandish-human-imaginings%e2%80%a6-they%e2%80%99re-at-the-very-heart-of-it-%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:30:46 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=63323 “ A blessed haze lies upon all this region, wherein is held a little more of the sunlight than other places hold, and a little more of the summer’s humming music of birds and bees;… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/62864/%e2%80%9cits-like-underneath-everything-there-is-just-chaos%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-perspective-and-politics-in-providence-7/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62864/%e2%80%9cits-like-underneath-everything-there-is-just-chaos%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-perspective-and-politics-in-providence-7/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:00:49 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=62864 “Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/61573/%e2%80%9cthe-fourth-means-is-most-terrible-and-rests-on-the-eviction-of-a-soul%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-transcription-and-trauma-in-providence-6/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61573/%e2%80%9cthe-fourth-means-is-most-terrible-and-rests-on-the-eviction-of-a-soul%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d-transcription-and-trauma-in-providence-6/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:45:27 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=61573 “And yet, its realism was so hideous that I sometimes find hope impossible. If the thing did happen, then man must be prepared to accept notions of the cosmos, and of his own place in… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/60411/being-the-frightful-smile-of-their-creator-providence-5/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60411/being-the-frightful-smile-of-their-creator-providence-5/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:00:05 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=60411 “Non-Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of the Gothic… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59985/there-was-no-hand-to-hold-me-back/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59985/there-was-no-hand-to-hold-me-back/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:00:36 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=59985 “That the prince of the powers of darkness, passing by the flower and pomp of the earth, should lay preposterous siege to the weak fantasy of indigent eld — Nor, when the wicked are expressly… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59828/howd-you-do-my-little-siren/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59828/howd-you-do-my-little-siren/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:00:55 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=59828 Let’s begin by returning to the idea of Alan Moore infusing the Mythos with an emotional current and introducing the alien to well, the alien. I am undoubtedly one of those strange folk who doesn’t… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59300/and-thus-exemplify-this-process-duality-duplicity-and-dissolution-in-providence-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59300/and-thus-exemplify-this-process-duality-duplicity-and-dissolution-in-providence-2/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:00:50 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=59300 Providence thus far appears at the very least to be an exercise in dichotomy. The first issue portraying relatively liberated sexual play alongside tragic repression. The second issue appears to do much the same, only… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58437/leng-were-all-on-leng-alan-moores-providence-and-the-cthulhu-mythos/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58437/leng-were-all-on-leng-alan-moores-providence-and-the-cthulhu-mythos/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:00:54 +0000 Dave Whittaker http://sequart.org/?p=58437 A while back I discussed just what it was that defines the sense of the Lovecraftian. At that time I spoke of Alan Moore’s The Courtyard and Neonomicon and their contrast to the perhaps less… [more]]]> 4