http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/60480/smorgasbord-28-sandcastles-in-the-sand/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60480/smorgasbord-28-sandcastles-in-the-sand/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:00:32 +0000 Tom Shapira http://sequart.org/?p=60480 Tom and Shawn discuss recent news out of Baltimore, Mark Millar’s third run at playing Simon Cowell, the redemption of Chip Zdarsky, Genndy Tartakovsky’s CAGE!, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s upcoming run on Black Panther (and why people… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58549/a-sandman-miscellany-sandman-overture-5-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58549/a-sandman-miscellany-sandman-overture-5-review/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:00:44 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=58549 One of the difficult aspects of reviewing Neil Gaiman’s bookend of his long developed Sandman conceptual universe is making heads and tails of the myriad pathways that intertwine in the grand narrative. [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/53187/a-sandman-miscellany-sandman-overture-4-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/53187/a-sandman-miscellany-sandman-overture-4-review/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:30 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=53187 Written by: Neil Gaiman Art by: J.H. Williams, III Cover by: J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Variant Cover by: J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean The long awaited Sandman Overture #4 has arrived, just in time… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/48600/a-sandman-miscellany-sandman-overture-3-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/48600/a-sandman-miscellany-sandman-overture-3-review/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:00:02 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=48600 Written by: Neil Gaiman Art by: J.H. Williams, III Cover by: J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Variant Cover by: J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Since its genesis in the long distant past of December 2013,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/34090/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/34090/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-3/#comments Wed, 25 Dec 2013 12:00:50 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=34090 The next segment of The Sandman Overture Issue #1 doesn’t have a very auspicious beginning.  Pages twenty-five and twenty-six open up into a spread with Morpheus flying towards his Castle and his Dreaming kingdom: now… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/34089/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/34089/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1-part-2/#comments Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:00:49 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=34089 In the next part of The Sandman Overture Issue #1, we now get to focus on Morpheus’ tools in trade: dreams. After transitioning to page fourteen, what we have waiting for us is something that… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/34088/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/34088/flowers-fire-and-dreams-in-neil-gaimans-sandman-overture-1/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:00:48 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=34088 An overture is traditionally the opening or introduction to an opera. Yet if anything in the past twenty-five or so years of the comics medium can be compared to an opera–as a masterpiece made up… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/33323/the-sandman-overture-1-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/33323/the-sandman-overture-1-review/#comments Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:00:48 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=33323 The Sandman Overture #1 Written by Neil Gaiman Art by J.H. Williams, III Cover by J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Variant Cover by J.H. Williams, III Dave McKean Published by DC/VERTIGO Comics Rating: 10 (of 10) The Sandman takes… [more]]]> 2