http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/18417/jim-valentino-shadowhawk-year-one/ http://sequart.org/magazine/18417/jim-valentino-shadowhawk-year-one/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:00:20 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=18417 At the time of Image Comics’ inception, Jim Valentino openly admitted to being the least known founder.  Valentino stated in the first edition of the trade paperback of Shadowhawk vol. 1 that “I was pretty… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/17336/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefelds-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-4/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17336/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefelds-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-4/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:00:47 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=17336 Part Four: Final Thoughts Youngblood delivered a hyper-realistic experience of explosions and Adonis and Venus like superhumans in extreme conditions making use of extreme powers. Unfortunately, the super-team failed to deliver a truly super-heroic experience.… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/17335/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefelds-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17335/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefelds-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-3/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:00:17 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=17335 Part Three: When Pictures Aren’t Worth a Thousand Words Originally, I intended to split my focus on the interior art from the storyline itself. When considering the nature of the medium and the relationship of… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/15371/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefield%e2%80%99s-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15371/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefield%e2%80%99s-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-2/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:00:10 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=15371 While one certainly should not judge a book by its cover, applying this adage to the cover of a comic book can be problematic. For many readers, it is the cover art that captures the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/15349/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefield%e2%80%99s-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15349/sharpening-the-image-rob-liefield%e2%80%99s-youngblood-the-man-and-the-comic-that-started-it-all-part-1/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:00:17 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=15349 By many accounts, it was Rob Liefield who initiated talks about forming Image Comics and encouraged other rock star artists of the late 1980s and early 1990s into breaking away from the mainstream to form… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/14935/sharpening-the-image-introduction/ http://sequart.org/magazine/14935/sharpening-the-image-introduction/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:00:56 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=14935 Comic readers from Gen X and (older members of) Gen Y remember 1992 as a sort of zeitgeist for comics.  Change was in the air in all strata of the field: DC Comics not only… [more]]]> 3