http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/61585/the-importance-of-being-a-fa/ http://sequart.org/magazine/61585/the-importance-of-being-a-fa/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:00:52 +0000 Jarrett Mazza http://sequart.org/?p=61585 I am not pessimist. Let me make that very clear before I begin this exposition. I am not some kind of troll who sits behind a computer screen, ready to pounce on the latest superhero… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/47640/a-tale-of-two-dark-knights/ http://sequart.org/magazine/47640/a-tale-of-two-dark-knights/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:00:13 +0000 Christopher Maurer http://sequart.org/?p=47640 Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns (or DKR) has long been considered one of the greatest works in comic books. Since its release in 1986, it has been lauded as an industry-changing story that helped… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/10653/the-anxiety-of-influence-and-failed-sequels-frank-miller-and-the-dark-knight-strikes-again/ http://sequart.org/magazine/10653/the-anxiety-of-influence-and-failed-sequels-frank-miller-and-the-dark-knight-strikes-again/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:00:52 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=10653 “I mean the criticism teaches not a language of criticism […] but a language in which poetry already is written, the language of influence, of the dialectic…” (Bloom 25). In his controversial work, The Anxiety… [more]]]> 4 http://sequart.org/magazine/2451/did-the-dark-knight-strike-again-frank-millers-new-digital-reality/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2451/did-the-dark-knight-strike-again-frank-millers-new-digital-reality/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:00:21 +0000 Robert A. Emmons, Jr. http://sequart.org/?p=2451 The longevity of comics depends on the effort to give them relevance and context in history. The medium’s survival relies on its connection with its contemporaries. In the hands of writer / artist Frank Miller,… [more]]]> 0