http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/49331/jack-kirby-the-hunger-dogs-and-the-modern-age-of-comics/ http://sequart.org/magazine/49331/jack-kirby-the-hunger-dogs-and-the-modern-age-of-comics/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:00:09 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=49331 Jack Kirby’s a great artist.  He just can’t draw very well. –Anonymous comics fan Okay, so it was me.  I’m not proud of it, but that “anonymous” quote was something I actually said a few… [more]]]> 4 http://sequart.org/magazine/17221/the-older-generation%e2%80%99s-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-4/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17221/the-older-generation%e2%80%99s-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-4/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:00:40 +0000 Peter Sanderson http://sequart.org/?p=17221 As Jack Kirby’s The Hunger Dogs draws to its close, the arcs of two of its major characters, Orion and Esak, are resolved, as shown in the previous installment. Then, Kirby moves the action of… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/16640/the-older-generations-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/16640/the-older-generations-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-3/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:00:39 +0000 Peter Sanderson http://sequart.org/?p=16640 As we have seen, in The Hunger Dogs, the graphic novel in which Jack Kirby resolved his “Fourth World” saga, Kirby’s optimistic vision of the early 1970s turned dark and ominous. The young, as represented… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/16269/the-older-generation%e2%80%99s-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/16269/the-older-generation%e2%80%99s-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-2/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:00:48 +0000 Peter Sanderson http://sequart.org/?p=16269 From the start of Jack Kirby’s The Hunger Dogs, a new age had arrived. When Kirby’s original Fourth World series debuted, the Forever People were the primary representatives of the new, young generation.  They were… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/15891/1986-the-older-generations-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/15891/1986-the-older-generations-farewell-the-hunger-dogs-part-1/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:00:58 +0000 Peter Sanderson http://sequart.org/?p=15891 To examine how comics changed in 1986, we should begin by looking at what comics were like in 1985. From that year, I have chosen one particular significant work to explore:  Jack Kirby’s The Hunger… [more]]]> 0