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Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is Now Free on YouTube

Mike Phillips — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 01:00:28 +0000

Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is Now Free on YouTube" title="Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is Now Free on YouTube" style="float:left;" />Sequart Organization and Respect Films are proud to announce that their feature-length documentary Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is now available for free on Sequart’s YouTube channel SequartTV. Grant Morrison is one of the most… [more]

“Our Sonnet’s End Attained, Awaits The Hearse Let’s Raise Our Gaze From Verse… To Multiverse!”: Multiversity #2, Superjudge

Dave Whittaker — Wed, 20 May 2015 11:00:16 +0000

Multiversity #2, Superjudge" title="“Our Sonnet’s End Attained, Awaits The Hearse Let’s Raise Our Gaze From Verse… To Multiverse!”: Multiversity #2, Superjudge" style="float:left;" />Grant Morrison, and to some extent the metaphysics of the DC Multiverse, have a very Gnostic flavour with an affinity for Manichean Dualism. Universe A and Universe B, The Invisibles and the Archons, Apokolips and… [more]

“I’m Making Dream Art”: Further Thoughts on Nameless #1

Dave Whittaker — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 12:00:55 +0000

Nameless #1" title="“I’m Making Dream Art”: Further Thoughts on Nameless #1" style="float:left;" />There are at least two ways to write Lovecraftian horror. One is to take the various elements of the Cthulhu mythos and tell your own story within that framework. Another way is to use various… [more]

“The Greatest and / or Worst Picto-fics of All Time”: The Multiversity: The Just #1

Dave Whittaker — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:00:57 +0000

The Multiversity: The Just #1" title="“The Greatest and / or Worst Picto-fics of All Time”: The Multiversity: The Just #1" style="float:left;" />Three issues in and the Multiversity event shows no signs of slowing down or disappointing. One of the added joys of The Just for me personally was seeing more of Ultra Comics and that books… [more]

Grant Morrison: The Zoids Years

Robert McLaughlin — Wed, 07 May 2014 11:00:53 +0000

Zoids Years" title="Grant Morrison: The Zoids Years" style="float:left;" />Grant Morrison is well known for looking at the banality of life and giving things a unique cosmic twist. To live in his world of a magic-fuelled, comic rock-star means working in a world of… [more]

On Canons, Critics, Consensus, and Comics, Part 2

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:00:35 +0000

As I explained in last week’s column, I recently asked my fellow Sequart contributors to answer the following question: “What are the 10 greatest works in the history of the comics medium, and who are the… [more]

Theology and Bullshit

Jack L. Smith — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:00:40 +0000

To be honest, the end of the world has always scared the shit out of me. To be clear, I’m not referring to the threat of nuclear war or massive global climate change that would… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 4: “We are All UFOs”

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:00:18 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 4: “We are All UFOs”" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 4: “We are All UFOs”" style="float:left;" />At last, we reach the end of this great four part novel known as Flex Mentallo. The last issue clarifies a lot of what came before, and heralds the launch of a new “reconstructionist” super-hero… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 3: “Dig the Vacuum”

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:00:10 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 3: “Dig the Vacuum”" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 3: “Dig the Vacuum”" style="float:left;" />Issue 3 of Flex Mentallo brings us into the “dark age” of super-hero comics, starting with the Dark Knight parodying cover, which even features faux autographs from the creators. This quickly segues into a Watchmen… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 2: “My Beautiful Head”

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:30:56 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 2: “My Beautiful Head”" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 2: “My Beautiful Head”" style="float:left;" />Each issue of Flex Mentallo is loosely aligned with an era of comics, and the second issue takes us into the Silver Age. The Silver Age was notable for crazy experimentation, often putting straight-arrow heroes,… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 1

Patrick Meaney — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:30:58 +0000

Flex Mentallo, Part 1" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Flex Mentallo, Part 1" style="float:left;" />The Invisibles is Grant Morrison’s definitive work about our world, the nexus of his philosophical worldview, simultaneously the source and culmination of his ideas about our universe. But there is another world, the super-hero world,… [more]

Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: St. Swithin’s Day

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:00:25 +0000

St. Swithin’s Day" title="Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: St. Swithin’s Day" style="float:left;" />During the early ’90s, Grant Morrison was wrapping up his acclaimed runs on Doom Patrol and Animal Man and moving away from mainstream super-heroics. It was a time when an increase in self-publishing heralded an… [more]

Grant Morrison: The Day-Glo Years

Patrick Meaney — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:00:20 +0000

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years writing about Grant Morrison, talking about Grant Morrison, and making a film about Grant Morrison, and it’s now time to continue that work with… [more]

Fiction Suit

Mike Greear — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:00:56 +0000

Alan Moore’s done it. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee did it. Osamu Tezuka did it. Grant Morrison did it so regularly and intently that he gave it a name. Comic book creators seem to have… [more]

Two Books About Grant Morrison Now on Kindle

Julian Darius — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:25:38 +0000

Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s celebrated Grant Morrison: The Early Years and Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles are both now available on Kindle. Grant Morrison: The Early Years, by Timothy Callahan… [more]

Sequart’s Books Get New, Cheaper Editions

Julian Darius — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:18:27 +0000

Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s entire line of eight books of comics scholarship is now available in revised editions featuring significantly lower cover prices. Each of these new editions also feature revised covers and cleaner,… [more]

I Appreciate Lady Gaga on a Much Deeper Level than You Do

Cody Walker — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:00:44 +0000

I saw The Matrix long before I ever picked up my very first The Invisibles comic, so as I read the comic, I looked for all of the alleged idea theft that had occurred when… [more]