http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/843/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2004/ http://sequart.org/magazine/843/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2004/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:00:12 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=843 This is the fourth annual State of American Comics Address that I have given. The State of American Comics Address is intended to sum up, in retrospect and for the historical record, the American comics… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/892/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2003/ http://sequart.org/magazine/892/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2003/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:00:25 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=892 Things are, in many ways, quite good in American comics. Sales stink, but the quality of the average comic book is really rather high. It may seem a bit spoiled, in this climate, to complain… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/6418/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2002/ http://sequart.org/magazine/6418/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2002/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2002 17:00:53 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=6418 The American comic book industry, as an economic institution, is doing terribly. Artistically, however, this will be remembered as a fairly good period. Many mainstream titles are selling less than 20,000 copies; a few even… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/6410/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2001/ http://sequart.org/magazine/6410/the-state-of-american-comics-address-2001/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:00:02 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=6410 Okay, ground rules: I take it for granted that comics — or, rather, the medium of graphic literature (an important distinction) — is a serious artistic form, obviously under-appreciated by comparison to painting, sculpture, and… [more]]]> 0