http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/60323/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-part-twelve-where-it-all-hits-the-fan/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60323/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-part-twelve-where-it-all-hits-the-fan/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:00:22 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=60323 There’s no doubt about it — chapter ten of Garth Ennis and Warren Pleece’s True Faith, entitled “False Gods,” is an absolute barn-burner. Or church-burner, I guess, as the case may be. The authorities —… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/59794/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-part-eleven-enter-the-iron-lady/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59794/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-part-eleven-enter-the-iron-lady/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2015 11:00:09 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=59794 You knew it had to happen at some point in the pages of True Faith : Nigel, Terry, and their newfound “friends” have been entirely too successful in their church-burning campaign and,  this being 1989… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/58772/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-10/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58772/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-10/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:00:18 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=58772 Here, friends, in where things get worse—not for True Faith itself per se, as Garth Ennis and Warren Pleece are both really hitting their stride at this point in the story—but for poor, hapless Nigel… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58635/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-9/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58635/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-9/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2015 11:00:17 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=58635 As part five of Garth Ennis and Warren Pleece’s True Faith opens, we find our young protagonist, Nigel Gibson, well and truly out of his depth as lunatic (by most people’s standards, at any rate)… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58094/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-8/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58094/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-8/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:00:32 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=58094 There’s a question I just know you’re dying to ask right now—“dude, if you’re talking about True Faith, why do you have a cover scan of Preacher #1 at the top of your article?” It’s… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58086/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-7/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58086/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-7/#comments Sat, 30 May 2015 11:00:14 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=58086 Those were the opening lyrics to New Order’s breakthrough hit “True Faith,” but let’s be honest—they don’t have jack shit to do with the frame of mind of Nigel Gibson, the teenage protagonist in Garth… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/57229/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-6/ http://sequart.org/magazine/57229/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-circa-1989-90-pt-6/#comments Sat, 16 May 2015 11:00:57 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=57229 The next stop on our tour of British comics focused on disenfranchised teens/twentysomethings in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s brings us to True Faith, a smart, satirical, dare I say sometimes even poignant look… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/53829/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-pt-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/53829/portraits-in-alienated-british-youth-pt-1/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:00:31 +0000 Ryan C. http://sequart.org/?p=53829 Maybe it was something in the water—or something in the air—or just something floating around in the larger cultural zeitgeist of the time—but whatever the reason behind it all may have been, from the late… [more]]]> 0