http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/62401/comics-the-medium-of-the-21st-century/ http://sequart.org/magazine/62401/comics-the-medium-of-the-21st-century/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2016 12:00:26 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=62401 I’ve put forward the theory before that comics will be the defining storytelling medium of the 21st century, just as novels were in the 19th and cinema was in the 20th. It’s a theory inspired… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/59465/time-paradox-sound-in-comics/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59465/time-paradox-sound-in-comics/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:00:41 +0000 Eric Wong http://sequart.org/?p=59465 Comics are unique in that it is the only medium where sound is seen, rather than heard by its audience.  My previous discussion on this topic focused on some visual devices used in comics to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/48930/marlon-brando-collective-cartooning/ http://sequart.org/magazine/48930/marlon-brando-collective-cartooning/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:00:49 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=48930 In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud defines the act of cartooning as “amplification through simplification.”  In other words, a cartoon ignores most of the details, focusing instead on only one or two key components.  In the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/47823/dont-ignore-the-art-reviewing-and-commenting-on-comics-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/47823/dont-ignore-the-art-reviewing-and-commenting-on-comics-part-2/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:00:36 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=47823 Line Work (Pencils / Brushwork) One of the first things I look at when opening up a comic is the style that’s being used. Is it more lifelike (realistic) or cartoonish (iconic)? Scott McCloud discusses… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/47815/dont-ignore-the-art-reviewing-and-commenting-on-comics-part-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/47815/dont-ignore-the-art-reviewing-and-commenting-on-comics-part-1/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:00:38 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=47815 What’s the difference between a comic book and a novel? The answer seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? Yet, it still confounds me to no end that someone will take the time to write a review… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/40563/understanding-comics-on-the-wabash-cannonball/ http://sequart.org/magazine/40563/understanding-comics-on-the-wabash-cannonball/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:00:22 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=40563 I took the last “left” to Clarksville because, contrary to popular belief, there is no train.  Driving up the Interstate from Nashville, I wondered idly how many other people had been disappointed to learn that… [more]]]> 5 http://sequart.org/magazine/40374/writing-about-comics-the-will-eisner-way/ http://sequart.org/magazine/40374/writing-about-comics-the-will-eisner-way/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:00:44 +0000 Scott Cederlund http://sequart.org/?p=40374 In 1985, decades after his first comic book, Will Eisner wrote Comics and Sequential Art, his treatise about how comic books work.  The first of three books (Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative and Expressive Anatomy… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/3564/superhero-comics-and-reader-textualizationparticipation-and-narrative-construction/ http://sequart.org/magazine/3564/superhero-comics-and-reader-textualizationparticipation-and-narrative-construction/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:00:01 +0000 Tim Bavlnka http://sequart.org/?p=3564 This is a piece that explores the idea of textualization in super-hero comics and how these stories are constructed. More than that, it is an introduction to exploring purpose — why are super-heroes so engaging… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/2335/it-takes-two-%e2%80%93-text-image-in-comics/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2335/it-takes-two-%e2%80%93-text-image-in-comics/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:00:23 +0000 David Balan http://sequart.org/?p=2335 So, comics as an art form! A truly legitimate art form, unique and self-actualized, with debacles and triumphs all its own. Not the bastard child of film and literature, and not just for kids, male adolescents, or… [more]]]> 6 http://sequart.org/magazine/656/seduction-of-the-insolent-or-retraction-of-the-innocent/ http://sequart.org/magazine/656/seduction-of-the-insolent-or-retraction-of-the-innocent/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:00:58 +0000 A. David Lewis http://sequart.org/?p=656 Know thy enemy. It is a long-standing idiom and one that is well-practiced by mainstream comics, most specifically the super-hero genre. Reed Richards and Victor Von Doom share a mutual past of promise and ambition;… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2564/comics-identity-crisis-claiming-art-is-a-misguided-quest/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2564/comics-identity-crisis-claiming-art-is-a-misguided-quest/#comments Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:56:31 +0000 Neil Cohn http://sequart.org/?p=2564 Comics have a bit of an identity crisis: our culture cannot decide what they really are, leaving them to pay the price both financially and legally. A common remedy for this is the insistence that comics are… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/28379/american-thesis-2-what-are-comics/ http://sequart.org/magazine/28379/american-thesis-2-what-are-comics/#comments Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:35:47 +0000 Jeff Tepper http://sequart.org/?p=28379 It is easier to see how comics are related to their readers when the many different terms are understood. Defining comics is the first step. Several industry professionals offer their opinions of what the word… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2512/why-comics-matter/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2512/why-comics-matter/#comments Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:00:03 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2512 The following video consists of a lecture I delivered on 5 January 2006 at Glen Carbon Centennial Library in Glen Carbon, Illinois. The total runtime is 46 minutes. Because of its length, it has been… [more]]]> 0