http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/9981/the-year-in-comics-week-five-crime-does-not-pay/ http://sequart.org/magazine/9981/the-year-in-comics-week-five-crime-does-not-pay/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:01 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=9981 Some of it is still shocking. Even here in 2012, even in a world where just about anything is available with a few clicks on a mouse and the slightest degree of willpower, there remain… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2621/colin-smith-on-comics-criticism-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2621/colin-smith-on-comics-criticism-part-2/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:00:22 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2621 Continuing from part one, we now move on to discuss when it’s fair to criticize a work for depicting human rights violations such as torture and rape, writing personally, and comics culture. 6. When is… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/2362/roundtable-on-current-super-hero-comics-the-problem-of-nostalgia-and-the-genres-future/ http://sequart.org/magazine/2362/roundtable-on-current-super-hero-comics-the-problem-of-nostalgia-and-the-genres-future/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:00:59 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=2362 Depending on whom you ask, current super-hero comics are either sub-competent exercises in nostalgia or exciting, dynamic explorations of heroism, adapted for contemporary times. To explore this subject, I’ve invited Cody Walker, author of the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/657/the-challenge-of-the-super-friends-why-warren-ellis-bryan-hitchs-the-authority-is-one-of-the-sweetest-comics-of-the-modern-era/ http://sequart.org/magazine/657/the-challenge-of-the-super-friends-why-warren-ellis-bryan-hitchs-the-authority-is-one-of-the-sweetest-comics-of-the-modern-era/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:00:48 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=657 For a comic book characterised by its “intense graphic violence” (according to Wikipedia) and designed to be marked by an “attention to nasty little details, its appalling bad attitude, and the utter carnage the cast are capable… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/24021/autobiographical-surrealism/ http://sequart.org/magazine/24021/autobiographical-surrealism/#comments Sat, 06 May 2006 15:17:52 +0000 Rob Clough http://sequart.org/?p=24021 It’s a bit difficult to give a proper critique of Henry Chamberlain’s ALICE IN NEW YORK. The author informs us from the start that it’s the beginning of a graphic novel. As such, it feels… [more]]]> 0