http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/60089/why-i-am-not-a-superhero-fan/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60089/why-i-am-not-a-superhero-fan/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:00:07 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=60089 I’m fairly open about my own tastes and predilections when it comes to comics, or any other medium. I’ll freely admit to anyone who cares to ask that, while I love comics, I’m not that… [more]]]> 5 http://sequart.org/magazine/59996/steven-spielberg-superhero-movies/ http://sequart.org/magazine/59996/steven-spielberg-superhero-movies/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:00:52 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=59996 In a recent interview with the Associated Press to promote his upcoming Cold War thriller, Bridge of Spies, director Steven Spielberg said that the superhero move would eventually “go the way of the Western.”  He… [more]]]> 4 http://sequart.org/magazine/56702/sam-peckinpah-westerner/ http://sequart.org/magazine/56702/sam-peckinpah-westerner/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:00:45 +0000 Greg Carpenter http://sequart.org/?p=56702 You remember that amazing TV show that got cancelled after just a few episodes?  The one from the respected TV writer who then went on to become a famous filmmaker?  The show was sort of… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/52325/religion-ethnicity-and-marxism-in-the-films-of-sergio-leone/ http://sequart.org/magazine/52325/religion-ethnicity-and-marxism-in-the-films-of-sergio-leone/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:00:22 +0000 Marc DiPaolo http://sequart.org/?p=52325 Children are gunned down in the street and in their homes. Women are forced into slavery, beaten, and raped. Men are slowly, methodically tortured. Lifelong friends casually – and sometimes inexplicably – betray one another.… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/41732/east-of-west-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/41732/east-of-west-review/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:00:35 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=41732 The great thing about Westerns, as I often explain to those who don’t understand the genre, is that you can really “go there”. It’s a genre that contains within it the whole spectrum of that… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/11515/on-boys-ranch-1-3-by-jack-kirby-and-joe-simon-1950/ http://sequart.org/magazine/11515/on-boys-ranch-1-3-by-jack-kirby-and-joe-simon-1950/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:09 +0000 Colin Smith http://sequart.org/?p=11515 In his Art of the Comic Book, R. C. Harvey offers Boys’ Ranch as an example of Jack Kirby having elevated comics into an “art form.” It’s a contention that it’d be entirely foolish to… [more]]]> 0