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The Lost Work of Will Eisner Adds to an Impressive Legacy

Ian Dawe — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:50:09 +0000

The Lost Work of Will Eisner Adds to an Impressive Legacy" title="The Lost Work of Will Eisner Adds to an Impressive Legacy" style="float:left;" />Available now from Locust Moon, The Lost work of Will Eisner gives us a glimpse into the evolution of both an artist and a medium. The collection presents two strip-based comics runs from the master… [more]

Frank Miller’s Daredevil Saga, Part 2: Enter Elektra!

James Kelly — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:30:56 +0000

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Great Jimmy Corrigan: An Analysis of Comic Book Techniques Featured in the Acclaimed Graphic Novel

Jarrett Mazza — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:00:24 +0000

It is always comforting when one stumbles upon a comic that is less advertised than those seen at the LCS. It is a time when one purchases a book that’s only source of marketing has… [more]

Ten Great Titles From Sequential’s Summer Sale

Ian Dawe — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:00:21 +0000

Sequential, an iPad app for reading comics, is having a great summer sale on dozens of indie comics titles this month, and if those sorts of comics are to your taste, there’s quite a bit… [more]

Breaking the Silence: How Comics Visualize Sound

Eric Wong — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:00:04 +0000

Of all the elements defining comics, the most paradoxical is that it is a silent medium that nonetheless has sound represented. Comics are in the peculiar position of needing to imply sounds through images, making… [more]

The Good Duck Artist and the Godfather of Comics

Tom Speelman — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:00:26 +0000

In less than a week, I’ll be presenting at the 22nd Annual Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con on something I’ve been studying for three years. In my freshman composition class, we were instructed to vote… [more]

Don’t Ignore the Art: Reviewing and Commenting on Comics, Part 1

Forrest Helvie — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:00:38 +0000

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]

F.J. DeSanto on Will Eisner

Mike Phillips — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 22:00:31 +0000

I was speaking with director (and Sequart alum) Patrick Meaney about our Will Eisner Week plans, and he said, “You guys should hit up [Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods and Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts executive… [more]

Making Love the Will Eisner Way: Intercourse Discourse in A Contract with God

Desmond White — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 18:00:15 +0000

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The Long Influence of Will Eisner

Harry Edmundson-Cornell — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 12:00:42 +0000

In any medium there are great, influential works that no one actually partakes of. In film this mantle falls on the shoulders of directors like Carl Theodor Dreyer, Fritz Lang, and Abel Gance. They made… [more]

Writing About Comics the Will Eisner Way

Scott Cederlund — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:00:44 +0000

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]

A Brief History of the Spirit

Will Murray — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:00:39 +0000

Many articles have been written about The Spirit, but the best man to recount his origins was his creator. “When we started,” Will Eisner told The Comics Journal in one of the many interviews he… [more]

Sing Me a Sweet Song: Eisner’s Tragic Love Triangle

Stuart Warren — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:00:01 +0000

The lamentable times we find ourselves in are rife with class disparity and injustice. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and cheap, ambling diatribes against these injuries grow more and more cliché. The… [more]

Will Eisner and the Ethics of Care

Jaime Infante Ramírez — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:00:09 +0000

Remembering Will Eisner – and borrowing from Michael Chabon – Art Spiegelman said that the Jews have always been known as the People of the Book, but now they were also the People of the… [more]

“A Will Eisner Reader”: Your Introduction to a Master

Ian Dawe — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:00:11 +0000

To me, he’s always “Mr Eisner”. I’m sure he would have told me to call him “Will”, but something in my upbringing would have prevented me from being so informal. He could just as easily… [more]

Frimme and His God: Eisner’s Meditations on Suffering

Stuart Warren — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:00:57 +0000

Will Eisner, like Walt Disney or Orson Welles, is a household name in his field of expertise. He pioneered his work with such love and dedication that few have contested his reputation as the man… [more]

To the Heart of Will Eisner

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:00:27 +0000

Some of you may remember that back in January, when I first started writing this weekly column, we conducted a poll of Sequart contributors who ranked the greatest works and most important creators in comics… [more]

It’s Will Eisner Week!

Julian Darius — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:00:17 +0000

This week is the sixth annual Will Eisner Week, in which the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation helps organize events promoting the late and legendary comics creator, as well as the comics medium and free… [more]

On Canons, Critics, Consensus, and Comics, Part 3

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:00:57 +0000

This week marks the final installment of our search for a comics canon. As I mentioned in the first column, I recently conducted a survey of the people who contribute to Sequart. A total of 25… [more]

On Canons, Critics, Consensus, and Comics, Part 2

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:00:35 +0000

As I explained in last week’s column, I recently asked my fellow Sequart contributors to answer the following question: “What are the 10 greatest works in the history of the comics medium, and who are the… [more]

1986: Will Eisner on Old Age (Part 2)

Peter Sanderson — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:00:12 +0000

In the final issue of Will Eisner’s Quarterly, published in 1986, Eisner wrote and drew three comics stories that each deal with a protagonist in the last decades of his life. In the previous installment,… [more]

1986: Will Eisner on Old Age (Part 1)

Peter Sanderson — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:00:54 +0000

Towards the end of The Hunger Dogs, Jack Kirby, a longtime veteran creator of comics, turned his attention to the oldest members of his cast: the evil Darkseid, who is finally toppled from power, and… [more]

1986, The Year That Changed Comics: Introduction, Part 2

Peter Sanderson — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:00:51 +0000

Over the course of the coming months, Sequart will be serializing chapters from my forthcoming book, currently titled 1986: The Year That Changed Comics, here on their website. This book originated as a year-long monthly… [more]

1986, The Year That Changed Comics: Introduction

Peter Sanderson — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:00:38 +0000

In discussions of graphic novels, three works that are regularly cited as landmarks of the medium are Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s highly acclaimed Watchmen, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, and Frank Miller’s Batman: The… [more]

Life on Another Planet: Because the Options Here Don’t Look Great

Forrest Helvie — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:00:45 +0000

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Diggin’ Up Gold! #3 — Original Comic Shops

Mike Gagnon — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:42:49 +0000

The Original Comic Shop Today’s comic fans hear the term comic shop and it could only mean one thing; your local comic book and hobby specialty store. So when reading the title “The Original Comic… [more]

Passionella: A Welcome New Collection From Jules Feiffer

Rob Clough — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:39:50 +0000

There’s a case to be made that Jules Feiffer was the first prototype of the underground/alternative cartoonist. A comics lifer, he started out as Will Eisner’s assistant on THE SPIRIT and eventually wrote a number… [more]

Why Comics Matter

Julian Darius — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:00:03 +0000

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]

Tensions Between Text and Image

Julian Darius — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:00:01 +0000

The medium variously known as comic books, graphic novels, bandes-dessinés, manga, manga, sequential art, and sequart has been defined as the juxtaposition of text and image on the static page. Once can here recall Words… [more]

The Sequart Manifesto

Julian Darius — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:00:42 +0000

What do we call our medium? The most common answer is “comics.” Some would say otherwise, offering “comix,” “the ninth art,” or “sequential art.” Others abroad would say “manga” or “les bandes-dessinés.” All, however, are… [more]