http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/66931/wonder-woman-more-than-just-an-object-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66931/wonder-woman-more-than-just-an-object-2/#comments Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:00:25 +0000 A.G. Holdier http://sequart.org/?p=66931 What do armpits, a marketing campaign, and the United Nations all have in common? If you guessed “Wonder Woman,” then you’re close; more specifically, each of these things have been at the center of recent… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/66874/the-classical-roots-of-wonder-woman-and-sandman/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66874/the-classical-roots-of-wonder-woman-and-sandman/#comments Sun, 04 Jun 2017 13:00:42 +0000 Sasha Fraze http://sequart.org/?p=66874 Note: Here I am primarily concerned with George Perez’s run as writer-artist, issues 1-25 Neil Gaiman likes to wear his influences on his sleeves. Every issue of Sandman has more than enough references to classic… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66858/wonder-woman-spirit-of-truth-and-child-of-love/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66858/wonder-woman-spirit-of-truth-and-child-of-love/#comments Sat, 03 Jun 2017 14:00:40 +0000 Matthew Kirshenblatt http://sequart.org/?p=66858 By the time this article is seen, Wonder Woman will return to Patriarch’s World on the big screen thanks to DC Comics, Warner Brothers, Patty Jenkins, and Gal Gadot. As such, I really wanted to… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66842/beyond-the-sword-and-shield-a-critical-analysis-about-the-princess-of-themyscira-what-she-stands-for-and-why-she-serves-as-a-good-example-for-the-power-that-modern-day-people-not-just-women-posses/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66842/beyond-the-sword-and-shield-a-critical-analysis-about-the-princess-of-themyscira-what-she-stands-for-and-why-she-serves-as-a-good-example-for-the-power-that-modern-day-people-not-just-women-posses/#comments Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:00:51 +0000 Jarrett Mazza http://sequart.org/?p=66842 It’s not difficult for a comic book fan to understand the reasons why Wonder Woman is one of the greatest superheroes in the extensive gallery that is the DC Universe. It is also just as… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66839/wonder-woman-origin-clay-to-be-molded/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66839/wonder-woman-origin-clay-to-be-molded/#comments Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:00:46 +0000 Benjamin Hall http://sequart.org/?p=66839 Wonder Woman is not an archetype. Actually let me rephrase that by saying her current origin of being Zeus’s (Greek God and serial cheater) progeny via an affair with Queen Hippolyte (Diana’s mother and hereafter… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66826/%e2%80%9cwhere-have-you-been%e2%80%9d-wonder-woman-and-the-dawn-of-justice-in-a-polarized-world/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66826/%e2%80%9cwhere-have-you-been%e2%80%9d-wonder-woman-and-the-dawn-of-justice-in-a-polarized-world/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:00:05 +0000 Ian Boucher http://sequart.org/?p=66826 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) “This is how a democracy works. We talk to each other. We act by the consent of the governed, sir. I have sat here before to say that… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66823/whats-really-at-stake-with-wonder-woman/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66823/whats-really-at-stake-with-wonder-woman/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:00:08 +0000 Karra Shimabukuro http://sequart.org/?p=66823 I was born in 1976, a bicentennial baby as my mother used to say. One of my first clear memories is of going to see Star Wars in the theatre. For television, we only had… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66806/wonder-woman-%e2%80%9811-ill-conceived/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66806/wonder-woman-%e2%80%9811-ill-conceived/#comments Wed, 31 May 2017 19:00:53 +0000 Leonard Sultana http://sequart.org/?p=66806 There is nothing more frustrating than a squandered opportunity. In 2011, as the Smallville series was reaching its finale, Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment attempted to capitalise on the interest in its superhero brands… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66798/wonder-woman-the-promise-of-hope/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66798/wonder-woman-the-promise-of-hope/#comments Wed, 31 May 2017 14:00:40 +0000 Michael Campochiaro http://sequart.org/?p=66798 Superheroes are often symbolic representations of any number of emotional, psychological, or behavioral traits. In them, we see highly exaggerated and stylized versions of ourselves. Taking an oath to wage a lifetime war on crime,… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/66794/an-amazon-and-a-crime-writer-walk-into-a-wardobe-the-retconned-legacy-of-dorothy-woolfolk/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66794/an-amazon-and-a-crime-writer-walk-into-a-wardobe-the-retconned-legacy-of-dorothy-woolfolk/#comments Tue, 30 May 2017 18:30:39 +0000 Sara K. Ellis http://sequart.org/?p=66794 Last December, the UN decision to strip Wonder Woman of her role as Ambassador to Women and Girls felt a bit like the universe had been retconned. Again.  It was ugly timing after the U.S.… [more]]]> 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/66779/reflections-in-a-mirror-wonder-woman%e2%80%99s-multiverse/ http://sequart.org/magazine/66779/reflections-in-a-mirror-wonder-woman%e2%80%99s-multiverse/#comments Mon, 29 May 2017 17:45:54 +0000 Richard Gray http://sequart.org/?p=66779 Wonder Woman was the first to travel in the Multiverse. While The Flash is often credited with the first stories that not only gave birth to the Silver Age of comics, but opened up the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/65284/its-wonder-woman-week-at-sequart/ http://sequart.org/magazine/65284/its-wonder-woman-week-at-sequart/#comments Sun, 28 May 2017 11:00:06 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=65284 Coinciding with this week’s release of Wonder Woman, the character’s first theatrical motion picture in her long history, Sequart is celebrating Wonder Woman Week! All this week, we’ll be running content focusing on Wonder Woman.… [more]]]> 0