http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/60956/the-two-films-that-have-actually-scared-me/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60956/the-two-films-that-have-actually-scared-me/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:00:25 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=60956 It seems too simple and trite to carry any real wisdom, but it’s worth repeating that horror movies need to be scary. Not just disgusting or disturbing, or visually interesting in some artistic way, but… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/60046/a-look-at-zombies-throughout-history/ http://sequart.org/magazine/60046/a-look-at-zombies-throughout-history/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:00:43 +0000 Maria Karen http://sequart.org/?p=60046 Following the recent premiere of new AMC series Fear the Walking Dead with its record-breaking number of viewers, we can once again confirm that our fascination with the reanimated corpses is alive and well. With… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/58207/eating-brains-zombies-and-dystopianism/ http://sequart.org/magazine/58207/eating-brains-zombies-and-dystopianism/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2015 11:00:47 +0000 Stuart Warren http://sequart.org/?p=58207 In 2013 I was at SDCC meeting Julian Darius for the first time. After a long, harrowing comic-con experience we both went to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund after party. There were famous people… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/51449/halloween-binge-return-of-the-living-dead/ http://sequart.org/magazine/51449/halloween-binge-return-of-the-living-dead/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:00:59 +0000 Harry Edmundson-Cornell http://sequart.org/?p=51449 An awesome zombie flick with nonsensical zombies, loads of camp, unnecessary nudity, punks, great needle drops, and, most importantly, "braaains." [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/49956/zombeing-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/49956/zombeing-2/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:00:37 +0000 Patrick Gough http://sequart.org/?p=49956 Previously: Being faithful to your genre, monsters as liminal beings, and horror as fascination. Beyond Thunderdome If the archetypal zombie story is apocalyptic, it’s worth considering what apocalyptic stories actually are. Chandra Phelan notes that… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/49951/zombeing-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/49951/zombeing-1/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:00:13 +0000 Patrick Gough http://sequart.org/?p=49951 “A Zombie movie that never ends” Like a lot of people, I love reading The Walking Dead and I’m not always sure why. Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Tony Moore’s book is ludicrously successful, not… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/49030/comic-con-discoveries-part-3-american-history-z-and-bob-the-angry-flower/ http://sequart.org/magazine/49030/comic-con-discoveries-part-3-american-history-z-and-bob-the-angry-flower/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:00:21 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=49030 There’s no denying the power and popularity of zombie stories, even if I, and others including Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, can’t fully understand why. Obviously there’s the horror genre thrills, the sheer grotesque power… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/41498/manifest-destiny-6-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/41498/manifest-destiny-6-review/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:00:34 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=41498 The most important part of this issue of Manifest Destiny, by Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Own Gieni, is the passage where we get to see Lewis and Clark’s dreams. In historical terms, Meriwether Lewis… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/41285/manifest-destiny-1-5-review/ http://sequart.org/magazine/41285/manifest-destiny-1-5-review/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:00:00 +0000 Ian Dawe http://sequart.org/?p=41285 The slug-line description of Manifest Destiny, a comic by Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts, is “Lewis and Clark go west to fight monsters”. That would be interesting enough right there, but thing that gives this… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/38401/loving-the-other-warm-bodies-as-post-post-911-zombie-movie/ http://sequart.org/magazine/38401/loving-the-other-warm-bodies-as-post-post-911-zombie-movie/#comments Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:00:33 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=38401 It’s easy to dismiss the 2013 zombie film Warm Bodies as a mash-up between Romeo and Juliet and the zombie genre. It’s just as easy to guess that Hollywood saw this as a potential way… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/17882/the-walking-lonely-hearts-looking-at-relationships-in-the-walking-dead-compendium-one/ http://sequart.org/magazine/17882/the-walking-lonely-hearts-looking-at-relationships-in-the-walking-dead-compendium-one/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:00:45 +0000 Nathan Harmon http://sequart.org/?p=17882 In the last few years, a massive trend that has infected the current pop culture is the Zombie Apocalypse. Movies, television, video games, and comic books all have contributed to the widespread interest in the… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/5135/something-to-dream-about-jasons-the-living-and-the-dead/ http://sequart.org/magazine/5135/something-to-dream-about-jasons-the-living-and-the-dead/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:00:31 +0000 Kevin Thurman http://sequart.org/?p=5135 Somewhere in your comic shop there is a small section left orphaned.  It sits alone, dying like the character Cerebus was fated to: unloved, unmourned and alone.  This is the section that is often scary… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/26916/comics-hype-and-a-christmas-new-comics-day/ http://sequart.org/magazine/26916/comics-hype-and-a-christmas-new-comics-day/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:32:52 +0000 Bryan Miller http://sequart.org/?p=26916 Welcome to the year’s final installment of New Comics Day. I’ll be taking off for a couple of weeks to recover from the annual post-Christmas, post-Day After Christmas, post-New Year’s Eve hangovers. NCD should be… [more]]]> 0