It’s Sequart’s Fifth Annual Sci-Fi Week!

Coinciding with this week’s release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Sequart is celebrating its fifth annual Sci-Fi Week!

All this week, we’ll be running content focusing on sci-fi comics and popular culture.

Sequart ran its first Sci-Fi Week in May 2013, timed to the release of Star Trek into Darkness. Our second Sci-Fi Week ran in November 2014, timed to the release of Interstellar. Our third Sci-Fi Week ran in December 2015, timed to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Our fourth Sci-Fi Week ran in December 2016, timed to the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Sequart’s love of science fiction extends to its book division. We just published a book on the Star Wars expanded universe. We’ve also published books on Star Wars comics; on Star Wars movies and TV shows; on Star Trek comics; on Planet of the Apes comics; on Planet of the Apes comics, TV, and novels; and on Jack Kirby’s 2001 comics! We’ve also announced a book on Blade Runner, with more to come.

Although Sci-Fi Week is our only annual themed week, Sequart occasionally runs other themed weeks. Since 2013, Sequart has used occasional themed weeks to celebrate popular subjects, to fill holes in comics and pop-culture criticism, and to serialize in-depth criticism over a single week instead of longer periods. We like to think of these themed weeks as miniature conventions or conferences. Overall, Sci-Fi Week 5 is our 17th themed week. Past themed weeks include:

# Name Date Began Occasion Type Posts
16 Wonder Woman Week Mon, 29 May 2017 Wonder Woman character 12
15 Sci-Fi Week 4 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story theme 11
14 Sci-Fi Week 3 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens theme 17
13 Newspaper Comics Week Mon, 15 Dec 2014 Annie (2014) theme 8
12 Sci-Fi Week 2 Mon, 3 Nov 2014 Interstellar theme 11
11 Jack Kirby Week Mon, 25 Aug 2014 Jack Kirby’s birthday creator 9
10 Comics Artists Week Mon, 14 July 2014 we wanted to theme 11
9 Transformers Week Mon, 23 June 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction character 23
8 X-Men Week Mon, 19 May 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past character 18
7 Spider-Man Week Mon, 28 Apr 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 character 7
6 Will Eisner Week Mon, 3 Mar 2014 Will Eisner Week creator 11
5 Manga Week Mon, 24 Nov 2013 Oldboy (2013) theme 16
4 Thor Week Mon, 4 Nov 2013 Thor: The Dark World character 9
3 Superman Week Mon, 10 June 2013 Man of Steel character 10
2 Sci-Fi Week Mon, 20 May 2013 Star Trek into Darkness theme 19
1 Star Trek Week Mon, 13 May 2013 Star Trek into Darkness character 10
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In 1996, while still an undergraduate, Dr. Julian Darius founded what would become Sequart Organization. After graduating magna cum laude from Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisconsin), he obtained his M.A. in English, authoring a thesis on John Milton and utopianism. In 2002, he moved to Waikiki, teaching college while obtaining an M.A. in French (high honors) and a Ph.D. in English. In 2011, he founded Martian Lit, which publishes creative work, including his comic book Martian Comics. He currently lives in Illinois.

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Also by Julian Darius:

This Lightning, This Madness: Understanding Alan Moore\'s Miracleman, Book One

author

Stories out of Time and Space, Vol. 1

co-author

The Citybot\'s Library: Essays on the Transformers

author

Because We are Compelled: How Watchmen Interrogates the Comics Tradition

author

Judging Dredd: Examining the World of Judge Dredd

contributor

Somewhere Beyond the Heavens: Exploring Battlestar Galactica

contributor

The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe

contributor

producer

A Long Time Ago: Exploring the Star Wars Cinematic Universe

contributor

Classics on Infinite Earths: The Justice League and DC Crossover Canon

author

executive producer

New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics

contributor

producer

executive producer

When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl

author

a short documentary on Chris Claremont's historic run and its influence

executive producer

Warren Ellis: The Captured Ghosts Interviews

introduction

Voyage in Noise: Warren Ellis and the Demise of Western Civilization

co-author

Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan

contributor

The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made: Understanding Jack Kirby\'s 2001: A Space Odyssey

author

The Devil is in the Details: Examining Matt Murdock and Daredevil

contributor

Everything and a Mini-Series for the Kitchen Sink: Understanding Infinite Crisis

author

Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Keith Giffen\'s Legion of Super-Heroes

author

And the Universe so Big: Understanding Batman: The Killing Joke

author

a feature-length documentary film on celebrated comics writer Warren Ellis

executive producer

Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide

contributor

Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen

contributor

a documentary on the life and work of celebrated comics writer Grant Morrison

executive producer

Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes

contributor

Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen

author

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