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Excerpt from Sequart’s Book How to Analyze & Review Comics: Deep Dive Creator Interview: Jim Zub
The following is an excerpt from Sequart’s book How to Analyze & Review Comics. For more information, including purchase options, click HERE. Students, journalists, and critics of all backgrounds can learn a great deal by understanding… [more]
Van Jensen on His OGN Two Dead
“In America, no one is more powerful than a police officer,” a character says at one point in Two Dead, the new crime graphic novel from publisher Gallery 13, “a cop can detain you, hurt… [more]
David Seelow on Teaching with Comics and His Book Lessons Drawn
With over twenty-five years of experience in higher education, David Seelow’s career has been defined by his desire to develop new and innovative ways of educating students. In addition to his academic work, Seelow founded… [more]
Clark Bint on Frank at Home on the Farm #3
Frank at Home on the Farm is a wild and unique book from publisher Mad Robot Comics. Created by writer Jordan Thomas and artist Clark Bint, Frank is a psychological horror mystery set in a 1920s… [more]
April Wright on Her Career and Documentary Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
A cinephile from a young age, April Wright only began pursuing filmmaking 15 years ago, after building a financially successful career in another field. Since her first script got made in 2005, Wright has made… [more]
Bulent Hasan on Black Project
Black Project is an upcoming comic by Bulent Hasan currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. PHILLIPS: What inspired you to enter the indie comics arena? HASAN: I’ve been a comic book fan all my life, and to… [more]
Tony McMillen on Serious Creatures
Recently, Sequart sat down with Tony McMillen to chat about his new comics series Serious Creatures. He talks about the comic itself, his ‘70s & ‘80s horror movie effects influences, his early Image Comics &… [more]
Jordan Thomas on Kickstarting and Frank at Home on the Farm #2
Frank at Home on the Farm is a wild and unique new book from publisher Mad Robot Comics. Created by writer Jordan Thomas and artist Clark Bint, Frank is a psychological horror mystery set in a… [more]
Maia Kobabe Discusses Eir Career and Eir Book Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe (pronouns e/em/eir) is a nonbinary, queer writer and illustrator. A graduate of California College of the Arts, Maia has quickly built a tremendous portfolio of work – much of which can be found… [more]
Suzanne Scott Discusses Her Career and New Book Fake Geek Girls
Currently an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at UT Austin, Dr. Suzanne Scott is a scholar focused on fan cultures, gender studies, popular culture, and the various ways they intersect. She has recently published a… [more]
Evan Peterson on Writing, Academia, and His New Video Game Drag Star!
Evan J. Peterson is a Swiss Army Knife of writers. In addition to being the creator of what he describes as the ‘Evan-verse,’ he has published non-fiction, poems, short horror and science fiction stories, and… [more]
Jordan Thomas on Frank at Home on the Farm #1
Frank at Home on the Farm is a wild and unique new book from publisher Mad Robot Comics. Created by writer Jordan Thomas and artist Clark Bint, Frank is a psychological horror mystery set in… [more]
Professors Kishonna Gray and David Leonard Discuss Video Game Studies and Their Latest Book Woke Gaming
Even though video games have only grown in popularity, scholarship on this medium has been lacking in quantity. As scholars of culture and mass media finally begin to deeply dive into the subject, we are… [more]
Julian Chambliss Discusses MSU’s Comics Forum and Commitment to Pop Culture Studies
Leaving the peninsula of Florida for the peninsula of Michigan, Dr. Julian Chambliss is now a professor in Michigan State University’s Department of English. As a scholar of comic books and popular culture, Chambliss will… [more]
Ben Fritz Discusses His Book The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies
For every show and movie a person enjoys, the story behind how those shows and films got made is often just as a fascinating because the business of entertainment production is a never-ending drama. And… [more]
Why Latinx Superheroes Matter: An Interview with Eisner Nominee Frederick Luis Aldama
I first met Professor Frederick Luis Aldama in 2015, at a conference held by the International Society for the Study of Narrative in Chicago. His talk on mixed-race superheroes was part of a larger panel… [more]
An Interview in Patrick Meaney’s House of Demons
Patrick Meaney, producer of She Makes Comics, and the director of Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously, Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods as well as many other documentaries has recently released his first-ever horror film House of… [more]
Shelley Barba and Joy Perrin on The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC’s Enigmatic Villain
Harley Quinn first appeared in a 1992 episode of Batman: The Animated Series. With no previous history in Batman’s lore, Quinn could have just been another random character created for an animated series. However, she… [more]
A. David Lewis on Being a Religion and Comics Scholar, and His New Book Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation
A. David Lewis is a scholar of religion, literature, and comics studies. He has published graphic novels and several academic works that explore convergence of religion and comic books. His latest academic project is Muslim… [more]
Professors Joanna Page and Edward King Discuss the Book Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America
Though the academic study of comic books and graphic novels is exploding in popularity, a growing concern is that so much of this research centers on content from North America, Western Europe, and Japan. With… [more]
Tim Hanley on The Many Lives of Catwoman
Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992) Tim Hanley (author of Wonder Woman Unbound and Investigating Lois Lane) is back with another superhero spotlight book, The Many Lives of Catwoman. I recently talked to Tim about all things… [more]
Sequart Interviews Jon Morris of “Gone & Forgotten”
MICHAEL CAMPOCHIARO: Your site, Gone & Forgotten, is one of the longest-running comic book blogs on the internet, going on twenty years now. What led you to not only start the blog, but to focus… [more]
Mike Phillips on Necropolitan
Necropolitan is an exciting new comic book from publisher Martian Lit’s growing line of titles. Created by Mike Phillips, Julian Darius, and Steven Legge, the recently released Necropolitan #1 is a fresh take on the… [more]
Denis Kitchen Discusses his Career and Harvey Kurtzman’s Trump
Denis Kitchen has decades of experience in comics publishing. Some of his notable accomplishments have been founding Kitchen Sink Press and the Comic Book Legal Defense. One of Kitchen’s more recent projects is Trump: The… [more]
Emil Ferris on Her Career and Her Graphic Novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris is an artist and lifelong fan of monsters. After honing her skills at the Art Institute of Chicago, she began professionally producing art, animation, and comics influenced by monsters and her city, Chicago.… [more]