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Sequart Announces Five Books on Star Wars and Planet of the Apes
Sequart Organization is going sci-fi in a big way! With the success of our Star Trek book, we’re proud to announce that work has commenced on three Star Wars books and two Planet of the Apes books. Over… [more]
Sequart Releases Moving Panels: Translating Comics to Film
Sequart Organization is proud to announce the publication of Moving Panels: Translating Comics to Film, by Sequart site regular Logan Ludwig. Are comics just storyboards for films that would be too expensive to ever actually commit to… [more]
Sequart Releases The Future of Comics, the Future of Men: Matt Fraction’s Casanova
Sequart Organization is proud to announce the release of The Future of Comics, the Future of Men: Matt Fraction’s Casanova, authored by Geoff Klock (How to Read Superhero Comics and Why). Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá,… [more]
Sequart Organization is on Patreon
Sequart Organization has launched a Patreon fundraising campaign. Comics and popular culture get more respect today than ever before. Yet they still lack a culture of smart criticism, and few are taking them seriously as legitimate… [more]
It’s Newspaper Comics Week on Sequart!
Coinciding with this week’s release of a remake of Annie, based on Little Orphan Annie comic strip begun in 1924, Sequart will be celebrating newspaper comics all this week. The history of comics as a medium… [more]
She Makes Comics is Out!
Sequart Organization and Respect! Films are proud to announce the release of their latest documentary, She Makes Comics, a film spanning the history of women in comics as creators, fans, and everything in between. The… [more]
Giving Thanks
I’m not one for turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing. I’m more a vindaloo guy. But I like the ritual of giving thanks. And on this Thanksgiving, I’d like most of all to thank you, Sequart’s… [more]
Clips from the She Makes Comics World Premiere Event
On 15 November, 2014, Respect Films and Sequart hosted the world premiere of She Makes Comics at Brave New World Comics in Santa Clarita, CA. We screened the documentary for over one hundred attendees and held… [more]
One Year, One Hundred Articles
I first joined Sequart in November 2013, just under a year ago. In that time, I’ve written exactly 100 articles and contributed to two Sequart books (and several other books and papers unrelated to Sequart).… [more]
It’s Sci-Fi Week 2 on Sequart!
Sequart will be celebrating this week’s release of Chris Nolan’s Interstellar with a week of content focusing on sci-fi comics and popular culture. This is Sequart’s second annual Sci-Fi Week. Sequart ran its first Sci-Fi… [more]
New Life and New Civilizations is Available for Order by Comics Shops
New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics, edited by Joseph F. Berenato, is now available for order through Diamond Comics Distributors. New Life and New Civilizations is listed in the book section of… [more]
Sequart Turns 18
On 18 August, Sequart turned 18. And we were so busy that we didn’t notice! Thank you to all of our readers, writers, and friends. It’s been a wild ride, and it’s only just beginning!… [more]
The Anatomy of Zur-en-Arrh is Available for Order by Comics Shops
Cody Walker’s The Anatomy of Zur-en-Arrh: Understanding Grant Morrison’s Batman is now available for order through Diamond Comics Distributors. The Anatomy of Zur-en-Arrh is listed in the book section of the current Previews catalog. You… [more]
On Jack Kirby’s Bizarre 2001: A Space Odyssey Adaptation and Continuation
In May 2013, Sequart began its second themed week with Sci-Fi Week. For it, Sequart’s founder, Julian Darius, planned something fairly ambitious: a 12,000-word analysis of Jack Kirby’s wonderfully bizarre adaptation and continuation of 2001:… [more]
It’s Jack Kirby Week at Sequart!
In celebration of what would have been Jack Kirby’s 97th birthday on 28 August, Sequart will be publishing content related to Kirby all this week. Sequart uses themed weeks as a way of celebrating popular… [more]
Sequart’s Image Documentary Inspires Creator to Pitch Comic to Image (and It was Accepted!)
This is an unorthodox post, but I feel that it’s totally worth sharing, for no other reason than it makes us at Sequart feel good. Below is an email I received from comics creator Otis… [more]
Sequart Organization at San Diego Comic Con 2014
We’re excited to announce that Sequart will have quite a lot going on at this year’s San Diego Comic Con: We’ll be selling Sequart books and movies at our (very first!) SDCC small press table,… [more]
It’s Comics Artists Week at Sequart!
For no other reason than it needs to be done, all this week Sequart will be publishing content spotlighting comics artists.
Sequart Releases Diagram for Delinquents
Sequart Organization is proud to announce the release of Diagram for Delinquents, the documentary film about Fredric Wertham, directed by Robert A. Emmons, Jr. In 1950, America was in a state of panic. Juvenile delinquency… [more]
It’s Transformers Week on Sequart!
In celebration of the release of Transformers: Age of Extinction, Sequart will be publishing content related to the Transformers all this week. From their initial “Generation 1″ cartoon, toys, and comic book in the 1980s,… [more]
Sequart Announces Meet the Magus: Magic in the Work of Alan Moore
Sequart is proud to announce that it will publish Meet the Magus: Magic in the Work of Alan Moore, authored by Dr. Hannah Means-Shannon. Meet the Magus: Magic in the Work of Alan Moore explores… [more]
Sequart Releases The Anatomy of Zur-en-Arrh: Understanding Grant Morrison’s Batman
Sequart Organization is proud to announce the publication of The Anatomy of Zur-en-Arrh: Understanding Grant Morrison’s Batman, by Cody Walker. Grant Morrison has made a career of redefining heroes, but his work with Batman has… [more]
Sequart Releases When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl
Sequart Organization is proud to announce the release of When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl, by Julian Darius. The first manga widely available in English, Mai, the Psychic Girl — written… [more]
Julian Darius Surpasses One Million Words on Sequart.org
In a first for our site, founder Julian Darius’s Sequart.org word count has surpassed one million words! Add to that the books he’s written for Sequart, the pieces he’s contributed to our essay anthologies, and any… [more]