You know there’s going to be a story when you’re told, flat out, that the protagonist is going to go insane. I feel like for every detail I catch in my reading of Jerusalem, there…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: A Host of Angles

This is an experiment, you understand. I haven’t written for Sequart in quite some time and in addition to other articles I want to write, I’ve decided I wanted to try something I haven’t really…

Source: A Journey Through Alan Moore’s Jerusalem: Work in Progress

In the second part of this article, we looked at the challenges that faced each artist-figure in Phoenix: Karma. Now, in the final part of this article, we will look at how they come to…

Source: On the Art and Cycle of Proper Suffering: The Artist-Figure in Phoenix: Karma Part 3

In the first part of this article, we looked at the beginnings of the artist-figure Tezuka Osamu, the cultural time period that informed his work, the era he chose to create Phoenix: Karma in and…

Source: On the Art and Cycle of Proper Suffering: The Artist-Figure in Phoenix: Karma Part 2

It is neither a new nor a culturally specific idea that art is created through suffering: that the figure of the artist is an individual who must experience great ordeals in order to accomplish his…

Source: On the Art and Cycle of Proper Suffering: The Artist-Figure in Phoenix: Karma

The next segment of The Sandman Overture Issue #1 doesn’t have a very auspicious beginning.  Pages twenty-five and twenty-six open up into a spread with Morpheus flying towards his Castle and his Dreaming kingdom: now…

Source: Flowers, Fire, and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Overture #1, Part 3

In the next part of The Sandman Overture Issue #1, we now get to focus on Morpheus’ tools in trade: dreams. After transitioning to page fourteen, what we have waiting for us is something that…

Source: Flowers, Fire, and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Overture #1, Part 2

An overture is traditionally the opening or introduction to an opera. Yet if anything in the past twenty-five or so years of the comics medium can be compared to an opera–as a masterpiece made up…

Source: Flowers, Fire, and Dreams in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: Overture #1

In the comics medium, a spread is usually an image that takes up two or more pages in both volume and sheer scope. That is what most fans and comics scholars would first think when…

Source: Sharing the Love From Ground Zero: Spread by Justin Jordan and Kyle Strahm

Julian Darius, in a response to a comment of mine in his article “On Underworld Unleashed, Precursor to Kingdom Come” explains that Reconstructionism with regards to the superhero comics genre is a term coined by…

Source: Revisionism Comes to a Silver Age: Or Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?