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Comics, Continuity, and Complexity
Recently, I caught up on Warren Ellis’s Nextwave and Geoff Johns’s recent Green Lantern run through Blackest Night. The two works are polar opposites in terms of approaches to comics; one a...
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Kick-Ass: The Comic in Retrospect
The movie version of Kick-Ass received so much press attention that the comic can feel like a footnote. Because the movie was optioned and produced before the series was even complete, it’s easy to...
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Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #1
Over the next six months, I’ll be overseeing the end of shooting, post-production and the release of the documentary Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, following in the tradition of last year’s Grant...
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Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #2
This has been a busy week in the Captured Ghosts world. I was going to discuss the experience of filming with Warren, but I’m going to save that for next week and instead discuss our… [more]
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Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Production Journal #3
This was another busy week in the production of Captured Ghosts, with two shoot days and a bunch of editing.Over the course of the week, I cut the film down a bit more, removing some… [more]
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Why Chris Claremont’s X-Men?: A Look at Comics in Focus
Over the past two years, I’ve produced two feature length documentaries about iconic comic book writers, Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods and Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts. I’ve also thought a lot...
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Grant Morrison: The Day-Glo Years
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years writing about Grant Morrison, talking about Grant Morrison, and making a film about Grant Morrison, and it’s now time to continue that work with… [more]
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Nick Spencer on Comics vs. Creativity
Every Sunday, Sequart will be premiering an exclusive clip drawn from our extensive interviews with many of comics’ finest creators. These are previously unseen clips filmed during interviews for Grant...
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Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Kill Your Boyfriend
NOTE: Rather than start chronologically in the early ’90s, I chose to begin my exploration of Grant’s Day-Glo Years with a work that best exemplifies the themes, motifs, and energy of that era of his...
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Chris Claremont on the Original Plan for Maddy Pryor
Chris Claremont’s run on X-Men / Uncanny X-Men was a milestone achievement for Marvel and super-hero comics in general, spanning seventeen years and hundreds of stories. One of Claremont’s more...
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Robert Kirkman on Developing the Walking Dead TV Series
The Walking Dead‘s 100th issue is poised to be one of the highest selling comics in years, its blockbuster success fueled by the record-breaking TV series. Looking at it now, the show seems like a… [more]
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Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: St. Swithin’s Day
During the early ’90s, Grant Morrison was wrapping up his acclaimed runs on Doom Patrol and Animal Man and moving away from mainstream super-heroics. It was a time when an increase in self-publishing...
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Jim Shooter on Breaking into Comics
Jim Shooter wrote DC’s Legion of Super-heroes in the 1970s. What they didn’t know was that he was only 13 years old at the time. Here, Jim Shooter discusses how he became one of the… [more]
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Warren Ellis on the Future Happening Everywhere
Warren Ellis has made a career of thinking about the future. Here, he discusses the ways that the future is happening all around us, even when we’re not aware of it.What Warren thinks about the… [more]
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Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: The Mystery Play
The Mystery Play is another short-form Morrison work from the “adult comics” era of the early ’90s. It feels decidedly removed from pretty much anything Morrison has done in the past fifteen years, as...
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J.H. Williams III on Working on Seven Soldiers
Artist J.H. Williams III is one of the most innovative and acclaimed comics artists working today. Here, he discusses collaborating with writer Grant Morrison to build the unique visual style of his...
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Scott Porter on His Love of Image Comics
Scott Porter is best known as an actor from acclaimed series like Friday Night Lights and The Good Wife. But he’s also a big comics fan, particularly of Image Comics. On the black carpet for The… [more]
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Grant Morrison’s Day-Glo Years: Fantastic Four: 1234
Fantastic Four: 1234 was written at the tail end of Morrison’s Day-Glo Years, during his brief period writing for Marvel in the early 2000s. Grant has spent the vast majority of his career writing for…...
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The First Five Minutes of Our Warren Ellis Documentary
Warren Ellis sees the future. He is a comic book writer and cyberpunk philosopher living on the edge of tomorrow. He speaks to a cult audience of artists, journalists, scientists, and fans who hail...
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Grant Morrison on Experimental Writing in Doom Patrol
Grant Morrison used a variety of experimental techniques during his surrealist run on Doom Patrol. He discusses them here in a clip from the special edition of Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, now...
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