05:22:00 am, by ComicList |
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Media Release -- Sequart and Respect Films are proud to announce their upcoming documentary about the history of Image Comics! (A Kickstarter campaign has been created to help fund the project.)
Media Release -- Just in time for the holidays, Sequart Research & Literacy Organization's entire book line is now available in revised editions featuring significantly lower cover prices. Specifically, thanks to hooking up with Amazon.com's cut-out-the-middle-man company CreateSpace, all of Sequart's books are, from now on, $7 to $8 dollars cheaper than ever before! (Also, each of the new editions features a revised cover and a cleaner, more readable interior.)
05:19:00 am, by ComicList |
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Media Release -- Sequart and Respect Films are proud to announce a new documentary film, the first in a new series that will take advantage of new forms of distribution. A Kickstarter campaign has been created to help fund the project.
Media Release -- Sequart Research & Literacy Organization (in conjunction with Respect! Films) has a couple of exciting Warren Ellis announcements:
Media Release -- Sequart is in the home stretch of the Kickstarter campaign for Diagram for Delinquents, our upcoming documentary film about the most hated man in comics history: psychiatrist Fredric Wertham.
07:14:00 pm, by ComicList |
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Chuck's Critiques by Charles LePage
Keeping The World Strange: A Planetary Guide
Edited by Cody Walker
Sequart Research And Literacy Organization
Keeping The World Strange: A Planetary Guide is a worthy companion to Warren Ellis's Planetary series. Planetary was a complex story, filled with large consignments of references to other comic books, popular culture and "real world" events, so a book outlining and explaining those references is definitely welcome. The appendix which lists a suggested reading order for Planetary is worth the price of admission. My only annoyances while reading the essays were the repeated negative references to the 1980s leaders of the U.S. and U.K. For instance, Julian Darias in his essay refers to the 1980s as "a dark time politically in the U.S. under Reagan but even more so in the U.K. under Thatcher." While I understand how politics of that decade influenced comic book creators in both countries, to declare Reagan as "senile" and Thatcher as "mad," only to leave the reader on their own to research the claims, in a book designed to "not only provide analysis for this historically important series but (to) spur readers to be archaeologists of their own fiction" is an error that stands out like a firefly at night. Nonetheless, I highly recommend this collection for anyone who has read Planetary or who is a fan of Warren Ellis.
05:25:00 am, by ComicList |
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05:45:00 am, by ComicList |
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Media Release -- Sequart Research & Literacy Organization's Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide is now available for order through comic shops (use Diamond order code MAR111401). The book is currently listed in the books section of March's Previews catalog (page 347) and is set to hit stores in late May.

