Seth
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George Sprott
Gregory Gallant
If You Don't Weaken
If You Don’t Weaken
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It's a Good Life
It’s a Good Life
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Robert Crumb
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The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
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Wimbledon Green
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- ISBN 9781496807885
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant (b. 1962), pen name Seth, emerged as a cartoonist in the fertile period of the 1980s, when the alternative comics market boomed. Though he was influenced by mainstream comics in his teen years and did his earliest comics work on Mister X, a mainstream-style melodrama, Seth remains one of the least mainstream-inflected figures of the alternative comics' movement. His primary influences are underground comix, newspaper strips, and classic cartooning.
These interviews, including one career-spanning, definitive interview between the volume editors and the artist published here for the first time, delve into Seth's output from its earliest days to the present. Conversations offer insight into his influences, ideologies of comics and art, thematic preoccupations, and major works, from numerous perspectives--given Seth's complex and multifaceted artistic endeavours. Seth's first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, announced his fascination with the past and with earlier cartooning styles. Subsequent works expand on those preoccupations and themes. Clyde Fans, for example, balances present-day action against narratives set in the past. The visual style looks polished and contemplative, the narrative deliberately paced; plot seems less important than mood or characterization, as Seth deals with the inescapable grind of time and what it devours, themes which recur to varying degrees in George Sprott, Wimbledon Green, and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.
These interviews, including one career-spanning, definitive interview between the volume editors and the artist published here for the first time, delve into Seth's output from its earliest days to the present. Conversations offer insight into his influences, ideologies of comics and art, thematic preoccupations, and major works, from numerous perspectives--given Seth's complex and multifaceted artistic endeavours. Seth's first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, announced his fascination with the past and with earlier cartooning styles. Subsequent works expand on those preoccupations and themes. Clyde Fans, for example, balances present-day action against narratives set in the past. The visual style looks polished and contemplative, the narrative deliberately paced; plot seems less important than mood or characterization, as Seth deals with the inescapable grind of time and what it devours, themes which recur to varying degrees in George Sprott, Wimbledon Green, and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.
Eric Hoffman, Vernon, Connecticut, is the author of Oppen: A Narrative, a biography of the poet George Oppen, and editor of Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard. He coedited (with Dominick Grace) Dave Sim: Conversations and Chester Brown: Conversations, both from University Press of Mississippi.|Dominick Grace, London, Ontario, Canada, is the author of The Science Fiction of Phyliss Gotlieb: A Critical Reading and an associate professor of English at Brescia University College. He coedited (with Eric Hoffman) Dave Sim: Conversations and Chester Brown: Conversations, both from University Press of Mississippi.
