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	Seth (cartoonist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seth's first published comics work was as an illustrator on the Vortex Comics series Mister X, but he soon moved to his own series, Palookaville (published by Drawn and Quarterly), which was part of a miniature boom in non-genre alternative comics from Canada in the 1990s.
		Seth, Chester Brown, and Joe Matt not only also began their own semi-autobiographical series at the same time, but were friends and sometimes depicted each other in their stories.
		Seth's affection for early- and mid-20th century popular culture, and his relative disdain for pop culture since then, is a recurrent theme in his work, both in terms of the characters (who are often nostalgic for the period) and his artistic style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seth_(cartoonist) (567 words)

	It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Canadian cartoonist Seth (an admitted mistake of a name change enacted in the early '80s) has been writing his bittersweet autobiographical comic Palookaville on a semi-regular basis for five years now.
		Unlike other autobiographical cartoonists like Dennis Eichorn or Harvey Pekar, Seth's recent stories have not hinged on one tight narrative event in his life.
		Seth's art is perfect for the story—his drawings are clean and crisp, much like those of the gag cartoonist for whom he's searching—and it matches his struggle to find order in a disorderly world.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19748 (227 words)

	P.O.V. - Tintin and I . On Cartooning . Seth \| PBS
		Seth: Style is a funny word — we all think we know what it means because we look at a cartoonist's work and we see the evidence of it there.
		In many ways, the restrictions placed on a cartoonist when he writes (amount of text that will fit in a wood balloon or caption) and the very nature of how reading panels creates a rhythm, a cadence, in the reader's mind makes a pretty good case for comparing the two disciplines.
		Seth: "Do you have periods where you lose faith in your work?" Yes — those periods are called "every day." I find the process of cartooning a genuine struggle.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2006/tintinandi/sfartists_seth.html (4965 words)

	Eye Weekly - Good grief - 03.25.04
		With the first instalment due in stores in May, its designer -- Guelph cartoonist Seth -- reflects on the gang's legacy, and the grief at its core.
		SETH: I think what makes Peanuts different, what makes it important, is that Peanuts had a real human quality that went deeper than all the other stuff, and it was mostly based on sadness.
		Seth appears with cartoonist Chester Brown at the Rivoli, Wednesday, March 31, 6:30-8:30pm.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.25.04/city/panelist.html (853 words)

	Amazon.fr : Clyde Fans: Book 1: Livres en anglais: Seth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Seth works with a restricted palate (blue tints overlaying the simplified but realistic brushwork) printed on beige paper, which gives the book a unique, antique feel.
		The formal portraits of the main characters that frequently stare from the pages are echoed in the book's endpapers, which show the Matchcard brothers among their high school classmates.
		Telling this kind of story is a departure for Seth, who is known for his navel-gazing autobiographical comics; here he turns outward with equal success, while he continues to delve deeply into his two constant themes: nostalgia and alienation.
	www.amazon.fr /Clyde-Fans-Book-1-Seth/dp/189659784X (545 words)

	comix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		At one point in autobiographical cartoonist Seth's graphic novelIt's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, published by Drawn and Quarterly, the author recalls a quote from his childhood that he's patterned his life after.
		Seth himself admits his obsession with their work, especially the more obscure gag artists whose work appeared not in comic books or newspapers, but in high class literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Saturday Evening Post.
		Seth transcends the atypical constraints of the comic book form and tells a touching story that forces the reader to care about his quest.
	wings.buffalo.edu /publications/prodsun/old/comics/2_14_comic.html (608 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Seth, prior to Vernacular Drawings—which was published by Montreal's stellar Drawn and Quarterly, home of other great comic book artists, like Joe Sacco, Julie "Dirty Plotte" Doucet, Adrian "Optic Nerve" Tomine, Chester "Yummy Fur" Brown, and Dylan "Atlas" Horrocks—was best known for his ongoing series Palookaville.
		Even though Seth is probably known to general audiences—whether they realize it or not—through his commercial work for publications like the New York Times, Spin, Forbes, the New Yorker, the "core" of his vision is incorruptible.
		All of Seth's figures and landscapes are formal, from the period when men of all classes wore fedoras, smoked pipes (Seth's pipes are as good as Magritte's), sport coats and ties.
	www.gadflyonline.com /04-08-02/art-seth.html (877 words)

	Seth \| The A.V. Club
		The cartoonist known as "Seth"—born Gregory Gallant in 1962—first entered the collective comics consciousness toward the end of the '80s, when he started illustrating the cult science-fiction series Mister X.
		In the mid-'90s, Seth serialized arguably the peak work of the autobiographical-comics genre, It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, a graphic novel about his crippling obsession with a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist.
		Seth recently spoke with The A.V. Club about his work schedule, the state of the industry, and his persistent fascination with lost artifacts of the past.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/42628 (1801 words)

	Jeet Heer, "Seth & Nostalgia"
		As fellow cartoonist Dave Sim once noted, what is impressive is the attention Seth gives to details; even his pocket watch and fountain pen fit the part.
		Yet Seth's engagement with the past is not some private quirk, but part of a larger cultural trend whereby our ideas of history are subtly changing.
		For Seth, the past is not a refuge from the present but a way of criticizing the modern world.
	www.jeetheer.com /comics/seth.htm (1255 words)

	Bob's Comics Reviews
		Rather than one more autobio of a struggling urban cartoonist, Seth asks us to identify with a bourgeois businessman; and the voice he finds for the old man rings true: practical, a little formal, but also reflective and without bitterness.
		Seth himself is melancholic, seemingly happy only in perusing old books and magazines and wandering through run-down old manufacturing districts.
		Jim Woodring's correspondents all seem to be quirky and non-linear-- Sarah Dyer's are gushy and cute-- Dave Sim's are long-winded and argumentative-- Seth's are intense, philosophical, and devotees of dead masters.
	www.zompist.com /bob16.html (728 words)

	Quill & Quire
		Seth has filled a ledger book with the cityâs fake history, slowly sketching out its inhabitants and the stories of their lives.
		Sethâs oeuvre has earned him a reputation as one of the best narrative cartoonists in the world.
		Guelph has been Sethâs home for only three years, but he has a firm attachment to the house, partly because he moved so much as a child, from one small Ontario town to another â“ from Clinton, where he was born, to Strathroy to Tillbury.
	www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=6030 (1840 words)

	Dorothy Parker Society
		Penguin Classics called on the talents of Seth, a cartoonist best known for his graphic novels "Clyde Fans" (Drawn and Quarterly, 2004) and "Wimbledon Green" (Drawn and Quarterly, 2005).
		I think they were just so excited by what he had done with it that they decided to approach some other cartoonists to see if they could extend it into a small line approach to the (Penguin) Classics stuff.
		This is one of the two flaps by Seth in the new Portable.
	www.dorothyparker.com /portable02.html (1681 words)

	Amazon.com: Wimbledon Green: Books: Seth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Seth, known for his leisurely, meticulously crafted representations of life's minutiae, as in the serialized family saga Clyde Fans, lightens up in this delightful departure set in an alternate world in which comic-book collectors are sophisticated financiers rather than socially maladroit nerds.
		Seth's artwork is uncharacteristically and appealingly casual here but still retains the strengths on view in his more typical works: impeccable design sense, elegant wordcraft, and a distinctive, nostalgia-embracing sensibility.
		Seth dismisses this book on its own cover: "A story from the sketchbook of the cartoonist `Seth.'" In other words: this isn't a full-blown graphic novel, just a little sketchy thing or whatever.
	www.amazon.com /Wimbledon-Green-Seth/dp/1896597939 (1912 words)

	Doug Wright by Seth
		Like many successful cartoonists, doing both editorial and comic art, Doug Wright began as a "ghost", helping the late Jimmy Frise with the strip Juniper Junction, then stepped out to try several features of his own.
		Like most cartoonists, when forced to sit down and write about themselves and their work, Wright seems to have missed the point entirely.
		A lot of the cartoonists of the mid 20th century were fascinated by the machines of progress-but usually this manifested itself in a love of airplanes.
	www.wrightawards.ca /wright_speech.html (2657 words)

	Bannock, Beans And Black Tea \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		After Chris Ware, Canadian cartoonist Seth has the best design sense in comics; it's evident in the way he slips nostalgic ennui into packages that mimic the texture and tone of an old used-bookstore discovery.
		Bannock, Beans And Black Tea is drawn from stories Seth heard his father tell repeatedly, stories that seemed quaintly rustic when Seth was a child, but that he's come to see as tinged with bitterness.
		Seth's hand-lettering and thick-lined illustrations give an intentionally deceptive veneer of charm to what is in essence one old man's angry howl at God for sticking him in a home bereft of advantages.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/21335 (374 words)

	Seth Photo Gallery by Christopher Wheeler at pbase.com
		A model Seth purportedly uses to assist him in drawing cityscapes.
		I've been a fan of Seth's for a long time and didn't know he used that for reference, very interesting.
		I am a huge Seth fan - not only is he a talented cartoonist, but he's also, in my opinion, an amazing writer.
	www.pbase.com /csw62/seth (220 words)

	Sequential // Comics News & Culture from Canada
		The latest artist to receive the NYT treatment is the Canadian cartoonist Seth.
		His serialized story is set to debut Sept.17 2006 in the New York Times Magazine (a supplement available to readers of the Sunday NYT).
		Seth: As the title implies it is a work about the life of one man, George Sprott.
	sequential.spiltink.org /2006/08/seth-in-new-york-times.html (464 words)

	drawn and quarterly
		But he's undoubtedly a comic book fan, and so is Seth, so the author gives his hero the benefit of an intricate mythology that begins when young Wimbledon acquires a legendary mint collection of an elderly comics enthusiast named Wilbur R. Webb.
		In the introduction, Seth acknowledges that he was inspired by comic artists such as Dan Clowes (Ghost World, Ice Haven) and Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan,the Smartest Kid of Earth), whose novels often consist of seemingly unrelated snippets that coalesce into a satisfying whole.
		Of course, if Seth were accused of being derivative, nothing a critic could say could match the cartoonist's own tendency to besmirch his own work, which he does in the introduction: "The work is clearly sketchbook quality.
	www.drawnandquarterly.com /newsList.php?item=a453fc627ea3b4 (492 words)

	drawn and quarterly
		Disaffected by the crassness of contemporary culture Seth takes refuge in a quest to uncover the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s, but his obsession blinds him to his increasingly withdrawn lover and the quiet desperation of his family.
		Seth is fast becoming one of the most recognized talents in the field since Chris Ware.
		Seth's witty and elegant poster for a 1998 D&Q exhibition at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, CA.
	www.drawnandquarterly.com /shopCatalogLong.php?st=art&art=a3dff7dd55a576 (1508 words)

	Good Grief
		SETH: Basically I’m working with a system that decides that for me. For example, there’s a series of double-page spreads in each volume that will always be an iconic location from the strip.
		SETH: My father is, typical of a Maritimer, the kind of guy who told stories all the time.
		SETH: Comic storytelling is a really individual thing, the actual movement of the panels, the figures, how the story is told.
	theculturalgutter.com /comics/good_grief.html (4603 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Canadian cartoonists honoured in Toronto
		Established cartoonist Seth won the best book honour Saturday evening for 2004's Clyde Fans, Book One, his nostalgic drama about an elderly electric fan salesman looking back on his life and that of his brother.
		Up-and-coming cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley took the best emerging talent prize for his Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, the first in a six-book series about a 23-year-old guy ambling through his life "between jobs," playing in a rock band and dating a cute high school girl, until a mysterious new woman turns his life upside-down.
		Seth echoed O'Malley's sentiment, saying he was glad there are now two awards to celebrate the Canadian comics industry.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/05/30/dougwright050530.html (1560 words)

	NEWSARAMA
		Seth is one of the best cartoonists working today, a unique stylist whose work reveals a fascination with the look and feel of a time long past.
		Both are published by Drawn and Quarterly and are highly recommended as entertaining, enlightening and elegant works that expand the possibilities of the artform.
		Seth: Well, I think that with any of these family projects where your trying to get down the stories of a family member, it came about without any real concrete plans of where it was going.
	www.newsarama.com /Creator_Owned/Seth/seth.html (1054 words)

	Wimbledon Green » PopCultureShock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		During one of the many shorter stories that make up Canadian cartoonist Seth's new book, "Wimbledon Green", one character says of his comic book collecting colleagues, "For a bunch of guys who like 'good vs. evil' stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes".
		Cartoonist Seth (the writer-artist behind the "Palookaville" series and its serialized dramas "Clyde Fans" and "It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken") unveils the story of his title character in a series of recollections shared by his colleagues and rivals.
		Fans of Seth's previous works will recognize the cartoonist's nostalgia for the early decades of the last century, a period with which the artist's elegantly simple style is a perfect fit.
	www.popcultureshock.com /reviews.php?id=5234 (532 words)

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		I think that probably is true of most alternative cartoonists in that, as their tastes broaden as they get older, they've already been trapped into being cartoonists by the stuff they loved when they were kids.
		One thing that the second generation of cartoonists, starting with Crumb, had, that the first generation really never had as far as I can tell, is a mature conception of what constitutes seriousness.
		I'm not trying to attack that entire generation of cartoonists, but one thing that the second generation brought to the medium was a coherent conception of what constitutes seriousness -- which doesn't always necessarily make for good work, but it's hard to think that much work could be good without that consideration, either.
	www.tcj.com /2_archives/i_seth.html (3493 words)

	The Official Peanuts Website - NEWS
		Born Gregory Gallant on September 16th, 1962 in Clinton, a small town in south Ontario, Seth is an emotional observer, deeply moved by the forgotten details of everyday life.
		A fan of Peanuts since childhood, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in the early 1980s.
		Drawing deeply from this disparate group of inspirations Seth has distilled one of the most distinctive and recognizable illustrating styles of the past decade and his sophisticated style has been sought by The Washington Post, Details, National Post, Spin, The New York Times, Saturday Night, and the New Yorker.
	www.unitedmedia.com /comics/peanuts/news/news_042005.html (1361 words)

	Amazon.com: Clyde Fans: Book-1: Books: Seth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Seth takes us through this man's morning routine while introducing us to an involved landscape of his home, surrounding streets and long-since defunct company office/showroom and store room.
		Seth must be a 1950's buff because the detail is incredible.
		What's worth knowing is that Seth masterfully depicts these two characters with stark dialogue and a palette composed almost exclusively of blue, fl, and gray.
	www.amazon.com /Clyde-Fans-Book-1-Seth/dp/189659784X (2092 words)

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