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Seth <1962-> |
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Seth : conversations / / edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace |
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Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Conversations with comic artists series |
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LIT017000LCO006000BIO001000 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Collection of interviews originally published in various sources. |
Includes index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chronology""; ""Interview""; ""Michael Strafford / 1985""; ""An Interview with Seth""; ""Dylan Williams / 1995""; ""An Interview with Seth""; ""Bryan Miller / 2004""; ""Seth Interview""; ""Dave Sim / 2005""; ""Retro Man""; ""Gerald Hannon / 2006""; ""On Cartooning""; ""Rebecca Bengal / 2006""; ""Talking to Seth""; ""Thom Ernst / 2009""; ""Comics Reporter Sunday Interview: Seth""; ""Tom Spurgeon /2009""; ""Interview with Seth""; ""Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace / 2013""; ""Index""; |
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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 commix, 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 |
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Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, announced his fascination with the past and with earlier cartooning styles. Subsequent works expand on those preoccupation 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"-- |
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